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Tracking Distance for Ocean Swimming - Forerunner45

I have a Forerunner45 and want to use it to track my ocean swimming distances with the GPS... What activity profile should I use, is there a way I can do this??

0 jim_m_58 over 5 years ago

The 45,245 and 645 don't support Open Water Swimming. That's available on the 735, 935 and 945.

You could try another activity, but GPS won't have the smarts to understand what's going on when your arm in under the water (much of the time)

0 tmk2 over 5 years ago

As jim_m_58 already stated, the FR45 lacks open water swimming mode. A practical workaround would be putting the watch under your swimming cap and use "Other" profile, with GPS turned on. This way you'd lose stroke metrics, but the GPS track should be decent.

0 lytleric over 5 years ago in reply to tmk2

Will it still pick up the GPS signal under a swimming cap?

0 tmk2 over 5 years ago in reply to lytleric

Yes, as long as you keep it above water surface.