Running instead of OWS? Will it work?

Hi there!

I've got a question - I don't have hrm-swim but I'd like to know my heart rate during open water swimming (even from my wrist).
Would it be possible to use 'running" activity instead of "open water" to get the heart rate and distance?

I realise that some typical swimming statistic like swolf won"t be availabe but how about gps?
Does it work different during opwn water swimming than during running?

Thanks for your suggestions
:)

0 TrippyZ over 6 years ago

SWOLF is a lap swimming statistic. The OWS mode is designed to deal with the broken nature of the GPS signal when swimming. Therefore Running mode is likely to perform poorly. I recommend purchasing the HRM-TRI, though it is quite expensive.

Of course the HR reading itself is likely to be either poor or terrible anyhow.

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

Hi,
yes, I've tried that, it works(you see your HR real time), but it gives you totally unrealistic distances. Algorithms are different. What I've been using successfully for years now is the Schosche Rhythm next to the watch. Perfect reading, real time, which is IMPORTANT for me, as I swim sometimes in very cold waters, and I need to know my HR to gauge my efforts.
pretty minimal, yet effective solution.
Dream of the day when they will enable OHR for swimming.
cheers,
Bob

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

Tried pool swim, it SEES Schosche as external HR, but it did not saved it in GC even though I selected it as a datafield.
again, OWS, no issues(as of September ). Now I'm thinking after 11.0 update pool swim did not save the Schosche in GC.
Cheers,
Bob

0 tmk2 over 6 years ago

Pool swim won't provide distance nor GPS track.

0 KrzysiekJar over 6 years ago

Thanks a lot.
It is a pity that it doesn't work and that I cannot save hr data (even from Schosche Rhythm) to GC
:(