Openwater swimming counts no distance
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@2b2bff Crawl swimming and at the edge the Watch was certainly a little longer out of water…
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@Sascha-Domres ok, this is important information. Outdoor pools should work with open water swimming “somehow”. I was doing some triathlons that started with doing lanes in an outdoor pool. Since triathlon mode used to work only with open water swimming, I had to use this mode.
The 500m swimming was logged by Suunto Race S as 449m - I think this is acceptable regarding the “misuse” of the mode.With this in mind, and you swimming freestyle, the watch should indeed log something better. As for every other open water swimming, it is important to give the watch some minutes time to proper acquire all satellites in the best possible way.
After a soft reset, all AGPS data will be deleted, so the watch is in a bad position to get a proper GPS signal in time.So for your scenario I can recommend two things:
a) use pool mode for pools and set the correct length. this is the best
b) If you have to use open water swimming, make sure to have the watch synced recently and wait a couple of minutes in the pre-start screen before entering the water.Here is my open water pool swim i mentioned above:
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@Egika Thank you very much for all the information. I actually didn’t wait a minute but only until the arrow was green… maybe that was the reason…
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@Sascha-Domres If you sync with the mobile first, the GPS satellite data should be updated as well. The you wait until the arrow goes green, that should work also.
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Strap the watch to a buoy, that’s the only way to make it work
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@Rafael-Costa-de-Araujo you swim in a pool with a buoy? Be careful to not get entangled when turning…
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@Egika open water swimming in a pool?
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@2b2bff have you actually read this thread?
open water swimming in a pool is what it is about. -
@Egika at least it started that way, you are right.
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@2b2bff it also ended like this - until @rafael-costa-de-araujo 22 days later came up with the buoy idea.
(…and I am not sure that he has read the thread before posting…)
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