Inaccurate Swim Time issue

[Stuarthitchman1]

I am using strava on my mobile phone to record open water swimming. When saving the activity I get a ridiculous time, although the recorded route is accurate. I can get the correct time by resaving as a run and then again as a swim. However, as soon as I share it defaults to a ridiculous time. Anyone else experienced this issue and can it be fixed?

[mika]

It's been another year and Strava still hasn't made this seemingly easy fix. I too have to record as "run" (or walk), and then edit the activity to Swim to make it accurate.

Please pay some attention to this. A known workaround has been available for a long time already.

[Merijnvdb]

Hi Jane, 

Thanks for your response.

I have to say for a app that doesn't support recording open water swimming it does a very good job. It tracks my path using GPS very well. My phone is located in my safety bouy and keeps a steady connection. This probably helps.

It feels like by default the swim moving time uses something like a minimum speed of 2km/hr. Which I currently often fall under.

By saving as a run and then back to swim it seems to pick a different threshold and fix the issue. Then I get a very accurate moving time (comparable to my garmin watch, which sadly can't hold the GPS connection).

Hence the fix appears relatively simple. Adjust the default minimum speed for moving time for swim activities. Would be great if this can be fixed. For now I simply use the temporarily save as run and save back to swim work around.

Thanks

Merijn

[ruslanijus]

Hello,  I tried a work around By saving as a run and then back to swim. And it doesnt workds for me. Affter few seconds after showing real pace ir recalculates and stars to show pold data.

Regards,

Ruslanas

[Cars10]

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[Cars10]

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@ruslanijus wrote:

Affter few seconds after showing real pace ir recalculates and stars to show old data.

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Same here. I recorded it on my Android phone in the buoy as "swim" after saving it and being at home I changed it to "hike" and back to "swim". As soon as I went back to "my activities" the results were wrong again.

Affter few seconds after showing real pace ir recalculates and stars to show pold data.