You can manually enter an activity, such as swimming, but you can't modify the distance of a workout recorded by your 310. If you're swimming indoors, don't bother wearing the 310 since it won't pick up a reliable GPS signal, and it won't record your HR. I guess you could time your swim with it.
Unfortunately, if you do enter a manual activity, the distance units must be miles or kilometers. Yards and meters are not yet available for a manual entry.
You can manually enter an activity, such as swimming, but you can't modify the distance of a workout recorded by your 310. If you're swimming indoors, don't bother wearing the 310 since it won't pick up a reliable GPS signal, and it won't record your HR. I guess you could time your swim with it.
Unfortunately, if you do enter a manual activity, the distance units must be miles or kilometers. Yards and meters are not yet available for a manual entry.
Whether indoors or outdoors, the only thing you can do with the 310 is to record time. It is useful for setting up a workout such as 20 x 100m on 1:45 as it's easier to keep track of the intervals.
Others have suggested wearing the 310 under a swim cap to get a GPS signal, outdoors, that is usable.
Wearing under a swimming cap does not work in a pool or OWS. This needs to be editable manually, as you cannot accurately calculate weekly distance totals. This should be an easy software fix, and essential for proper operation of the equipment purchased.
Hi, the original post was made for me by Garmin support.
I swam 2km and was using the 310xt simply as a stop watch, recording lap time every 500 min.
My question is how to import the data to Garmin Connect.
What data do you want to import? As we said in the replies to the OP, the 310 won't record distance indoors, and the HRM doesn't work underwater, and you can't manually edit your distances of a recorded workout.
So they only thing you can upload are time splits every 500 m (I assume you mean meters, and not minutes, unless you're a really slow swimmer :o). But if that's what you want, you should be able to import this just like any other activity.
Since the 310 is only useful as a timing device in water, it would be useful to be able to manually edit the distance covered. Ideally for each lap, but definitely the overall distance.
The swims I have uploaded to GTC and GC both show distances approximately double what was actually done. This skews the totals.
It's the little things like this that prevent me from committing to either GTC or GC. With SportTracks and RunSaturday, it's easy to input the corrected information.
By this, I am referring to both the total distance and the distance per lap time.
Garmin connect seems to be able to import the times including lap times but does not give an option to input the distances - which makes the times of little value.
I can make a manual input, but this does not import the total time and lap times and whilst I can input the total time there does not appear to be any way of inputting lap times.
By this, I am referring to both the total distance and the distance per lap time.
Any suggestions?
Until such time as the developers provide the ability to manually input/adjust recorded data you have to use something like SportTracks on your PC (Mac apps such as Ascent, iTrain etc) or RunSaturday on the internet.
My guess is that whatever Garmin do, they will not reach the same level of functionality as these programs.
I wanted to input the swim lap distance too, as I had been able to do with my Polar S725X.
As mentioned somewhere (in this forum I think) but not in this thread, the Garmin data files are XML. You can edit them in Wordpad (or an XML editor).
You can edit the recorded ("0.0000") distance in the <DistanceMeters> tag for each lap, e.g.
You only need to edit the <DistanceMeters> which follow shortly after a <Lap StartTime="...> tag, as the <Trackpoint> distances don't affect the lap length which is all we are after.
So far I have been:
1. loading Garmin data to the PC via connect as usual
2. exporting the swim
3. copy the swim exported .tcx file (so there is a backup of the original)
4. edit the lap distances (with wordpad or other, note: notepad doesn't play nice)
5. delete the activity from GTC (and the online version)
6. Import (or manual upload for online app) the edited activity
And you should see the entered lap distances - and hence total distance
