Making a splash - swimming with the Moov

My main use for the Moov was originally to help with my running, so I always envisaged running as my first test, but we have some guests staying with us, so the only way I was getting to test the Moov yesterday, was with a lunchtime swim. I've not swum for a few months, so this was a gentle return to the water session.

The app is quite simple, you connect your move, then leave the phone in the locker, and go for a swim. The moov recognises when you start swimming, counts your strokes, your laps, and measures your turn times. When you finish, you return to the phone, and your session gets uploaded.

One thing to note here is that just after uploading my workout, the Swim app infomred me that it had a firmware update for my device, which took over the app for abotu 10 minutes while it downloaded. It would be nice if this could happen in the background, but its a small quibble, especially knowing that the company is pushing updates.

Anyway, the first thing you do is tell the app how long your pool is, and then you get a results page, showing highlights from your swim. these are some baseline data:

46 laps 26:15 1150m 393cal

stroke rate 1.97 secs/stroke
distance per stroke 2.13m

fastest 100m - 1.28 ( 2.17 average)

longest continuous swim 350m

what I had planned to swim was 4 sets of 250m with a short break in between... my lap counting is not great, but I was fairly sure I hadn't swum an extra 6 lengths without realising it....

I can check my lap details on the next screen:

this shows the blocks of exercise..

1: 250m freestyle 4:57... all good

rest 0:58
2: 275m freestyle 5:05.5 - something not right here, as I ended up at the same end of the pool, so theres something wrong...looking down at the individual laps - its clear that it got confused part way through, and split 1 lap into 2 - it would be really good to be able to edit this, but there doesn't currently seem to be a way to "fix" erroneous data.

my rest period now got a bit confused - I had about 2 minutes off, but again the small movements I made seem to have confused the Moov.., I've got 2 laps of " mixed stroke" here...

onto interval 3

3: 375m freestyle  6:26 - here I definitely did 2 extra lengths, but again, theres one length which has been split into 2

rest 2.00

4: 250m freestyle 5:13.5 - perfect  - 10 lengths with times.


So, in conclusion, there's lots of good data here, but a couple of glitches in the lap counting algorithm - I actually did 1050 metres, but I've been credited with 1150, which means alot of the derived data is probably out... Moov could probably do with adding in an editor to fix some of these things... as it would be easy to make those changes. Will contact them and see what the response is.