I totally see your point. But following that logic I should just stop wearing a watch all together. The point of using something like the VA 3 or any other fitness / activity tracker is to log your activity....
Anyway - I think they should get rid of IM all together and replace it with some sort of system where you get points for all your activities- based on intensity, time etc.
That way I could compete against my friends who do CrossFit while I like to swim, run and hike.
That would be awesome IMHO
Timeline: Totally agree. Please let me know what app (Garmin IQ?) you are talking about.
tmk17: I have not seen one person in this forum who actually swam say that their HR readings during swim were wildly inaccurate or that they did not want the HR data for the swim. What 3 people are you talking about? did you do a pool swim with VA3 in sw 2.90 (with the oHR runing during the swim)? did you look at your HR data after? If you're just saying oHR data cannot be reliable for a pool swim because that's what I've read, that's pretty lame...
I guess where I can agree with tmk17 and what would make everyone happy would be this:
Garmin gives us the option to turn off/on oHR during pool swims. (Also give us the HR bar graph and average HR for activity!)