Heart Rate Monitor - Cycling and Swimming

wandsworth
wandsworth Posts: 354
edited December 2013 in Road buying advice
I'm looking for a heart rate monitor that I can use on the bike but which will also record heart rate when swimming. The Garmin Forerunner 910XT looks good, but doesn't seem to record heart rate when swimming. Its swimming functions are stroke count, lengths etc. I'm more interested in just recording heart rate rather than the more sophisticated stuff like stroke count.

I have a Garmin Edge 500 for the bike, which is great, but I would replace that if I could find something good that did the swimming as well.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.
Shut up, knees!

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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Swimming destroys swim trunks quite fast - would it not do a similar thing to pulse meter belts ?
  • lochindaal
    lochindaal Posts: 475
    Only one of the Polar watches can do this but it has no GPS, you need a seperate module
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  • wandsworth
    wandsworth Posts: 354
    Thanks. Looked that up - it's the RCX5, which looks nice. I guess you could get any rides (as opposed to swims) you did with it to Strava?
    Shut up, knees!

    Various Boardmans, a Focus, a Cannondale and an ancient Trek.

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