Last night in my masters swimming group my watch told me that I had a distance of 4.2km after an hour. My stroke rate (correctly) was 17.
However, when I checked the settings the pool was listed as 50 metres. Why did the watch not pick this up? Or was it actually recording two laps as one? 4.2 seems a bit much but 2.1 seems too little. I also noticed that my calories did not transfer to join the overall amount. I did change the settings to make the pool 25 meters and it readjusted the total number of metres (however the settings revert back to 50 metres).
In comparison I swam 2.5km per hour for two hours in rough sea on Monday. The second hour was particularly horrible, so I'd expect my pool time to be higher. It's not good to compare two different environments.
Can I set the watch to expect all pools to be 25m?
