Pool swimming - how to manage Intervals *during* the swim ?
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Re: Structured Intervals - screen for swimming in the pool.
Hi everyone,
I just came from GarminLand to a Suunto Run, and did my first pool swim today. I’m disappointed… I’m used to see metrics like “duration” and “distance” for the current interval, and also (on another screen for example) of total duration + distance. These are very different things, interval time vs total time, both important DURING the activity (if I can see it later in the App, great!, but I’m not checking my phone while I swim). Once I’m done with the interval, say 200m, I push a button, rest at the wall, during that time the watch shows “rest time” (among other things, maybe total time, total distance, whatever), then I push again the same button to start a new interval and the watch resets the counters so I see 0m and 0min0sec … I don’t want to see something like 21min43sec when starting a new 200m interval (or whatever I choose to want to swim then) and then have to do the math in my head while I swim to know my speed - it’s useful to have an idea of my pace while turning at the wall to know if I’m going too fast, too slow. Either way, I’m having trouble finding how I can simply see metrics (time, length swam) for individual intervals while swimming, instead of just total values - for that I might as well just have bought a chronometer…
I spent quite some time looking for this and cannot find the answer. I looked into buying an Apple Watch but ditched the idea after realising it could not do what I ask above - kept getting the same answers “the AW is a smartwatch, a lifestyle thing, not a sports watch”. So, it was between another Garmin or a Suunto and I was eager to make the jump, I like the design, the clean interface, the brand. I’m starting to be a little scared that a “sports watch” like my Suunto Run (which I presume shares the same Apps to the other Suuntos in the ecosystem, the Race S, Race 2, etc) cannot do something so simple ?