October 2025 - Challenges and Badges
Join the October challenges now in Garmin Connect.
Three month challenges - Stage 4
First month in Stage 4.
2025 Running - Stage 4
Join this challenge and record 300 kilometers (186.5 miles) of running activities from October 1 to December 31.
2025 Walking - Stage 4
Join this challenge and record 92 miles (148 km) of walking activities from October 1 to December 31.
2025 Cycling - Stage 4
Join this challenge and record 675 kilometers (419.5 miles) of cycling activities from October 1 to December 31.
Full month challenges
October Steps Podium
Join this challenge and finish in the top 3 of at least one weekly steps challenge from September 29 to November 2.
October Photo Share
Join this challenge and add a photo to 3 or more activities that are visible to others in October.
October Likes
Join this challenge and receive a total of 25 or more likes on activities, posts or comments in October.
October Time to Walk
Join this challenge and record 15 hours of walking activities in October.
October Time to Ride
Join this challenge and record 20 hours of cycling activities in October.
October 15K
Join this challenge and record a 15-kilometer running activity in October.
October Step Month
Join this challenge and record 300,000 steps in October.
October Gains
Join this challenge and record a total of 4 hours of strength activities in October.
October Rundown
Join this challenge and record 50 miles of running activities in October.
Active October
Join this challenge and record 20 activities of at least 20 minutes each in October.
October Swim
Join this challenge and record 4,000 meters of swimming activities in October.
October Warrior
Join this challenge and record a total of 4 hours of yoga activities in October.
October Tour
Join this challenge and record 400 kilometers of cycling activities in October.
Full month challenges Connect+
October Battery Booster
Join this challenge and achieve a Body Battery level of 76 or higher for 7 days in October.
October Calorie Burn
Join this challenge and burn 8,000 active calories in October.
Intense October
Join this challenge and reach your intensity minutes goal on two different weeks from September 29 to November 2.
October Meditations
Join this challenge and record meditation activities for 7 days in October.
Low Stress October
Join this challenge and maintain a daily average stress level of 50 or lower for 7 days in October.
October Intense Cardio
Join this challenge and record at least 3 hours of cardio activities in heart rate zone 3 in October.
October Power Cycling
Join this challenge and record at least 4 hours of cycling activities in power zone 3 in October.
October Heart Walks
Join this challenge and record at least 3 hours of walking in heart rate zones 2 or 3 in October.
October Speed Walking
Join this challenge and record at least 3 hours of walking with an average pace of 10:30 /km (16:50 /mi) or faster in October.
October Epic Hikes
Join this challenge and record 1,000 meters of total ascent during hiking activities in October.
October Running Climbs
Join this challenge and record 500 meters of total ascent during running activities in October.
Weekend and week challenges
Step into October
Join this challenge and record 100,000 steps from October 1-14.
October Weekend 5K
Join this challenge and record a 5-kilometer running activity from October 3-5.
October Weekend 40K
Join this challenge and record a 40-kilometer cycling activity from October 10-12.
October Swim Week
Join this challenge and record 1,000 meters of swimming activities from October 12-18.
October Weekend 10K
Join this challenge and record a 10-kilometer running activity from October 17-19.
October Ride to 100
Join this challenge and record 100 kilometers of cycling activities from October 19-25.
October Weekend Walking
Join this challenge and record a 3-mile walking activity from October 24-26.
Badges in October
Note: The listed country requirements are based on the country requirements from previous years.
- Oct 5 - Garmin Run Asia Series 2025 - Vietnam 5K, Record a 5K run during the Garmin Run Asia Series - Vietnam on October 5, 2025.
- Oct 5 - Garmin Run Asia Series 2025 - Vietnam 10K, Record a 10K run during the Garmin Run Asia Series - Vietnam on October 5, 2025.
- Oct 5 - Garmin Run Asia Series 2025 - Vietnam 21K, Record a 21K run during the Garmin Run Asia Series - Vietnam on October 5, 2025.
- Oct 6 - Mid-Autumn Festival 2025, Record an activity on Mid-Autumn Festival, October 6, 2025. Country: China Mainland, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Japan, Korea, Republic of, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam
- Oct 9 - Hangul Day, Record an activity on Hangul Day, October 9, 2025. Country: Korea, Republic of
- Oct 12 - Garmin Run Asia Series 2025 - Singapore 10K, Record a 10K run during the Garmin Run Asia Series - Singapore on October 12, 2025.
- Oct 12 - Garmin Run Asia Series 2025 - Singapore 21K, Record a 21K run during the Garmin Run Asia Series - Singapore on October 12, 2025.
- Oct 12 - Garmin Deejay Ten Milano 5K 2025, Run the Deejay Ten 5K in Milano, Italy, on October 12, 2025.
- Oct 12 - Garmin Deejay Ten Milano 10K 2025, Run the Deejay Ten 10K in Milano, Italy, on October 12, 2025.
- Oct 18 - Garmin Run Asia Series 2025 - Korea 5K, Record a 5K run during the Garmin Run Asia Series - Korea on October 18, 2025.
- Oct 18 - Garmin Run Asia Series 2025 - Korea 10K, Record a 10K run during the Garmin Run Asia Series - Korea on October 18, 2025.
- Oct 18 - Garmin KC Marathon 2025, Run the Garmin Kansas City Marathon October 18, 2025.
- Oct 18 - Garmin KC Half Marathon 2025, Run the Garmin Kansas City Half Marathon on October 18, 2025.
- Oct 18 - Garmin KC Marathon 10K 2025, Run the Garmin Kansas City Marathon 10K on October 18, 2025.
- Oct 18 - Garmin KC Marathon 5K 2025, Run the Garmin Kansas City Marathon 5K on October 18, 2025.
- Oct 19 - Garmin Run Asia Series 2025 - Thailand 10K, Record a 10K run during the Garmin Run Asia Series - Thailand on October 19, 2025.
- Oct 19 - Garmin Run Asia Series 2025 - Thailand 21.1K, Record a 21.1K run during the Garmin Run Asia Series - Thailand on October 19, 2025.
- Oct 20 - Deepavali 2025, Record an activity on Deepavali, October 20, 2025. Country: Malaysia, Singapore
- Oct 26 - Garmin Run Asia Series 2025 - Philippines 5K, Record a 5K run during the Garmin Run Asia Series - Philippines on October 26, 2025.
- Oct 26 - Garmin Run Asia Series 2025 - Philippines 10K, Record a 10K run during the Garmin Run Asia Series - Philippines on October 26, 2025.
- Oct 26 - Garmin Run Asia Series 2025 - Philippines 21K, Record a 21K run during the Garmin Run Asia Series - Philippines on October 26, 2025.
- Oct 31 - Halloween 2025, Record an activity on Halloween, October 31, 2025.
Garmin Badge Database
Garmin Connect
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Is there missing a "October Time to Run" badge?
ReplyDeleteGarmin changes the challenges slightly every month. It isn't available this month.
DeleteUnderstood, thank you!
DeleteHi. To earn any of the run asia or hangoul or autumn festival, will it be enough for me to do the activity in the US? What is i use a mock location GPS app and put the GPS location in Asia and go run the half marathon here in the USA but at my watch to running on a treadmill? Will that work or do I need to do more?
ReplyDeleteFor Hangul and Mid-Autumn you only need to change the country in your Garmin account.
DeleteFor the race badges you must run at the correct location.
Thank you. Do any of these Garmin events offer virtual runs?
DeleteNot likely.
DeleteMid-Autumn Festival and Hangul should also be available for Connect+ users without any changes in the location. There is a "world-wide badges" in the settings
DeleteI changed my country to Republic of Korea and I do see the Mid-autumn badge, but not the Hangul badge. In which country do you really see the Hangul badge?
DeleteHangul badge is not repeatable.
DeleteAh... Any chance you can indicate this in the future? i.e add (R) or (1) after the badge name?
DeleteI can indicate if the badge is repeatable. This badge is the old Hangul badge we've had since it was added. It is the last non repeatable badge that comes back every year. All others have been ended by Garmin.
DeleteWe only got two repeatable badges left: Finish Strong and Strong Start. Except for the 4 badges for Marvel and Star Wars.
What Garmin does is to add the year after the badges that are new and possible to take.
Sort of, Look at the Garmin KC marathon site
ReplyDeleteWhat is a virtual race?
A virtual race is a race that can be run (or walked) from any location you choose. You get to run your own race, at your own pace, and time it yourself. Best of all, your participant shirt and finisher medal will be shipped directly to you! Register for the Garmin Kansas City virtual 5K, 10K, Half Marathon, or Full Marathon today!
Note that it still requires that you register, and probably pay the entrance fee.
Beste, Andy Ik heb 22.6km gelopen op 05/10/25 en de landsinstelling had ik gewijzigd naar Vietnam. Toch krijg ik de badge niet van de Garmin Run Asia Series 2025. Is daar een reden voor of heb ik iets verkeerd gedaan ? Mvg, Rik Vandenhende
ReplyDeleteYou have to run the actual course in Vietnam. Changing the country got no effect on those badges.
DeleteDas raar, er staat registreer een activiteit TIJDENS de Garmin run Asia en toch niet IN Vietnam
DeleteMvg, Vandenhende Rik
It is still a race badge. You are supposed to run the race. Send feedback to Garmin to be more clear in the descriptions.
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Delete@ Vandenhende Rik
In a previous post I mentioned that you could Virtual run the KC marathon. Sometimes they will also post that you can do that for other marathons. You need to check. You need to register. You need to pay the entrance/registration fee before the race starts, even if you actually perform the race somewhere else in the world, i.e. Virtual raceing.
ALSO usually you can only WALK the 5k, sometimes the 10k but I have never seen a WALK allowed for the Marathon.
So I'm not suprised you did not get the badge.
It doesn't matter for the badges if you register for the virtual race. It is unrelated.
DeleteI signed up for the KC half marathon virtual. I live in Florida. So you are saying I won't get the badge?
DeleteThe sign up doesn't matter. It is the activity that you upload to Garmin Connect that must meet the requirements.
DeleteI do plan on running three half marathon distance. I sign up because I wanted the badge but would have run the distance anyway because it's my long day run and I'm training for a marathon. Yes I will get the shirt and the participation medal but i thought it would be cool to get the badge. Does anyone knows of anyone else that had been able to get this badge registering and running a virtual race?
DeleteNaar waar stuur ik de feedback bij Garmin en het was geen WALK hé, het ging hier wel over een 5 - 10 - of 21 km run. Maar misschien weten ze het bij Garmin
ReplyDeleteMvg, Vandenhende Rik
Not sure what you mean with 5, 10 or 21 km run and not a walk. Noone has said anything about a walk.
DeleteBugs: https://support.garmin.com
Suggestions: https://garmin.com/ideas
Maybe Google's translator was wrong.
ReplyDeleteI got: "Dear, Andy I walked 22.6km on 05/10/25 and the country setting I had changed to Vietnam."
My Google Translate got "Hi Andy, I ran 22.6 km on October 5, 2025, and I changed the country setting to Vietnam."
DeleteIt is probably still some incorrect translation somewhere in the discussion here.
A.I. is bad enough, now we need to double check translations from the same company. Google.
ReplyDeleteBeste, Heb een mailtje gestuurd naar Garmin en hopelijk krijg ik antwoord. Laat het weten. Mvg, Vandenhende Rik
ReplyDeleteWeekday is Garmin's email address?
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ReplyDeleteProduct.Support@garmin.com
11:28 (9 uur geleden)
aan mij
Beste Rik,
Bedankt voor het contacteren van Garmin support
De badges die voor andere landen zijn , kan je via Connect + aanduiden als je die wil behalen door een speciale functie.
Beantwoord dit uw vraag? Als je nog vragen heb, kan je ons altijd contacteren.
Met vriendelijke groeten – Meilleures salutations – Best Regards.
Alexander
Connect+ dat is betalend, als dit zo is, als ze het over deze boeg gaan gooien zullen er veel afhaken denk ik. 😕
That doesn't cover Race badges.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can tell that was probably an A.I. response because they did not really answer the question you've been posting about.,
They almost never answer the question, nor do show signs of comprehension. The only patters I see is that they copy&paste some text from the knowledge base that has the phrase in the first few words of the question. Of course, now that I think about it it could be AI, but frankly, AI does better than that nowadays, so I would still think it's mostly unmotivated employees
DeleteAny one have any idea why the option to like someone else's activities seems to have disappeared sometime in September?
ReplyDeleteIt works when I test it now. Both in the news feed and in the profile for a user.
DeleteThanks Andy. It was through the web app I was having an issue. It seems to have come right now.
DeleteI have done an activity today but haven´t got the Hangul Badge. Anyone else ??
ReplyDeleteFirst make sure you see the badge listed as an available badge. If you don't see then you either already got it (it isn't repeatable) or you haven't set your account to the correct country (Korea, Republic of).
DeleteI tested it with a test account and got the badge so it is working.
Oh, havent seen that it is not repeatable. I allready got it. THX
Delete@Peder i was confused as well. @e7andy you right. I had a look on my badges achived so far. The Hangul Badge I already have ( received in 2023 during my walk activity). That is the reason why I couldn`t see it this year. Thanks for your help and made it clear. Not repeatable - 9th of October is day when we can have it.
ReplyDeleteI was confused as well and looked at it . Once I checked my achived badges I recognised that I have it already.
ReplyDeleteJust spotted an error with the stage 4 walking badge. The Garmin description says 92 miles but in Connect it shows me that I have currently completed 75.1 of 91 miles....so it seems it will take 1 mile less to complete that challenge, 91 instead of 92.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. For me it's 146.5km, I always assumed it's based on some whole number of miles, but now I'm not that sure. Not that this (or 1 mile less or more) matters that much
DeleteOk so that's about 91 miles in km then. Agreed the mile / 1.6km makes no real difference really but just flagging the difference in description versus progress indicator.
DeleteWhat doesn't make a lot of sense to me is that the October Time to Ride Badge and the October Tour Badge are both only worth 1 point. Those are a lot of work compared to the October Ride to 100 badge which is worth 2 points.
ReplyDeleteI guess that depends on who you ask. My 6 years old son sometimes manages to get the 20h ride badge (partially because his watch doesn't have auto pause) but not the 100km badge. In general I noticed that Garmin give more points for achievements in a shorter time frame.
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