Yeah - you can’t really press the screen after the swim, with wet hands.
It does do a triathlon/multisport mode, but the watch face and your hands need to be bone dry.
Useful feature 
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Didn’t Garmin make that mistake with a high-end Edge model a few years back…
That’s not my experience - roll the dial as you’re getting up, then as you leave the water tap the screen. It takes some getting used to.
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Half distance yes, Full no. Use the Watch for all training, on race day for swim and run, bike comp for the bike.
Cheers!
Only had it a week, so getting used to it still.
I am really enjoying just wearing one watch and not having to bother with the HR strap when I’m doing easy stuff
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Zombie thread alert because I can’t remember if we had a genera’ ‘sports watch’ thread?
My sister wants to buy my nephew a watch. Fair play to him (and his Dad), neither of them sporty but they embarked on a community led 10wk C25K with the last session on Thurs.
So he’s a casual runner at best, but I hope he sticks with it. Sister was asking about a Garmin with message notifications etc, but my nephew has an iPhone, so I’m assuming an Apple Watch would be the obvious choice?
I don’t know anything about them. I see the SE3 is about £269.
I have an Apple Watch 11. Does the job and will monitor various activities as needed. Not as sophisticated for sports as something like a top end Garmin but does he really need to go to that extent?
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If there’s a strong chance of him bringing the phone anyway, I wouldn’t bother with a watch yet
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Thanks both 
@fatbuddha , I agree with that, something fairly basic will be more than enough. I think the only reason Garmin came up is because my sister knows that’s what I have.
@ianmcl , possibly. I think she just wants to get him something that does both. He’s coming off a very old Fitbit apparently. I think it’s a bit of a reward for actually sticking with the program.
He has an outside maintenance type job, so seeing messages without pulling his phone out may be useful I guess.
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