Has anyone else used a GPS for Open Water swimming?
I got a ADEO audio GPS and was able to use this to get some good results on our practice swim in this past spring. Here is a link from our team's website www.cmym.us/.../index.cfm. This is a nice GPS for swimmers in that it is audio only and I was able to find a case that fit on my google straps. The real problem with the product is that most of the prompts are for runners so the pace is in miles/hour and not meters/sec or yard/sec. I used this GPS for more a post swim analysis of our swims, as we swim in a groups and wait for the slower members at some marked locations.
This GPS was also nice for skiing where I usually listen to my MP3 player I just routed the cord to the GPS and then my headphones and had a back seat driver all day.
I use a GPS to track all my Alcatraz swims. I tuck the GPS under my swim cap since if I wear it on my wrist the water distorts the tracking everytime my hand goes underwater. If you go to www.motionbased.com and type in "gemich" in the upper right hand corner in the search block you'll see the Alcatraz routes I've swum. Because of the currents in the SF Bay, this really helps me understand what the currents were doing during any particular swim.
Gary
I use a GPS to track all my Alcatraz swims. I tuck the GPS under my swim cap since if I wear it on my wrist the water distorts the tracking everytime my hand goes underwater. If you go to www.motionbased.com and type in "gemich" in the upper right hand corner in the search block you'll see the Alcatraz routes I've swum. Because of the currents in the SF Bay, this really helps me understand what the currents were doing during any particular swim.
Gary
