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Swim watch

  • 15-02-2015 6:50pm
    #1
    biomed32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Looking into getting a swim watch. I have looked up several brands including the Garmin Swim, Swimmovate, TomTom and Sunnato.

    Im just wondering if anyone has any experience, recommendations.

    I am a novice swimmer but swim 5 days a week doing 2-2.5km per day in preparation for open water swimming for the summer. I'm hoping to use the watch as a motivator and lap counter, to track progress etc


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  • #2
    Kurt Godel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,361 ✭✭✭Kurt Godel


    biomed32 wrote: »
    Hi all,

    Looking into getting a swim watch. I have looked up several brands including the Garmin Swim, Swimmovate, TomTom and Sunnato.

    Im just wondering if anyone has any experience, recommendations.

    I am a novice swimmer but swim 5 days a week doing 2-2.5km per day in preparation for open water swimming for the summer. I'm hoping to use the watch as a motivator and lap counter, to track progress etc

    I've had a few- all below IMO.

    The Garmin Swim is the most accurate lap counter, if you want to let the watch do the work and not hit a button yourself each lap. It's fun to look up the data afterwards on Garmin Connect. If you don't mind hitting a button each lap, get a cheaper lap counter , which will be more accurate.

    However! The GS is useless in OW, and I almost guarantee that you will also want to track your OW swims. A watch that does both is the Garmin 910XT, or the 920. If you can afford it, its worth spending the extra for pool and OW metrics.


  • #3
    biomed32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭biomed32


    Thanks Kurt,

    I agree I would want to measure my open water swims more accurately then I am at the moment in the future but wouldn't have the funds to stretch that far as such yet. I am considering the Sunnato which has GPS and is cheaper then the Garmin and is specifically for swimming.


  • #4
    MojoMaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭MojoMaker


    Second vote for the 910XT and they're getting cheap now that the 920 is out. I picked up one a few months ago for 180 only 6 months old.

    For the pool in isolation, the Garmin Swim is the best watch currently on the market. An added bonus: you can also wear it as a normal watch because it actually tells the time :)


  • #5
    Carmelkayak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭Carmelkayak


    Hi there
    I have a Garmin Swim and I find it very unreliable for counting lengths - if you pause at all it tends to add them on. I mostly use the stopwatch now and of course its good to be able to tell the time.


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