The 920XT now has swim workouts. They’re pretty good and can be added through Garmin Connect. You can even include sets with paddles/snorkel and paddles..Nice!
Some of you will like alerts – 50m to go, or something a little cleverer. I’m pretty happy with it as it is and just use it as a glorified lap counter – which is tricky sometimes as it counts distance and not laps.
Stick your 920XT on the cradle and get the 7.1 firmware. Wear your HRM-RUN/TRI and you’ll get the ‘special’ (ahem) running dynamics as well if you don’t already have them.
Also check out the LINE watch face. Looks good. I’ve finally found a watch face I like. Shown here on the right on the quite nice and new Garmin Forerunner 735XT (nice but no need to upgrade form your 920XT).
Here’s a quick image of one of the screen on CONNECT where you can create a swim workout.
Last Updated on 14 January 2026 by the5krunner
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Nice to see the swim workouts are transported to the 920XT as well.
I’m still not sure about the swim watch i saw lately combined with the little info we have.
We now also have the FR735 which has swimming functions and is round.
But this is not what i have seen, i could never see the difference of a FR235 and FR735 a few steps away (and before the FR735 announcement i would said it was the FR235, nothing special)
So there is still a round watch, optical more like the swim 1 (color) than a FT235/630/735, use-able in a pool.
If you have more info please post!
not sure garmin will have optical on a swim watch. I do have some more stuff but have to wait a while !! sy. not necess from garmin. could be a 925xt but that would not be round. could be F4 but that would not have optical probably. MAYBE ITS A GOLF WATCH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH