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When Does Timer start and stop?

Former Member over 11 years ago

Hello guys, I have just bought the watch and already have 2 questions:

Does the actual lap counter start when you hit start or when you push off the wall?
What about the lap end? Does it matter if I take too long to hit the pause button?

Let's try to picture a situation: I hit start then, by some reason I just don't push off immediately, but wait 2 seconds. Then, I push off.
When I arrive at the wall, I take 2 seconds to hit the pause button.

1) Will the watch trim off those 4 seconds of "inactivity"?

2) I swim at a 25m x 12,5m. And, for warm-ups and medley the coach uses the pool's width, rather than length. So what should I do if the watch doesn't support shorter than 17 meters? Are you guys considering adding such pool lengths? Perhaps with a manual stroke selection mode. I mean, the watch will already know what type of stroke is coming, it doesn't need time to assess the stroke type. Thus, allowing for shorter lengths, right?

You would have options (crawl, back, ***, fly, medley)

Many Thanks in advance. I am excited for joining this community.

Luiz Saluti

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

1. The timer starts and stops when you press the buttons, so no it will not trim the 4 seconds.

2. The watch can only deal with one pool length for a given workout. Even if the pool was 25m x 20m you'd still have a problem.

Good luck

0 gildenhuys over 11 years ago

Thanks for your interest, Luiz.

The only thing I have to add to the response above is for Question 1. There is a "Countdown Start" option that you might like. Go MENU > SWIMMING > COUNTDOWN START > ENABLE. With this enabled, after a rest when you press Pause to resume swimming, you will get a 3...2...1... countdown, and then the watch unpauses. Some swimmers like this because they can press the button, then get ready to push off and time the push-off to be right as the watch tone sounds to indicate back to swim mode. Maybe try it?

Personally, I have become far too accustomed to pushing off as I press un-pause so I can't seem to remember to wait for the count-in. :-)

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Personally, I have become far too accustomed to pushing off as I press un-pause so I can't seem to remember to wait for the count-in. :-)

lol - could do wonders for your CSS ;)

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

1. The timer starts and stops when you press the buttons, so no it will not trim the 4 seconds.

2. The watch can only deal with one pool length for a given workout. Even if the pool was 25m x 20m you'd still have a problem.

Good luck

Understood.

To me, unfortunately the countdown would not be an option, as I am always depending on the coach for lengths starts and rest time.

To me it seems logical that, as having an accelerometer, you can set the watch to "ready for any movement" using start, and having it start the counter when you push. Also, when you hit the wall, it can detect the inativity, so when you pause, it would shave off the time from button press to inactivity.

That would be an awesome feature to have.

What do you developers think?

By the way, even though I have to set it off manually I am just about loving the watch right now. Awesome job you guys.

Luiz Saluti

0 gildenhuys over 11 years ago

We are aware of the desire for this type of "auto-pause/unpause" feature. We have discussed it before and likely will do so again.

It's great to hear that you are loving the watch!

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

We are aware of the desire for this type of "auto-pause/unpause" feature. We have discussed it before and likely will do so again.

It's great to hear that you are loving the watch!

That's cool.

Maybe, as a starting point, we could have a garmin connect toggle. Real time vs user time.
Think about it guys.
The watch would be a extremely precise tool for measuring single lengths where speed is the actual focus.

Luiz Saluti