HI,
So I bought a garmin swim. New product, always a gamble. I need it to do one thing accurately, and at that one thing it's hopeless.
I swam my usual 2000 meters in a 25 m pool (yeah I know a pain but it's winter and the 25 is heated). The first few laps were fine, then I started getting extra laps. Turns out it's adding about 1 in 5, and when I uploaded my data it has misidentified my stroke on a bunch of laps.
Ok my technique sucks, but this is ridiculous. If garmin can't find a solution to this I'm going to have to sell it on.
Furthermore I can't see how I can edit the swim to fix the laps. At least if I can delete the extra laps I'd be able to calculate how far I've gone after the fact.
Garmin should add a stroke count option. That would allow me to just divide by my average strokes/length and also make it useful for tethered and open swimming.
Right now I'm wishing I'd saved my $155 and bought a $35 manual lap counter. Really disappointed.