[tbodkin2020]

The workout swim warm up screen on my Garmin 945 only shows the warm-up interval’s time. It does not show the distance or pace. This may seem lame but i lose track of the number of laps, which is why i rely on my watch in the first place. Also, i want to make sure i stay within Z1 during w/u. It’s frustrating that the swim w/u screen locks the user out of all other Garmin screens, so you can’t scroll to a distance or pace screen. Second frustrating thing is that if you hit the lap button too soon (say after 4 laps instead of 5), it automatically adds the full w/u distance to the total distance. So if you’re supposed to swim 250 yards in the w/u and you forget where you’re at and actually swim 200 yards, then hit the lap button, it automatically gives you 250 yards.

My wish list:
1. Don’t let w/u screen lock user out of other Garmin screens.
2. Put distance and pace on the w/u screen.
3. Workout adds the actual yardage you did in your w/u instead of assuming you did exactly what what was called for.

[David Warden]

T,

Thanks for posting this. Garmin has definitely updated their software to treat swim workouts differently, but most is the same.

1. I just tested a swim workout this on the 920xt and it does not lock the workout. I have access to all the other screens and can scroll to any other customer screen I’ve made. It must be a limit to the 945, since the 945 is really just a running watch and not a multi-sport or swim watch while the 920xt is a multi-sport watch.

2. We can fix this. Garmin recently changed the Drill tag to not display distance, just time. I hate it too, so I’ll fix it. Unfortunately I have to re-write all the swim workouts again. It’s on the shortlist, but it will be a few months.

3. This is a limitation on the Garmin itself. It has to rely on user input and assumes no mistakes. I hear you on this one, I’ve double tapped that lap button accidently many times and there is no recovery. I don’t know how Garmin could accomodate this one…something like an “undo” button. Do you have any ideas?

David

[tbodkin2020]

Thanks David. I appreciate your responsiveness and look forward to the updates.

[David Warden]

All, this is now fixed with all swim workouts from the Workout Library.

David

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