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FIVE ONE SIX
the regular Garmin heart rate strap and their Tri heart rate straps (they make one specifically for running and one specific for swimming) are completely different units...
The tri-specific straps are new. Tri geeks have swum in all the Garmin straps back to the classic "hard" strap. I swam a ton in the original soft-strap, along with their classic original "HRM" unit before they added run dynamics and swimming and all that.