What’s the best way to pool swim with the S9?

Victor Mora

I’d like to not include rest periods in my total time and average paces. What’s the best way to do that?

Also, I find that the last lap of a set isn’t counted until I pretend to push off again. Is there a way to have the lap count once I end the set instead of having to push off again?

Bulkan

Following… I suffer the same… don´t now how to swim with this watch and count the laps, the time…

Victor Mora

@Bulkan Hopefully somebody who knows chimes in soon!

Saketo Nemo

just wait, have you ever tried? every time you finish a tub and don’t leave, watch takes 5-7 seconds to count it.
For resting time, I take laps but I know…it’s not the best choice. Maybe…later we can see watch we saw in movescount, with autorecognition of time of pause

Bulkan

When you do a lap for the rest how do you manage in Movescount/ Suunto app?

I use auto pause but the main problem is I don’t know the rest time and sometimes drives me crazy.

Saketo Nemo

@Bulkan
I don’t take pause. When i do, for example 10x100m with series recovery till 2’, I’m starting with the activity, suppose we get to 100m in 1’40 ", I press the lap and we will repeat it once I get to 2 '. And so on: the following at 100m, arriving at 3’40 ", I press lap and I will repeat it at 4 ', starting again.

In MC is yet clear, in SA laps are coming

Victor Mora

@Saketo-Nemo this seems to produce correct intervals in the Suunto app. My manual laps are off, ex: a 200yd interval may show in the manual section as a 175yd lap and a 25 yd lap. I guess this has to do when the last length is counted and when I press the lap button. The app probably does something in the background to create a 200yd interval which is what I meant to have done in the first place.

Bulkan

@Saketo-Nemo said in What’s the best way to pool swim with the S9?:

@Bulkan
I don’t take pause. When i do, for example 10x100m with series recovery till 2’, I’m starting with the activity, suppose we get to 100m in 1’40 ", I press the lap and we will repeat it once I get to 2 '. And so on: the following at 100m, arriving at 3’40 ", I press lap and I will repeat it at 4 ', starting again.

In MC is yet clear, in SA laps are coming

Thank you very much, so you don’t use auto pause and autolaps? You use it like I was used to use my Garmin.

I will try it that way. The lack of laps in Suunto app was driving me crazy.

Bulkan

@Victor-Mora said in What’s the best way to pool swim with the S9?:

@Saketo-Nemo this seems to produce correct intervals in the Suunto app. My manual laps are off, ex: a 200yd interval may show in the manual section as a 175yd lap and a 25 yd lap. I guess this has to do when the last length is counted and when I press the lap button. The app probably does something in the background to create a 200yd interval which is what I meant to have done in the first place.

@Saketo-Nemo when do you press the lap bottom? When you finish straight or do you turn and press lap?

Saketo Nemo

@Bulkan
No autopause, no autolap.
Press lap at the end of a serie and when i start again

Victor Mora

how do you auto pause on pool swims? I don’t see to have that feature in my Pool Swimming options

Victor Mora

@Saketo-Nemo when I press lap at the end of an interval, it doesn’t count my last length. See example in my screenshot below. The screenshot shows a 200 meter interval (~218 yards) but it counted the last length of 25m (27 yd) during my “rest”. Does that happen to you? The only way I can avoid this is by waiting about 5 seconds and then my last length is counted.

Bulkan

@Victor-Mora in options you have it

Bulkan

@Victor-Mora The same problem for me, sometimes 175 meters and sometimes 200 meters, I don’t know if do I have to turn, wait 5 seconds…

Victor Mora

Found a fix to this, see my post here: https://forum.suunto.com/topic/1510/bad-swimming-sync-to-strava/94