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Open Water Swimming

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LazyDaisy Jun 2021 10:48am, 15 Jun 2021 33,600 posts	0 LazyDaisy Front crawl
TheScribbler Jun 2021 11:05am, 15 Jun 2021 5,514 posts	0 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
KatieB Jun 2021 11:12am, 15 Jun 2021 8,624 posts	0 KatieB LD-unusual for it to mess up then, my 935 gets very confused by breaststroke, even in the pool.
Hobie Jun 2021 12:51pm, 15 Jun 2021 5 posts	0 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).
cackleberry Jun 2021 1:27pm, 15 Jun 2021 2,104 posts	0 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...)
Luiz Jun 2021 1:29pm, 15 Jun 2021 863 posts	0 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.
Lizzie Whizz Jun 2021 4:30pm, 15 Jun 2021 25,146 posts	0 Lizzie Whizz Dipper waves
LindsD Jun 2021 6:37pm, 15 Jun 2021 47,711 posts	0 LindsD Dippers definitely welcome here
LazyDaisy Jun 2021 10:03pm, 15 Jun 2021 33,605 posts	0 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.
Groundhog Jun 2021 3:49pm, 16 Jun 2021 2,454 posts	0 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.