Garmin Badges

  I've added a couple of new functions to the site. A new link is added to the badge overlay to view all users that got that badge. There is also a new page with Top Lists of badges and users: Top Lists page Note that the headers of the tables are clickable and will sort the content in that column. Badges without country requirement In the country select you can now remove all badges that got a country requirement. Select the last item:  [No country requirement] . Earned date The earned date for all badges are now stored in the database. You must add your badges again to add the earned dates. For repeatable badges the last earned date is stored since the first earned date doesn't exist in the data used. You will currently only see the earned date in the badge list "Users with badge". Users per badge Lists all badges and the number of users that got each badge. Click the badge name and you will see a list of all users. Users with badge View all users that got a specifi...

We have just started the December challenges so next year might feel a bit far into the future, but the challenges for January just came and Garmin added full year challenges divided into four stages. There is also a swimming challenge for January! 2021 Challenges - New from Garmin! 2021 Running - Stage 1 Join this challenge and record 505 kilometers (313.8 miles) of running activities from January 1 to March 31. Challenge yourself to a yearlong running goal of 2,021 kilometers (1,255.8 miles). This challenge consists of four 3-month stages, so take your running goal one day, week and month at a time to win each challenge badge stage. 2021 Walking - Stage 1 Join this challenge and record 91 miles (146.5 km) of walking activities from January 1 to March 31. Challenge yourself to a yearlong walking goal of 365 total miles (587.4 km) – one mile per day. This challenge consists of four 3-month stages, so take your walking goal one day, week and month at a time to win each challenge badge s...

All standard and challenge badges for December. Dates in December: 4-6 Challenge -  December Weekend 5K , Record a 5-kilometer running activity from December 4-6 6  Lava TRI Dapeng Bay 2020 , Attend the LAVA Pingtung Dapeng Bay Triathlon in Pingtung, Taiwan, on Dec 6, 2020 11-13 Challenge -  December Weekend 40K , Record a 40-kilometer cycling activity from December 11-13 20-31 Challenge -  12 Days of Fitness Running , Record 20 miles of running activities from December 20-31 20-31 Challenge -  12 Days of Fitness Cycling , Record 200 kilometers of cycling activities from December 20-31 20-31 Challenge -  12 Days of Fitness Walking , Record 10 miles of walking activities from December 20-31 25-31 Challenge -  2020 Wind Down , Record a total of 60 minutes of yoga activities from December 25-31 1-31 Challenge -  December Joy Rides , Record 250 kilometers of cycling activities in December 1-31 Challenge -  December Walking , Record 30 m...

  The two Thanksgiving badges can be awarded on Thursday November 26th. They are not repeatable so if you have them from a previous year you can't take them again. "Record an activity on Thanksgiving" "Record an activity and burn 300 calories on Thanksgiving" Remember to change the country to one of these: Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, United States Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting

Update: In January 2021 Garmin made some changes that stopped TCX files from being used for badges and challenges. I've got a report that it works if you convert the file to a FIT file and set a Garmin device as creator. Many of the badges can be awarded by just changing the country and then doing the required activity, distance and time, but there are also a number of location specific badges where that doesn't work like that. The most recent ones are the triathlons in Taiwan. What I've read is that the start and end locations must be at the correct location. So, how can we still get those badges? I managed to get one of the older geo located badges: Gatchina Half Marathon 10K 2019 The description is: Run the Gatchina Half Marathon 10K in Gatchina, Russia, on November 17, 2019. The idea was: Get the course Add timestamps Upload to Garmin Connect I found a course in Garmin Connect:  https://connect.garmin.com/modern/courses Searched for Gatchina and set the distance to 8...

The descriptions for the December badge challenges were just published. They are not available to join in Garmin Connect yet. They are usually available 2-3 days before they start. Nice to see something else than the usual ones. Yoga is the new challenge type. Dates in December: 4-6 December Weekend 5K , Record a 5-kilometer running activity from December 4-6 11-13 December Weekend 40K , Record a 40-kilometer cycling activity from December 11-13 20-31 12 Days of Fitness Running , Record 20 miles of running activities from December 20-31 20-31 12 Days of Fitness Cycling , Record 200 kilometers of cycling activities from December 20-31 20-31 12 Days of Fitness Walking , Record 10 miles of walking activities from December 20-31 25-31 2020 Wind Down , Record a total of 60 minutes of yoga activities from December 25-31 1-31 December Joy Rides , Record 250 kilometers of cycling activities in December 1-31 December Walking , Record 30 miles of walking activities in December 1-31 December Rund...

The images and descriptions for the November badge challenges were just published. They are not available to join in Garmin Connect just yet, but in a day or so they will be visible. Dates in November: 1-7 Joy Rides, 75 km cycling activities 13-15 Lucky 13 running, 13 miles running activities 13-15 Lucky 13 cycling, 13 miles cycling activities 13-20 Lucky 13 Walking, 13 km walking activities 20-22 November Weekend Walking, a 3-mile walk 27-29 November Weekend 10K, a 10 km run 27-29 November Weekend 40K, a 40 km ride 1-30 November Rundown, 50 miles running activites 1-30 November Step Month, 300000 steps Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting

Many dates, challenges and badges to keep track of. Here are all the dates listed. Not all of them are confirmed yet so there can be changes and updates to this list. Date 1: Under a Full Moon , any activity, Philippines or Taiwan 9: Hangul day , any activity, Korea 1-31: October Rundown , running 50 miles (80.5 km) 1-31: October Step Month , 300,000 steps 1-31: October Ride to 400 , cycling 400 km (248.6 miles) 25-31: Halloween Running , running 13 miles (21 km) 25-31: Halloween Cycling , cycling 5 hours 25-31: Halloween Walking , walking 13 miles (21 km) 29:  Garmin Ride In 2020 – 1 Hour , indoor cycling 1 h, United Kingdom 30-Nov 1:  Garmin Ride Out 2020 – 52 Miles , cycling 52 miles (83.7 km), United Kingdom 30-Nov 1:  Garmin Ride Out 2020 – 22 Miles , cycling 22 miles (35.5 km), United Kingdom 31: Halloween , 5 badges, any activity, International, Korea, Japan and Taiwan and one for sharing a badge 31: Loy Krathong , any activity, Thailand  31: WeFight 2020 , ha...

There are a few more badges announced for October. October will probably be the busiest month this year and a lot of focus to the last week and weekend of the month. There are six badge challenges, five Halloween badges, one for Mid-Autumn festival, one for Hangul Day and now these five badges. Garmin Ride In 2020 – 1 Hour Record a 1-hour indoor cycling activity on October 29 in support of Action Medical Research. Garmin Ride Out 2020 – 52 Miles Record a 52-mile cycling activity between October 30 and November 1 in support of Action Medical Research. Garmin Ride Out 2020 – 22 Miles Record a 22-mile cycling activity between October 30 and November 1 in support of Action Medical Research. WeFight 2020 Complete the 113 WeFight race in Taiwan on OCT 31, 2020 WeFight 2020 Complete the 51.5 WeFight race in Taiwan on OCT 31, 2020 Lots of cycling from October 29 to November 1. Note the word "In" and "Out" in the badge names. The indoor cycling badge is obvious that it must ...

October badges is coming up soon. This is what we currently know. There are 6 challenges in October. The Halloween week with 3 challenges will be a bit tough to take. For me it will be 2 hours running, 5 hours cycling and ~4 hours of walking. A total of 11 hours. 1.5 hours of training every day! So, no sick days or days off that week. October challenges: 1-31 October Rundown, running 50 miles (80.5 km) 1-31 October Step Month, 300,000 steps 1-31 October Ride to 400, cycling 400 km (248.6 miles) 25-31 Halloween Running, running 13 miles (21 km) 25-31 Halloween Cycling, cycling 5 hours 25-31 Halloween Walking, walking 13 miles (21 km) October badges: 1: Under a Full Moon, any activity, Philippines or Taiwan 9: Hangul day, any activity, Korea 31: Halloween - No info about this one yet. It might be 5 badges as last year. 1 international and 3 national (Korea, Japan and Taiwan) and 1 for sharing one of those badges. Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting

Save the date: October 9th - Hangul Day Garmin will have a badge on Hangul Day. The description is "Record an activity on Hangul Day." Hangul Day is the Korean Alphabet Day. Set the country to "Korea, Republic of" and do an activity on October 9th. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul_Day Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting

For about three weeks ago these three badges were announced and today the images came and also the metadata. Be a Hero 1 pt • Record an activity on Hero's Day Valid between 2020-08-01 00:00:00 and 2020-08-31 23:59:59 The sun looks like the one on the flag of Philippines and the other flag has the colors of the Spanish flag. The Philippines fought against the Spanish during the revolution. https://nationaltoday.com/national-heroes-day/amp/ You must also switch country to Philippines to see the badge. Then it is most likely settled.  Country: Philippines Date: 2020-08-31 (National Heroes' day is celebrated the last Monday in August) Activity type: Any Garmin Blue Run 100K 2020 4 pt • Complete 100K run in Thailand from September 1 to September 30, 2020. Valid between 2020-09-01 00:00:00 and 2020-09-30 23:59:59 Garmin Blue Run Sub 1 2020 2 pt • Complete 10K run in under 1 hour in Thailand from September 1 to September 30, 2020. Valid between 2020-09-01 00:00:00 and 2020-09-30 23:...

September badge challenges just published. You can usually join each challenge 2 days before they start. Dates: 1-30 Record 300,000 total steps. 1-30 Record at least 50 miles of running activities. 1-30 Record 16 hours of cycling activities. 1-30 Record 16 hours of walking activities. 6-19 Record at least 200 kilometers of cycling activities. 11-13 Join the challenge, then complete a 5-kilometer run. 18-20 Join the challenge, then complete a 3-mile walk. 18-20 Record 35,000 total steps. Way too much walking for my taste, but I will still try to do them all. Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting

Garmin just published the titles and descriptions for the badge challenges for August so this is just a sneak peak of what is coming. August Ride to 400 Join this challenge and record 400 kilometers of cycling activities in the month of August. August Step Month Join this challenge and record 300,000 steps in August. August Weekend 10K Join this challenge and record a 10-kilometer running activity from August 7-9. August Step Week Join this challenge and record 70,000 steps from August 9-15. August Rundown Join this challenge and record 40 miles of running activities from August 16-29. August Weekend 40K Join this challenge and record a 40-kilometer cycling activity from August 28-30. 400 km of cycling might be a tough one for those that don't bike much. But it is just 13 km per day...for 31 days :-) Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting

What you see in this image is when I used a very powerful trick. It is the elevation graph and you see three distinct changes in elevation over time. What caused them? It was when I took a break in a really long and hard bike ride and the air pressure had changed when I continued. The overlay is the speed and you see that after each break my speed goes up. This way my average speed will be very high. Just take a break when the speed goes down. The trick is to take a break and stop the logging and then use the "Resume later" function. Many people use it without even thinking of it if the Auto Pause function is activated. When the speed goes down below a defined threshold the device will automatically stop and when your speed goes up the logging starts again. This can be used in way more extreme ways and here is when it goes into the somewhat gray area of cheating to get badges. It will be up to you how you define it and use this function. Do you think that running 100 miles is...

Garmin has added a number of badges for recording up to 200 activities of the same type, for example walking, yoga, breathwork, treadmill and strength training. For someone like me that usually don't do so much walking since I'm a runner it is hard to log all those walking activities. I would also like to avoid logging silly two minute walks just to get those badges and don't want to flood the news feed in Garmin Connect with all those activities. The trick I'm using to log many walking activities without really doing so much walking is to use the multisport function in the watch. Not all watches support that function. I think that all Forerunners and Fenix watches got it. Check the specifications for your watch. The function is basically that you can switch activity type during an activity and Garmin Connect will hold all those activities together as a single activity. Note that Strava doesn't support multisport activities so if you sync your data to Strava...

The Badge Challenges for July are almost identical to the ones in June. I was hoping for some new stuff and not just a repetition. They switched out the 40 km biking and added two new: 4 hours of biking and 4 hours of walking (none must be done in single activity). Note that you can't join them just yet, but they will for sure be available July 1. July 1-31: Run 100 miles 3-5: Walk 3 miles in a single activity (4.83 km) 6-12: Bike 100 km (62.1 miles) in 7 days 10-12: Run 10 km in a single activity 13-26: Record 150.000 steps in 14 days 24-26: 40 km of cycling in a single activity 25-31: 4 Hours of Cycling 25-31: 4 Hours of Walking Update 2020-07-08 Garmin is slowly rolling out the badges one at a time so you will have to check the challenges page before the starting dates for each challenge to join all challenges. Update 2020-07-28 The 4 hours of cycling and walking are still not live. Maybe Garmin skip those due to the outage. There is als...

Garmin just added twenty new badges! All are available in Garmin Connect now. I will not add all images to this post. Just the Zen Master 5 which you will be awarded with after 200 yoga activities. There are two new for indoor cycling probably due to Corona and that they now own Tacx. Bike for 4 hours and do a 50 miles ride on your trainer which is a nice addition to the previous 10 miles, 20 miles and 50 km indoor cycling badges. I also discovered that they fixed the "problem" with that you could get all those indoor cycling badges if you just did a 50 km ride. Now these badges work as they should. The big news is that they added badges for completing an activity a specific number of times.To get the last badge you have to do the activity 100-200 times. There is no time limit so no need to stress. The activity types are: Treadmill, yoga, breathwork, walking and strength training. Here is the full list: Indoor 4-Hour Ride  - Record a 4-hour indoor cycling activity. Indoor 50-...

Links back to Garmin added for the badge image and the metadata that is used for the badge. Click the badge to open up the overlay. Image - Click the badge image to open up a new window with the original image. Metadata - Click the link View metadata to open up a new window with the metadata used for the badge. To get a valid response from the service you must be logged in to Garmin Connect . If you get this error message you are not logged in: {"message":"HTTP 403 Forbidden","error":"WebApplicationException"} If you get this message the badge isn't found: {"message":"Invalid badge id","error":"BadRequestException"} Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting

Badges that got a limited time are now marked with a green clock icon if current time is between the start and end date. NOTE! A limitation is that the server time is used for the calculation. The server is using Swedish time zone which currently is Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) and in the winter it is Central European Time (UTC+1). Update 2020-06-01 If the start date is 7 days or less from the current time the clock icon will be orange. I changed the color to green for the badges that are up for grabs. Outdated badges will have the red color. Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting

The Global Running Day is held on the first Wednesday in June every year. Garmin had a badge last year and a badge is also available this year. The only requirement is that you must record a running activity on June 3. Any distance allowed. Global Running Day 2020 1 pts • Record a running activity on June 3, 2020. Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting

I wrote about my ideas for this function for a week ago and I was right. There is a new section in the challenge page for the badge challenges:  https://connect.garmin.com/modern/challenge I can see them in the Connect app under challenges but there are reports about users that don't see them there yet. Maybe the app needs an update. Use the web if you don't see them in the app. Join the challenges you would like to participate in and follow the rules. I don't see why you shouldn't join them all. "Without participation one can never hope to win." The blog post from Garmin: Link The requirements/rules for the challenges are the same as before. Below is what I wrote a week ago. June will be a busy month if you like to get all badges. June 1-30: Run 100 miles - 3.33 miles/day = 5.36 km/day 5-7: Walk 3 miles in a single activity (4.83 km) 8-14: Bike 100 km (62.1 miles) in 7 days 12-14: Run 10 km in a single activity 15-28: Take 150.000 steps in 14 days 19-21: Bike...

Garmin added four badges for the activity type Floor Climbing. Great that Garmin adds badges for more odd activities so we will test other activities than just ordinary running and biking. What is Floor Climbing? The "normal" term is probably Stair climbing:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stair_climbing Find a good flight of stairs, preferably a really long one and start climbing. There are 4 different distances or heights in this case since it is the ascent in feet that is counted. 1500, 1000, 735 and 334 feet which is 457, 305, 224 and 102 meters. If you get to the top and still haven't reached 1500 feet then just run down and repeat until you've reached the full ascent. Update 2020-05-22 In Garmin Forums it has beeen reported that you can't get multiple floor climbing badges for the same activity. You must do one activity for each badge. Virtual Climb - The Narrows 2 pts • Record a floor climbing activity with 334 feet of ascent. Vir...

Challenge Badges? Is this a new function from Garmin? Yesterday Garmin published new badge data with some interesting data. The badges are not public yet so we don't now what it really means, but we can always speculate :-) Ordinary badges got two data fields: "title" and "description" These six new badges got two extra fields: "challenge rule description" and "challenge rules summary" Since the description has the text "Join" it might imply that you need to join to be a part of it. Garmin already got the Challenges function so this would fit good in there with the added fields for rules. Since it start in June we will very soon find out. June will be a busy month if you like to get all badges. June 1-30: Run 100 miles - 3.33 miles/day = 5.36 km/day 5-7: Walk 3 miles in a single activity (4.83 km) 8-14: Bike 100 km (62.1 miles) in 7 days 12-14: Run 10 km in a single activity 15-28: Take 150....

The web site was growing a bit too big so it earned to get its own domain name. You can now find the page at:  https://garminbadges.com Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting

You can now see the related badges for a badge when you click them. I also connected several of the related badges that Garmin hasn't connected (yet): Diving, Treadmill, Indoor Cycling and maybe some more. Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting

Garmin also added badges for indoor running or more exact treadmill running. You will most likely have to record activities as "Treadmill running" to be awarded with them. I haven't got any of them yet so I can't tell you all the details. There are three different distances: 1 mile, 5 km and 10 km. You must run each distance in a separate activity. Not as with the indoor cycling badges where you can take them all in one activity. Update: I've received a report from a user that running 10 km on a treadmill only awarded him with the 10k badge. It seems like you can't count the same distance for multiple badges. Sounds logical when you think about it. Maybe you can take multiple badges if you add the distances together. A good test would be to run 1 mile + 5k = 6.6 km for two badges or 16.6 km to get all three. Update 2020-05-08: I did the test this morning. I first ran 17,3 km and then saved the activity. I was only awarded with the 10k badge. I ...

For about a year ago Garmin aquired Tacx which is a well-known manufacturer of bike trainers. A bike trainer or just trainer is a device that you hook up your road bike to to do indoor cycling instead of using an exercise or spinning bike. Now during the pandemic lots of people are biking on their trainers instead of going out on the roads so this is an ideal moment to add badges for indoor cycling. You don't have to use a trainer. You can use any indoor bike that can log distance to your watch. There are three different distances: 10 miles, 20 miles and 50 km. You can take all three in one go by biking the longest distance. That is at least what I did. In January I took the Speedy Century badge (100 miles biking under 5 hours which can be done indoors like I did) and I just made a minor edit to that activity and got all badges + Speed Century and 100-Mile Ride. Update 2020-05-08: I did a test today and used one of my old 50 km bike rides, uploaded the export to my other...

Badge with country requirement: Germany You can now see the country/location requirement for all badges. There is a filter dropdown added to the main page with the countries added to the database that will display just the badges for the selected country. Note that all regional badges currently got a limited time so you might have to check the "show outdated" checkbox to see them.  If you click a badge you will see the country requirement displayed in bold text. If you got information about the country requirement for a badge then please let me know. Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting

Here is one of those more odd badges. By doing a breathwork activity you will get the Deep Breathing badge. Here is how breathwork is described by Wikipedia : "Breathwork is a New Age term for various breathing practices in which the conscious control of breathing is said to influence a person's mental, emotional or physical state, with a claimed therapeutic effect. Breathwork has no proven positive health impact other than promoting relaxation and can cause distress." In yoga and meditation breathing is often in focus and there are many breathing exercises you can find by googling breathwork meditation, yoga breathing exercises or meditation breathing exercises. There has popped up a number of videos during the Corona pandemic with breathing exercises. That might also be an idea to test and record it as breathwork. Deep Breathing 1 pt • Record 1 breathwork activity. Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting