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No Infinite Pool (Static Swimming)?

It would be great if it was added the possibility to set pool size as Infinite as there as Infinite pools and static/tethered swimming belts.

This is something I think would take 3 seconds for the programmers to add.

Tks.

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tmk2 over 4 years ago +1

As a workaround you could use open water swimming with GPS turned off.
BTA80 over 1 year ago in reply to - +1

Yes - the Swim 2 can record open water swim distance with the GPS off. I've been using it that way for months and it's pretty accurate. I just got a Forerunner 255 and it can NOT do this. Distance…
BTA80 over 1 year ago in reply to - +1

2.80

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0 fabionr77 over 4 years ago

Oh, and before people think I'm referring to those aesthetically gorgeous pools with no borders (that people call infinite border pool); it's not that. I refer to those small pools built for training simulating a river stream so you actually swim forever without actually going anywhere. Static/tethered swimming is the poor man's version of the same concept. In both cases it would make sense to set pool size as infinite.

0 tmk2 over 4 years ago

As a workaround you could use open water swimming with GPS turned off.

0 6370926 over 4 years ago in reply to tmk2

i will try this tomorrow, open water without GPS and talk later the results

0 fabionr77 over 4 years ago in reply to tmk2

Tks for the tip. Works like a charm.

0 Jemima_Falafel over 3 years ago in reply to fabionr77

Hey! I tried this too but where is it getting the distance metric from? I did two 40 minute swims and with the ‘GPS on’ it marked around 1600m and with ‘GPS off’ more like 2100m. I know the ‘GPS on’ metric must be wrong, but the other one? Where is it calculated from...?

0 PG over 3 years ago in reply to Jemima_Falafel

It seems that the measurement with GPS off comes from accelerometers. It is good news for endless pool guys, but it is terrible for me, resulting doubled distance measurement for all of my open water swims.

0 clenzcesar over 3 years ago

Were you able to record distance with GPS off? I have tried, but did not work with my Forerunner 935. Maybe it only work with a newer model.

0 SARAHLUCERO over 3 years ago

I will try this. Thanks. It would be nice if Garmin just added that as a workout feature so we don’t have to change settings

0 1091083 over 3 years ago in reply to tmk2

Yes but impossible to create a workout for use in the Open water activity.

0 8122588 over 2 years ago

I think there is a gap in the market for another piece of equipment.

Some sort of guage that measured and tracked instantaneous force in kg over time then translated that into a swim pace.