@Suunto Team,
I was quite disappointed that a severe bug was introduced regarding swim styles and lane tracking for pool swimming in 2.40.44. The lane count, which was quite precise before, always showed counts way above the real distance I covered, and swim style recognition was deteriorated drastically. With 2.44.46, which said “Improved swim style detection in pool swimming”, I had hoped that things would be back to normal, but unfortunately, this is not the case. Here’s a screenshot from the Suunto app of a recent swim unit:
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The lanes marked in yellow and blue are translation errors (“Butterfly” should be “Delphin” or “Schmetterling” in the german translation, and “zurück” certainly should read “Rücken”), but that are only minor points.
The main point is that swim style recognition is completely off:
First of all, I definitely do not do apnoe diving in the pool I’m training in. This pool is approx. 2 m deep, so no diving possible at all.
Second, I regulary do a mix of free style, breast stroke, back stroke and a few butterfly lanes in between. Freestyle and breast stroke are completely gone from the log, although they make up most of the training units. I’m not able to verify that the units labelled as “zurück” and “butterfly” really were done in the style my Race logged them, but the lanes (or groups of lanes) labelled “apnoe” go on and on for the rest of the log. Even back stroke lanes are underrepresented. This is so messed up that it’s unusable.
Third, the lane count, which was much too high in versions 2.40.44 and 2.43.12 is now much too low (1.600 m for me, as opposed to 2.000 m for other swimmers in my training group, mostly using Garmin and Polar watches). Prior to 2.40.44, the distance my Race logged was similar to those of others in my training group. Not a good basis for a correct training log and the calculations for training effects etc.,
Suunto team, please fix this ASAP. I’m even going back to my old Garmin Fenix 6, that I ditched for other reasons, because I’m competing in a triathlon event in a few days and want to have an accurate swim log.