910XT Experts - Swim Question

Congratulations on your purchase. I too was one of the lucky ones that recently grabbed a 910 when it went on sale. To answer your question since the 910 uses an accelerometer for pool swim metrics you will need to push off with a little authority when turning. I believe if you're swimming with a tether it will just show a continuous very long lap. Hope this helps.

From what I know of my 910xt, it's not going to give you distance swimming in a stationary position.

I use a tether system on my home pool too. When I swim at home I don't use my 910 I just use my regular watch to record time then I use my avg pace from lap pool swims to give me an estimate on distance.

If he knows his stroke count for 25, I wonder if he could throw is arm out faster on that stroke to represent a turn.

The watch DOES NOT technically caclulate distance indoors. When you swim indoors you tell it your lane distance. It can tell when you turn and marks the end/start of the length. It adds up all the lengths to calculate total distance. What it technically does it calculate total # of lengths swam and then multiplies by the distance you tell it your swim length is.

I have never swam with a tether but would suggest that it will keep track of # of strokes and that is it.

Additionally, for it to calculate distance I am pretty sure you must be doing a recognized stroke. For example, even though I push off the wall on kick sets it does not register a distance for kick sets.

I think you'd be better off getting a finger lap counter, like this: http://www.swimoutlet.com/product_p/4028.htm

And then just hit the button every X laps that you figure would equal 25 yards.

...or just go by time and guess your pace. Either way, the margin of error will be high.