Poolmate watch

Here's an update, prompted by my first open-water swim with the PoolMate watch. Even though the instructions claim the watch "will not work in Open Water", it did great at counting my strokes. It was able to tell me that I took 812 strokes out, and 898 strokes back for my loop in the local lake yesterday. It can't count laps, of course (and detected a few phantom laps), so it can't give pace or swim golf info. But all I was after was a stroke count, and that seems to be quite accurate. Good to know! I'm swimming an OW event this coming Saturday and was planning on using my watch to see how well it worked at counting my strokes. I'm swimming a 2K, so it will be interesting to see how may strokes I take to complete the distance. :) I was thinking about the Swim Golf efficiency score and I think it would be feasible to take the total number of strokes in my 2K race, plus the number of seconds it took, and then divide by 80, which is the number of 25m lengths in a 2K swim to get my average 25m score.

Here's an update, prompted by my first open-water swim with the PoolMate watch. Even though the instructions claim the watch "will not work in Open Water", it did great at counting my strokes. It was able to tell me that I took 812 strokes out, and 898 strokes back for my loop in the local lake yesterday. It can't count laps, of course (and detected a few phantom laps), so it can't give pace or swim golf info. But all I was after was a stroke count, and that seems to be quite accurate. Good to know! I'm swimming an OW event this coming Saturday and was planning on using my watch to see how well it worked at counting my strokes. I'm swimming a 2K, so it will be interesting to see how may strokes I take to complete the distance. :) I was thinking about the Swim Golf efficiency score and I think it would be feasible to take the total number of strokes in my 2K race, plus the number of seconds it took, and then divide by 80, which is the number of 25m lengths in a 2K swim to get my average 25m score.