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June 2023 - Bicycle day, Environment day, Running day and Wellness day

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Join the June challenges now in Garmin Connect! There are several new badges in the beginning of June. See the list in the end the post. Three month challenges - Stage 2 Last month!  Now is the time i f you haven't completed them yet.  Full month challenges June Walking Join this challenge and record 30 miles of walking activities in June. June 15K Join this challenge and record a 15-kilometer running activity in June. June Tour Join this challenge and record 400 kilometers of cycling activities in June. June Warrior Join this challenge and record a total of four hours of yoga activities in June. Active June Join this challenge and record 20 activities of at least 20 minutes each in June. June Swim Join this challenge and record 4,000 meters of swimming activities in June. June Rundown Join this challenge and record 50 miles of running activities in June. June Step Month Join this challenge and record 300,000 steps in June. June Gains Join this challenge and record a total of four

How to see the current count of yoga, HIIT, strength and more

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There are several badges that require that you log a number of activities of a specified type (or a sub type of that type) Zen Master - Type: Yoga Super Strength - Type: Strength Walk the Walk - Type: Walking Pilates - Type: Pilates HIIT - Type: HIIT Deep Breathing - Type: Breathwork There are also several dive badges - Type: Diving Garmin do not show you how many of each you have logged so you can't follow your progress. You will just get the badges when you reach the required number of activites. There are ways to keep track. Progress Summary Report Use the Progress Summary report:  https://connect.garmin.com/modern/progress-summary   First you need to get the start date for the badge you want. Most of them started 2020-04-28 or 2021-06-01. Use https://garminbadges.com to find the start date. Click the badge you want and check the date. I will use HIIT 5 as the example since that is the badge I'm currently working on to get. It has been available since 2021-06-01. Go to the

May 2023 - Disney 100 Years of Wonder and cycling climb is back

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  Join the May challenges now in Garmin Connect. New in this month:  Disney 100 Years of Wonder , Complete all four Disney 100 Years of Wonder challenges.  There are four challenges. Each is a month long. Months with challenges: May, July, September and November. If you complete all four you will get a fifth Disney badge. These challenges are promotions for  Disney vívofit® jr. kids devices. If you complete one of those challenges you will get 25% off on select Disney vívofit® jr. kids devices  at Garmin.com. Three month challenges - Stage 2 Second month in Stage 2 Full month challenges Run the Star Wars Galaxy Join this Disney 100 Years of Wonder challenge and record 100 minutes of running activities in  May . Note that there are country restrictions on this badge. The list is not yet complete. Countries found so far: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, Thailand

Garmin Badges Calendars

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This weekend I developed and launched the new Garmin Badges Calendars . Calendars are generated from the badge and challenge data in the database so you can add them to your calendar application and always stay updated with what badge or challenge to do next. There are two calendars. One for current time limited badges and one for the current challenges. Default all current challenges will be fetched, but there are options to filter the badges with two parameters. userId - Only show the challenges you have joined and still need to do. Note that you must add your data to the site for it to work.  maxduration - Only fetch challenges below or equal the max duration in days. For example if you don't want the stage 1-4 challenges to be fetched you set the limit to below 90 days, if you don't want the monthly challenges and the stage 1-4 challenges then set the limit to below 28 days. Get the URLs to the calendar files and see examples for how to use the parameters in the page Garmin

April 2023 - Will we get expeditions this month?

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Join the April challenges soon in Garmin Connect. New in this month: We might see expeditions. Other news: All standard badges that were announced in January are now active: Tacx challenges - Alpine Classic, Eleven Cities Tour and Pro Rides and the event badges - Set a Date, Sharing Is Caring and Mission Accomplished. Updates after initial post 2023-03-15 - Expeditions are here. You can join one climb and one hike at the same time. Join one of each and just log steps and floors climbed and you will eventually get the badges. They are labeled as limited time, but the end date is in 2099 so no need to hurry. 2023-03-30 - 2023 Songkran Festival is confirmed to require country Thailand. Expeditions - Update What we saw last month was just some general details about the expeditions. Now Garmin has listed 28 expeditions. You see them in the end of this post. They are famous climbs and hiking routes.  Since one of the descriptions from last month said that you only can do one expedition at a

March 2023 - Another 4 km of swimming and two new diving badges

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Join the March challenges now in Garmin Connect! New in this month: Expeditions? More below. What we have is another month with 4 km of swimming. That was the new challenge in February that we see again in March. There are two new standard badges for diving. We don't know when they will be public but they are on the way. We are also waiting for the next Tacx challenge. We have only seen the first which was Alpine Classic. Expeditions? There is something new coming that I'm not sure what it is about. I will just post the text: expedition_details_desc_1_hike This expedition does not have a time limit. Your hike will be completed when you fulfill the required steps for the expedition. expedition_details_desc_1_climb This expedition does not have a time limit. Your climb will be completed when you fulfill the required floors climbed for the expedition. expedition_details_desc_2 You may start or end an expedition at any time. By ending an expedition, you will lose all progress made.

February 2023 - 4 km of swimming and new badges for Valentine and Lantern festival

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  Join the February challenges now in Garmin Connect. This time Garmin did not reveal the challenges early. New in this month: A swimming badge for the full month! Three month challenges - Stage 1 Second month in Stage 1. Full month challenges February 15K Join this challenge and record a 15-kilometer running activity in February. February Step Month Join this challenge and record 300,000 steps in February. February Gains Join this challenge and record a total of four hours of strength activities in February. February Rundown Join this challenge and record 50 miles of running activities in February. Active February Join this challenge and record 20 activities of at least 20 minutes each in February. February Swim Join this challenge and record 4,000 meters of swimming activities in February. February Warrior Join this challenge and record a total of four hours of yoga activities in February. February Tour Join this challenge and record 400 kilometers of cycling activities in February.