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Jun 2021
10:48am, 15 Jun 2021
33,600 posts
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LazyDaisy
Front crawl
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Jun 2021
11:05am, 15 Jun 2021
5,514 posts
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TheScribbler
Lovely morning sea swim for me. The water was so clear. Could have done with gloves as well as boots but my hands acclimatised after about 5 mins
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Jun 2021
11:12am, 15 Jun 2021
8,624 posts
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KatieB
LD-unusual for it to mess up then, my 935 gets very confused by breaststroke, even in the pool.
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Jun 2021
12:51pm, 15 Jun 2021
5 posts
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Hobie
LD what's your kick off like?
My understanding is that detecting the kick off is one of the main ways that Garmins count lengths in pool swims. Where my 735XT overcounts it tends to be strokes where I've got a weaker kick off (backstroke) or where there is less distinction between my normal stroke and my underwater kick (butterfly).
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Jun 2021
1:27pm, 15 Jun 2021
2,104 posts
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cackleberry
Are dippers on here or is there a separate thread?
Just still buzzing from my river dip at the weekend, but it was most definitely not a swim!!
(few minutes of paddling/sitting/procrastinating followed by a controlled tumble in, SHRIEK then thrash my way back to the bank while my mate sits there pissing himself laughing... I'll get better at this...)
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Jun 2021
1:29pm, 15 Jun 2021
863 posts
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Luiz
LD, do you stop and check your watch at the end of the pool? My vivoactive used to add an extra length every time I stopped long enough to look at it, it was registering as though there was an extra turn. Even if you just stop and swish your arms a bit the accelerometer will register the difference in movement compared to your standard stroke.
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Jun 2021
4:30pm, 15 Jun 2021
25,146 posts
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Lizzie Whizz
Dipper *waves*
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Jun 2021
6:37pm, 15 Jun 2021
47,711 posts
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LindsD
Dippers definitely welcome here
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Jun 2021
10:03pm, 15 Jun 2021
33,605 posts
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LazyDaisy
I think we've got two possible answers then: at the moment for some reason we're encouraged not to push off but to swim continuously (hence the rectangular, wide lap) and once or twice (maybe more) I stopped at the shallow end to allow other swimmers to go first. That might account for it. Thanks all.
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Jun 2021
3:49pm, 16 Jun 2021
2,454 posts
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Groundhog
LD, I had this issue at Hilsea Lido. This may not suit your situation, but I decided to pause my watch at the end of each length while I made my way across the width, then restart and kick off. It kept to the local requirement to do laps but I still got an accurate distance. It was 67m lengths, but relatively narrow, so that helped.
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Open water swimming in Cleck
Jun 2021