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Heartrate is way off during Swimming and Treadmill activities after 6.80 update

Ever since updating my VA4 to 6.80 I've noticed some major errors with heartrate during manually selecting Swimming and Treadmill activities.  

For example when on a treadmill set to manual with a 8% incline, 3.8mph at 25 minutes I start the Treadmill activity on the VA4.  I don't change the treadmill's settings at all and expect my heartrate to gradually increase as time goes on.  However, my heartrate stays at 65-90 bmp for the first roughly 19 minutes then around 20 minutes it suddenly jumps to around 140 for the last 5 minutes of the workout.  

While using the Swimming activity I have found that I can no longer get my heartrate above 150 bpm.  In the past I could push myself and occasionally get to 165-170 bmp.  Now I just sit around 120-145 most the swim according to the watch. 

Either I became really fit overnight or this 6.80 has some bugs.  Maybe the Swimming activity is accurate but the Treadmill activity is so far off it can't possibly be right.