I don’t think the issue is with the Run vs Race S. I suspect something happened with an OS update. My Race S USED to give me interval data. I used the top button to pause every time I finished an interval, and then hit it again when I started a new interval. I got all the data I expected–total time, interval time, etc. Then about a month ago, I get nothing but total distance, and then a nonsensical breakdown of what stroke it thinks I was swimming each 25 yards (which is often not right–it frequently confuses my free and butterfly somehow), but it doesn’t show my intervals anymore.
This is so frustrating because I only got the Race S earlier this year to replace my Garmin Vivoactive, because the Garmin would sometimes just stop recording my swim randomly, with no warning after about 400 yards. And the Garmin gave me no heart rate data–it explicitly shut off the heart rate monitor during a swim. So I was excited that the Race S seemed to give me more data and functioned essentially the same.
But no longer! I’m so disappointed and cannot figure out how to get the internal functionality back. I guess I could use the bottom button to create an interval split, but what is the use of that if it doesn’t also pause?? That’s ludicrous!! And even I’ve never noticed it auto-pausing no matter what I do, but I also see no point in it auto-pausing after a few seconds–I swim in masters swim meets and I need to know precise times on my intervals. A few seconds is an eternity when prepping for meets in which fractions of a second can determine who wins.
Anyway, my point is, I’m having similar issues not with the Run but with the Race S , and they didn’t used to be issues. Does anyone know if there was some update to the OS that messed things up??