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Open Water Swimming

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LazyDaisy Jun 2021 1:17pm, 13 Jun 2021 33,576 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy My Garmin 735xt says it does pool and OW but some of its distances are way off. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
Sushi. Jun 2021 1:21pm, 13 Jun 2021 29,460 posts	Quote Pin Sushi. Oh my 735xt doesn't seem too bad. Bit out now and again but not massively so.
jda Jun 2021 4:33pm, 13 Jun 2021 10,333 posts	Quote Pin jda Just stick any bottom of the range GPS watch on/in your towfloat depending on water resistance!
Hobie Jun 2021 7:49pm, 13 Jun 2021 4 posts	Quote Pin Hobie I reckon my 735XT is reasonably accurate and I like the stroke metrics. The stroke detect isn't great in the pool - but that won't be an issue of you mainly swim front crawl.
fraggle Jun 2021 5:18pm, 14 Jun 2021 2,946 posts	Quote Pin fraggle Someone on my local OW Swim FB group was asking about rash/irritation caused by duck mites 😮 not encountered this before, anyone for any prevention ideas ? Or is it just ‘one of those things’ so get used to it ?
FRU (KeepTheFaith) Jun 2021 5:28pm, 14 Jun 2021 12,808 posts	Quote Pin FRU (KeepTheFaith) We get duck mites down at Dedham when the weeds are high. Irritating! Basically it’ll be like itchy mozzie bites for a couple of days We’re going to try those £1 efolating gloves to do a quick rub down soon as you get out of the water Some of the swimmers also start to wear wet suits to stop it but I’m all skins so will try the rub down method It’s annoying. Although good to understand when It’s likley to be worse. Right now in major growing season and through to probably late August And also if we run to the sea to avoid that we face the jelly fish! Gahhhh!! Bring back the winter lol!!!! I said to my swimpal today I miss the cold cold!
rf_fozzy Jun 2021 5:29pm, 14 Jun 2021 14,734 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy en.wikipedia.org outdoorswimmer.com
fraggle Jun 2021 5:35pm, 14 Jun 2021 2,947 posts	Quote Pin fraggle Ah, now I was aware of swimmers itch (but not ever had it) I thought the duck mites could be something different - thanks all 😃🦆🐌
LazyDaisy Jun 2021 10:10am, 15 Jun 2021 33,599 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy Just to prove my point about my 735xt - I've just swum 1000m in the lido, ie 20x50m lengths. Admittedly we're swimming in a rectangle so you could add on maybe max 2m per length to account for the extra-wide lanes. My watch is set to 50m pool length. So how does it reckon I did 1400m? Is it because it can't believe anyone would swim that slowly over 1km?
KatieB Jun 2021 10:16am, 15 Jun 2021 8,623 posts	Quote Pin KatieB What stroke LD?