Was looking for recommendations on a good watch from swimming in. Mostly it will be for open water, but I may use it for pool workouts too. The biggest function would be just a stopwatch which most all have, but it would be nice for a countdown function (to signal every 10, 20 minutes, etc for OW training). A HR function would be nice too but I know then it gets to be a bit pricey. I would like to put a $150 cap on it and see what you all come up with.
I'm a bit of a watch collector (have bought and sold dozens) so I'm familiar with many of them. Try to stay away from large, bulky watches like "some" of the G-Shocks, etc.
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I've tried a few others but always go back to the Ironman. Easy to set the countdown repeat function to your whatever your interval, not too big, lasts me 3+ years with heavy use.
Only complaints I've had are sometimes the straps would fail, and when I was bike racing, moving up from Cat IV to Cat III (ie, crashing a lot in criteriums), the hard points on the case would ding my hand at the base of the thumb. I've always worn my watchface on the inside of my wrist. I stopped wearing one, wrapped it on the bars, and stopped crashing so much, too.
Y'day some try-swimmer was wearing a pulse monitor, drove me crazy every time I would pass him with the intermittent beeping. Maybe the big watch he wears is the cause of his wicked dropped elbows?
I've tried a few others but always go back to the Ironman. Easy to set the countdown repeat function to your whatever your interval, not too big, lasts me 3+ years with heavy use.
Only complaints I've had are sometimes the straps would fail, and when I was bike racing, moving up from Cat IV to Cat III (ie, crashing a lot in criteriums), the hard points on the case would ding my hand at the base of the thumb. I've always worn my watchface on the inside of my wrist. I stopped wearing one, wrapped it on the bars, and stopped crashing so much, too.
Y'day some try-swimmer was wearing a pulse monitor, drove me crazy every time I would pass him with the intermittent beeping. Maybe the big watch he wears is the cause of his wicked dropped elbows?
