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Questions regarding the Garmin swim

Former Member over 10 years ago

Hi,

I swim on average 6-8 KM per week and my workouts include freestyle and breaststroke, I have a few questions:

I've read mixed reviews, mostly good reviews but also some bad ones, from your experience how accurate is actually the watch?
In some of my workouts I do the pyramid which includes doing intervals of 100 free->100breast->200free->100breast->300free and then backwards. I do this workout without taking a rest between each interval. Will I need to press the pause button when changing stroke style, or will the watch recognize me changing stroke style and divide the whole thing to different segments based on each style?
I've read the other thread regarding a new version of the watch and didn't find an answer. As of today, does anybody know if there is a new version expected soon?

Thanks for all the help
Adam

0 gildenhuys over 10 years ago

Hi Adam,

I'm from Garmin so please keep that in mind. I mostly want to address your second bullet about how the watch functions. For a swim set like the example above, you could do the whole thing without pressing Pause and at the end on Garmin Connect you would see one interval 1600 m long but each length would be tagged on GC with the stroke type. So you would see 4 lengths of free, 4 lengths of brst, etc. If you wanted to see each stroke type as a separate interval then you would need to press Pause/Unpause when you change.

In terms of accuracy, if you are regularly swimming 6-8 km per week then I expect the accuracy will be very very good for you.

And I can't comment on the rumours of a new version of the watch.