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Improvements for swimming

Former Member over 12 years ago

I know people must complain about this all the time - but I find it absolutely incredulous that I can have a good swimming stroke, I can spend $400 on a Garmin 910, it can give completely incorrect data over swim distance, laps and stroke on Garmin Connect - and you haven't implemented a simple edit feature. This is crazy! And for the life of me, I can't think of any commercial reason that Garmin wouldn't want to do it. It can only be down to a huge oversight, and now laziness in terms of correcting it.

I know this board is for Garmin Connect - but on the 910, the inability for me to select a stroke for the whole swim is equally ridiculous. And it could be fixed with a simple firmware upgrade.

None of this makes any sense to me. I'm so disappointed in this top of the line unit after a few swims with it :(

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Completely agree with you.

My case is quite similar. I swim 1-2km every few days and have been doing so for the past 4 months. I perform freestyle using the TIS technique in a 25m length pool. I often find that on the turn it either misses or counts an extra 25m leg, so I usually have an inaccurate distance that is above or below 25-150m.

This really needs to be fixed, this watch is making me look a fool to my friends. Interim solution? Don't use the watch for swimming.

0 GARYNOLAN over 12 years ago

I completely agree. Was expecting that with the next update to Garmin Connect that they would add this feature. Instead they add....Heat maps? OpenStreetMap? Are you kidding me? Please Garmin, fix the issues that are affecting your user base. I don't think anyone was out there wishing for heat maps.

0 SLAMPOST over 12 years ago

I also agree. There are issues - doubling distance , wrong recognition of stroke type etc.
Please, fix this!

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Hi there - not sure if anyone from Garmin will read this but I just got the 910 as a birthday present on the weekend.
Tried in the pool for the first time today and was a tad disappointed hence me searching for a thread like this! I used the lap button at the end of each interval but it seems to have missed a number of intervals/lengths - so the distance was all out.
I realise swim technique is key to the stoke identifier, but seeing as swim technique is so individual - it would be a great option if Garmin would allow the editing of the program post workout - it should of course id this as a 'post-workout' change (for all you coaches out there!) - but for us mere amateurs, a bit more versatility in the 'post-production' phase would be welcome.
I'll see how it goes Thursday (next swim).

0 abasinska over 12 years ago

i totally support you guys. I really think this improvement is a) needed, b) mentioned by everyone tracking swims with 910xt, c) relatively easy to implement. it's also quite difficult for me to understand why Garmin focuses on the nice-looking changes (like the heat maps), yet not very useful for majority of their users and cannot improve on this simple issue.

would be great to at least know their view on this - do they plan to add it someday or this is totally out of scope. i know i sound like frustrated spinster :), but like all of you i invested quite a lot in something that does not meet my basic expectations.

0 swimark over 12 years ago

I too would like to have the ability to edit the data that is uploaded to Garmin Connect. I use the Garmin Swim and it does not always record the data correctly.
Some things that need to be edited are;
-the stroke type
-fixing an incorrect lap count in a specific interval
-merging laps or splitting laps

Any word from Garmin on implementing this highly requested feature?
What is the point of recording, uploading then viewing the data if its bad? For that matter what is the point of using (or buying) the product in the first place?
There should be a way to edit this erroneous data.