Garmin

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flanker Dec 2023 5:44pm, 21 Dec 2023 21,080 posts	0 flanker I'd guess is the reason they don't support swimming HR is that it isn't as accurate as they'd like, and while "reasonable" is probably good enough for most people (anything better than nothing?) it'd get analysed and pilloried in the tech sports press, and it's just not worth the negative publicity. Just look at what happens when a running watch doesn't get the HR accurate to the beat...
Dvorak Dec 2023 10:06am, 22 Dec 2023 27,426 posts	0 Dvorak I have a 245 and get plausible results after swimming from my wrist HR. Hadn't thought to check the reading live. However, it is very unreliable for measuring the distance. Reliably unreliable. I do a pretty slow but steady breaststroke, occasionally a bit faster. My last swim had three sections: 600, 350, 400m. According to the Garmin, those were 700, 580, 400m. Was that last section recorded correctly then? Nope, I had 100m splits ranging from 1:46 to 4:37.
I saw 3Ms come sailing in Dec 2023 6:29pm, 22 Dec 2023 22,925 posts	0 I saw 3Ms come sailing in Mrs3M's Vivoactive 3 regularly misses blocks of laps. Much to her annoyance, later!
Nellers Dec 2023 6:34pm, 22 Dec 2023 41,757 posts	0 Nellers To be fair it seems pretty good for counting lengths in the pool, and I do take the point about the inaccurate element being bad for publicity but it's a bit frustrating because I'd definitely be OK for swimming with "close enough". Ah well. I'll just have to save some pennies for an upgrade.
Jen Ho Ho Ho B Dec 2023 3:07pm, 23 Dec 2023 1,952 posts	0 Jen Ho Ho Ho B Has anyone else's Garmin gone weird today? Cycled back from the parkrun cafe and noticed the GPS tracking is way out (it was fine 2 hours before cycling there!)
Nord SledRunner Jan 2024 11:35am, 2 Jan 2024 3,921 posts	0 Nord SledRunner I had a brainwave to avoid the artefact of the watch dragging down my estimate of VO2 max due to so much running in the snow. I copied trail-running to a new activity and turned off VO2max recording for that activity. www8.garmin.com
Gobi Jan 2024 12:38pm, 2 Jan 2024 80,896 posts	0 Gobi Nord - nicely done , dedication to adjust I run with my dog in all sorts of shit but never worry. I admire your efforts
Nord SledRunner Jan 2024 5:58pm, 2 Jan 2024 3,922 posts	0 Nord SledRunner That's generous. Thanks, Gobi.
Gobi Jan 2024 11:39pm, 2 Jan 2024 80,897 posts	0 Gobi 😀
fetcheveryone Jan 2024 5:29pm, 3 Jan 2024 30,006 posts	0 fetcheveryone Do any of you fine folk have a multisport FIT file you'd be willing to share with me for testing please? My email is ian@.... you know the rest. Thank you