Connect once. Every ride feeds the plan.
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Connect Suunto
One authorization from your Suunto account — it's also how you sign in, so there's no Strava step in front of it. From then on, rides that reach the Suunto app come across on their own. Nothing to export, no files to move.
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Every ride gets read
We read the recorded file for each ride, second by second, rather than its averages. Road, mountain, gravel, cyclocross, indoor, and e-bike rides all count. Runs, hikes, and swims are skipped by activity type, so their files are never downloaded and nothing from them is stored.
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A plan gets built around it
With a power meter, your FTP is estimated from your own power curve. Without one, the plan anchors to heart rate in beats per minute. Miss a week or get sick and the plan restructures around what actually happened; that rebuild is a Coach-tier feature, and on the free tier the plan still rolls forward daily.
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The session lands on your watch
Planned rides go to your Suunto account as SuuntoPlus Guides, and the watch picks them up on its next sync with the Suunto app. Intervals and repeats come across intact, with targets as watt or heart-rate ranges plus cadence.
The plan rebuilds itself when a week falls apart. Your watch records the ride and runs the session; the Suunto app keeps doing its job.
What syncs in, and what goes back to your watch.
The connection reads your cycling workouts and sends planned sessions back as SuuntoPlus Guides. No ride you recorded is ever changed.
| Data | What it does |
|---|---|
| Ride files | The recorded file for every ride, read second by second |
| Power & heart rate | Used to estimate FTP and track training load |
| Every cycling activity | Road, MTB, gravel, cyclocross, indoor, and e-bike rides all count |
| Structured workouts | Planned rides as SuuntoPlus Guides, intervals and repeats included |
| Target ranges | Watts converted from your FTP, or bpm, plus cadence |
History note: the last six months come across on connect. Older rides come in as ride-file uploads, deduplicated against your Suunto rides.
Compatible with
Quick answers.
Which Suunto watches does this work with?
For reading rides, any Suunto that syncs to the Suunto app. We read from your Suunto account rather than from the watch, so a ride arrives once your watch has synced it. Planned sessions need a watch that runs SuuntoPlus Guides.
How much of my ride history do you get?
The last six months of rides come across when you connect, and every new ride after that. Anything older arrives as a ride-file upload, and a ride reaching us twice is recognized as the same ride and counted once.
Can you send workouts to my Suunto watch?
Yes. Each planned ride goes to your Suunto account as a SuuntoPlus Guide, and the watch picks it up the next time it syncs with the Suunto app. The Guide carries the session's intervals and repeats, with targets as watt or heart-rate ranges plus cadence.
Why do my targets show watts instead of a percentage of FTP?
A SuuntoPlus Guide takes absolute targets, so the plan's percentages are converted into watts from your FTP before the session is sent. Power targets need a power meter paired to your watch. Without one, the same session goes across as heart-rate ranges in beats per minute.
Which other services send workouts to a Suunto?
Several. Suunto publishes its list of SuuntoPlus Guide partners, and intervals.icu, TrainingPeaks and Nolio are among them. They share the same delivery route to the watch. What differs is what writes the plan at the other end: ours is built from the rides your Suunto recorded and rebuilt when a week falls apart.
Do I need a power meter?
No. Without one, your plan, your analysis and the targets on your watch anchor to heart rate. With one, we estimate your FTP from the power curve in your ride history, and the watch gets watt targets.
Do my runs and swims count toward my plan?
No. We read cycling only. Runs, hikes and swims are skipped by activity type before any file is fetched, so a hard run day is invisible to your training load here. If you train for triathlon, tell the coach about the run and swim load the plan cannot see.
What are you allowed to do with my Suunto account?
Read your cycling workouts and send planned sessions as SuuntoPlus Guides. Nothing you have ridden is ever edited or deleted. Disconnect any time from Account → Data sources: that revokes our access at Suunto and deletes the rides that came from it. Deleting your AdaptCycling account removes your data here and revokes our access too.
Does this cost extra?
No. The Suunto connection is part of the free tier, alongside your training analysis and one active plan. The $15/mo Coach tier adds adaptive week rebuilding, the AI coach chat, and post-ride analysis.
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