Open water swimming accuracy bad

Hi to all,

does anyone have also issues with open water swimming as me? As I started this year my open water activities with FW 6.60 and till now with 7.00 it is not that reliable as it was last year till my last activity in June and FW 4.0.

Just to mention - I swim consequent about 2km without stop with the same freestyle technique and do fix GPS before going to water.

I know that since then there has been happened a lot of changes.

Bests Regards,

Mihail

0 trux over 5 years ago

I did not have the chance yet doing open water swim after the upgrade to v7.00, but with the older versions it happened up and then to me too. When I saw the GPS did not work well, I've simply stopped and waited for the satellite signal with the hand raised (and often it helped for the rest of the swim), or have put the watch under my swim cap, if the previous waiting did not help. Also using the option GPS+Glonass helps a bit to get the GPS signal quicker, due to the bigger number of available satellites.

0 Ray7443 over 2 years ago

Same problem with a Fenix 6s solar. Yesterday it stopped recording about 200 metres earlier from the point i pressed stop. The watch stopped at 722m not 1K, I was expecting.

Watch settings were GPS / Galileo at 1 second interval. I start the gps when getting changed (outside) so its about 5 min before i enter the water ready to press GO.

What I was not expecting was the watch to give me inaccurate distance for my turn then stop recording half way back. Battery was OK and the screen was locked.

I only swim front crawl and the sea was flat.

The other day it recorded 720m but downloading the gpx files and uploaded it to the Ordinance Survey Map and it recorded 940m. As it is the official UK mapping tool I was able to check the positions on a map. I swim between 2 groynes so I know the distance I am expecting.