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I have just started swimming again after a 9 year injury gap and decided I would do 60 lengths which equates to 1,500m. Using my Garmin pool swimming I am told I have completed ~2,000m even though the pool length is set to the correct value.
I thought yesterdays reading might have been me pressing the wrong button or not stopping it when I stopped swimming but it did it again today.
31/08/2021 2,025 m Distance, 25 m Pool Size
01/09/2021 2,075 m Distance, 25 m Pool Size
The timings look correct, just the distance and number of laps is wrong.
51:59 Time
47:29 Moving Time
52:08 Elapsed Time
This means that all the other stats it shows are wrong based on the distance and number of laps.
Any ideas / suggestions?
Take a tape measure next time and confirm the size of the pool?
Try swimming in straight line.
How many lengths does it say you did? It may be miss reading your turns.
I find my Vivo to be a bit shonky with pool laps - it frequently gives an extra length if I do something like adjust my goggles between lengths. I'm not sure I've ever had a session where it's correctly counted them to be honest.
I think it's just not the best tool for the job if you're serious with swim training, however I'm just a fat middle aged man trying not to drown for a couple of sessions a week so I'm not overly bothered...
i have the vivoactive 3 music, my pool is 33 1/3m so 30 lengths is 1km.
as others say it can go silly, but it tends to recover ie it'll stick on a reading as i do 2 lengths, then on 3rd length it will recalculate so overall it works,
if i stop, or swim a short length to cut off a slow swimmer/corner then it doesnt know what to do. either adds or doesnt.
looking at this mornings swim, its worked for 80% of my swim but the swolf / strokes goes haywire on 2 or 3 lengths. with match the corner cut and a 10 second breather half way through
i keep thinking of getting the garmin swim specific watch.
Even with higher-end garmin watches you need to give them some help with pools.
Don't change stroke during a length
Don't stop during a length
Don't wave your hands about between lengths
Do push off hard at the start of a length
Some of the watches have auto-stop, which helps accuracy a lot for me (as I stop quite a lot)
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