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Open Water Swimming

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‎08-12-2020 12:18

‎08-12-2020 12:18

Is it possible to track my open water swims with GPS.

I did a swim today and the data was all over the place...said I had only swum 50m and I had done at least 800m if not 1km!

I can't enter a 'length measurement' as I swim in different lakes.

I was thinking to perhaps set it off as a walk or run then manually convert to swim afterwards...would that work?  I really need to be able to measure my distances and other stats - it was poor today 😞

Thanks in advance

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‎08-12-2020 23:51

‎08-12-2020 23:51

Please can someone help?

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‎08-13-2020 04:07

‎08-13-2020 04:07

I tried setting it to walk to use the GPS and it didn't work. The best way I have found so far is to not set to activity - but just wear it whilst swimming. It is still not completely accurate but closer than other two methods. The need a special Open Water activity than enables GPS over water

 

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‎08-22-2020 11:01

‎08-22-2020 11:01

I put my watch into bike mode with GPS and fastened my ionic to my dry bag  The GPS trace was decent on Wednesday but the distance was way off.  I swam for at least over 1 mile but the watch registered  0.18 miles.  Hopefully, in the future the app should have an edit feature. 

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