TYR Stopwatch

"Gabe Brannan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I've inherited a TYR stopwatch from my club's previous coach. The watch, of course, didn't come
with instructions. The one thing I'm curious about is the 'stroke rate' function. I'm familiar
with stroke rate, and how important than it is, but when I swam in college we used different
watches so I'm unsure of this particular watch's capabilities and how to read its data. Does
anyone else have this watch?

I am not familiar with that brand of stopwatch, but in general, stroke-rate functions seem to work
like this: In stroke-rate mode, you press START at a point in the stroke, then a certain number of
cycles later, press STOP. The number of cycles is usually something like three or five.

You might also see if this is one of the many cheap stopwatches with stroke-rate that has broken
software. These watches have a dual display and a memory function, a case form similar to the
original Seiko 100-split, and a place below the display for a re-brand label:

Start the watch. Press SPLIT a few times. While the watch is still running, press MEMORY or RECALL
or whatever it is labelled, to review your splits (as you might well do timing more than one swimmer
in a heat). While the watch is _not_ displaying the most recent split, press SPLIT. Broken watches
will stop. Broken watches will take a split if STOP is pressed, and keep running.