I want to commend the Garmin team who designed and created the Garmin Swim watch! You did an excellent job with a great product! I’m really glad I purchased it since it’s worth every penny. When I heard of it I wanted it so bad and now that I have it, it’s the best swimming training tool I have ever owned! It works great and I really love it! :)
I highly recommend it. I’ve used it now for 2 weeks, here’s a link to a 10k session I did on a Saturday in a 50 meter pool: http://connect.garmin.com/splits/203976202. Click the black arrows under the interval column for detailed interval information where there is one record for each of the 200 pool lengths. This is definite proof it’s an excellent product!
I’ve swam a total of four 3k sessions and two 10k sessions and it recorded every length very accurately. I know that if you don’t glide as you efficiently should before starting to swim each length, it might confuse the watch or if you aren’t consistent in your strokes it will also give bad data. You don’t have to be an Olympic or expert swimmer for it to work, as with any computer, garbage in means garbage out, so if you give it bad input, obviously you will get bad output.
I’ve only seen a minor glitch with the average pace per 100mts with the 10k sessions; this didn’t happen with the 3K ones. I don’t care about this or any other insignificant bug, since all the positive useful stuff outshines them all by a landslide. The software might have a few bugs but no one is perfect and it certainly isn’t easy to build something like this. Last but not least, it’s unfair to criticize the designers when they have done an outstanding job! I really hope they get rich with this cool invention! :cool:
