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swim workout - it's skipping rest sometimes in sets

sndpl75
8 months ago

Hi,

when I create a workout for swimming for example:

- 300m freestyle

- 30 sec rest

- 6x100 freestyle each 2 min

- 30 sec

- 200m freestyle

And start the workout, I swim the 300m, press lap, have a 30 sec rest, start with the first 100m, when I then press the lap key and swim for example 1:30, I should have 30 sec rest, but sometimes it just skips the rest and starts the second 100m and when I finish that one I have the rest of the first and the second one since I swam both faster then 2 min. The strange part is that when I start the workout again and just press the lap key still the first 100m it works as aspected.

So the frustrating thing is that I can't seem to reproduce it to report it as a bug, since it's not always the first set where it happens. This morning it happend in the third set, but it's always just one set that goes wrong. 

Are more people having this issue with your own created workouts ?

  • 0 8 months ago

    Yes same issue, I thought it was because I was accidentally double pressing the lap key. Happens randomly, but not very often. 

  • 0 8 months ago
    sndpl75 said:
    I swim the 300m, press lap, have a 30 sec rest, start with the first 100m,

    Are you pressing Lap again to start the first 100m?

    Maybe check the workout setup? For me it should be like this:

    Swim 300m

    Rest 30

    Repeat 6 times:

    Swim 100

    Rest 30

    Swim 200m

    Lap has to be pressed at the end of each swim and before starting the next swim.

    I usually swim in the sea so haven't been in a pool for ages but pretty sure the Rest counter will start immediately you press the lap button after a swim set and then you need to press it again to start the next swim set after your rest period. I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong.

  • 0 8 months ago

    Also no auto rest enabled. And Yes I press the lap button every time of each swim (doing that since the fenix 5 :) since the auto rest isn't that accurate ). For the set I use the fixed repetition (so on a fixed time), so start at each 2 min not a fixed rest.

    But as said it's "sometimes", this morning it work as it should. I was hoping to find a pattern so it could be fixed.

  • 0 5 months ago

    Hello, I have the same problem on my new Instict 3 Solar and I saw exactly the same happening to my friend with Fenix 7. So it must be a common bug in some shared part of the software. It seems to occur on a completely random basis. I even tried to go through the workout while sitting at home. Sometimes it skips the rest, sometimes not. Next time it occurs at different spots in the workout. It happens with fixed rests as well send off time. It happens in repetitions as well in single intervals.

    And before you ask: I tried it with different swim workouts that I have prepared for my old Swim 2. They work perfectly on Swim 2. (Well, they work on Swim 2 now after more than three years of Garmin fixing it, but that's a different story.)