March 2026 - Challenges and Badges

  

Join the March challenges now in Garmin Connect.

Three month challenges - Stage 1

Third month in Stage 1.

2026 Cycling - Stage 1
Join this challenge and record 675 kilometers (419.43 miles) of cycling activities from January 1 to March 31.

2026 Running - Stage 1
Join this challenge and record 300 kilometers (186.42 miles) of running activities from January 1 to March 31.

2026 Walking - Stage 1
Join this challenge and record 91 miles (146.5 km) of walking activities from January 1 to March 31.

Full month challenges

March Steps Podium
Join this challenge and finish in the top 3 of at least one weekly steps challenge from March 2-29.

March Time to Swim
Join this challenge and record 4 hours of swimming activities in March.

March Time to Run
Join this challenge and record 10 hours of running activities in March.

March Time to Ride
Join this challenge and record 20 hours of cycling activities in March.

March Walking
Join this challenge and record 30 miles of walking activities in March.

March Warrior
Join this challenge and record a total of 4 hours of yoga activities in March.

Active March
Join this challenge and record 20 activities of at least 20 minutes each in March.

March Rundown
Join this challenge and record 50 miles of running activities in March.

March Step Month
Join this challenge and record 300,000 steps in March.

March Gains
Join this challenge and record a total of 4 hours of strength activities in March.

March Likes
Join this challenge and receive a total of 25 or more likes on activities, posts or comments in March.

March Photo Share
Join this challenge and add a photo to 3 or more activities that are visible to others in March.

Full month challenges Connect+

March Calorie Burn
Join this challenge and burn 8,000 active calories in March.

Intense March
Join this challenge and reach your intensity minutes goal on two different weeks from March 2-29

March Battery Booster
Join this challenge and achieve a Body Battery level of 76 or higher for 7 days in March.

March Meditations
Join this challenge and record meditation activities for 7 days in March.

Low Stress March
Join this challenge and maintain a daily average stress level of 50 or lower for 7 days in March.

March Intense Cardio
Join this challenge and record at least 3 hours of cardio activities in heart rate zone 3 in March.

March Power Cycling
Join this challenge and record at least 4 hours of cycling activities in power zone 3 in March.

March Heart Walks
Join this challenge and record at least 3 hours of walking in heart rate zones 2 or 3 in March.

March 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 March.

March Epic Hikes
Join this challenge and record 1,000 meters of total ascent during hiking activities in March.

March Running Climbs
Join this challenge and record 500 meters of total ascent during running activities in March.

Weekend and week challenges

March Swim Week
Join this challenge and record 1,000 meters of swimming activities from March 1-7.


March Ride to 200
Join this challenge and record 200 kilometers of cycling activities from March 1-14.


March Weekend 5K
Join this challenge and record a 5-kilometer running activity from March 6-8.


March Weekend 10K
Join this challenge and record a 10-kilometer running activity from March 13-15.

March Ride to 100
Join this challenge and record 100 kilometers of cycling activities from March 15-21.

March Weekend Walking
Join this challenge and record a 3-mile walking activity from March 20-22.


March Weekend 40K
Join this challenge and record a 40-kilometer cycling activity from March 27-29.

Badges in March

Note: The listed country requirements are based on the country requirements from previous years. 

  • March 3 - Light Up the Night 2026, Record an activity on Lantern Festival, March 3, 2026. Country: China Mainland, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Republic of, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam

  • March 8 - Noble Warrior Hero,  Record an activity on International Women's Day (March 8) using your Captain Marvel watch. Repeatable

  • March 8 - International Women's Day 2026, Record an activity on International Women's Day, March 8, 2026.

New badges

  • Incredible Ireland, Complete the Incredible Ireland challenge in the Tacx Training app.
  • Ride With The Pros 2026, Complete the Ride with the Pros 2026 challenge in the Tacx Training app.

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Comments

  1. Gavriel25 February, 2026 01:21

    Andy, in the "my badges" page, when we click on a badge (and we see the description and related badges in the popup), can you also display the last time the badge was earned (badgeEarnedDate) and how many times I have it?

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    1. e7andy25 February, 2026 09:03

      Those are good suggestions. It would also be nice to see the progress for the badges that got that. Yeah, pretty much show everything that is displayed for the badges in Garmin Connect.

      Delete
  2. Chrono5925 February, 2026 06:11

    I can no longer change the country in my GARMIN.COM profile as I previously did to retrieve badges from other countries.

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    1. e7andy25 February, 2026 09:00

      That is correct. Garmin has removed that possibility. To change country you have to contact Garmin Support, so it isn't anything you will do to get badges.

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    2. Chrono5925 February, 2026 09:15

      So that means we can say goodbye to collecting badges from countries other than our own... we can no longer "surf" from country to country to collect as many badges as possible.

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    3. Chrono5925 February, 2026 09:18

      except via Garmin Connect+... which is a good way to force some members to subscribe to the paid option.

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    4. Gavriel25 February, 2026 15:00

      I am "stuck" in Taiwan. Not the worst place, as the far east countries have the most country specific badges :)

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    5. Mino Pausa25 February, 2026 21:42

      I have a question for those of you who know more than me: why doesn't my request reach them if I click the "connect" button on a profile picture? Thanks.

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    6. Gavriel26 February, 2026 00:22

      How do you know? Are you standing next to your friend? Or they are just not responding? Most people don't know where to approve. I think this is mostly because of a bad user interface by Garmin

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    7. Mino Pausa26 February, 2026 07:31

      Your observation is correct, but I tried with friends. I disconnected from them and tried to reconnect. My request never arrived. They invited me to reconnect.

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  3. Lis26 February, 2026 11:36

    Does anyone else experience problems with there Garmin detecting there swim laps since the update of the 12th of February (or around that time). Since the update my Venu 4 barely counts laps . So it is impossible to get the swim badges now.

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    1. e7andy26 February, 2026 12:00

      There seems to be some issue with the swim activity on Venu 4: https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/healthandwellness/f/venu-4-series

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    2. Lis26 February, 2026 12:15

      Thank you for your message. It seems like a lot of people are having this problem. I hope Garmin will fix this soon.

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  4. Gavriel26 February, 2026 21:34

    Instead of the "International Women's Day 2026" there's the "Noble Warrior Hero" badge in the calendar.

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    1. e7andy26 February, 2026 21:36

      They are on the same day. International Women's Day 2026 hasn't been added by Garmin yet.
      I forgot about Noble Warrior Hero. It is an old badge that comes every year.

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  5. Gavriel26 February, 2026 23:42

    If someone is planning to ask Garmin to switch country, here are the number of badges in each country so far:
    1 ro
    5 at
    5 fi
    5 mx
    5 pl
    5 si
    6 cz
    6 dk
    6 no
    6 nz
    7 be
    7 se
    9 au
    9 ca
    10 es
    10 fr
    10 it
    11 de
    11 nl
    11 us
    16 cn
    17 in
    18 gb
    20 kr
    22 vn
    23 hk
    26 sg
    27 ph
    29 id
    31 jp
    32 my
    37 tw
    45 th

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    1. Beet27 February, 2026 08:27

      Will you ask Garmin to change your location to Thailand? :)

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    2. John27 February, 2026 19:22

      Hi all! Hmm this is by far not fair. People cannot get those badges, even with recording the specific activities. However there are lots of special things to earn. What kind of morbid joke is this to limit to specific countries? Are other people below them or less as human beings? No wonder where this world is heading nowadays...

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    3. e7andy27 February, 2026 20:26

      There has always been badges restricted to certain countries. First was in 2019.
      You can get most of them with Connect+ and global badges.

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    4. John28 February, 2026 19:31

      Thanks for the reply, I am aware of that. But unfortunately cannot afford to pay 90 euros for it. Also how lucky are those from the states, paying much less around 70 usd.

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    5. Unknown03 March, 2026 19:36

      Totally agree. 90€ is too much. Badges programme is lossing interest to me. Now is a VIP club. You pay more, you get more badges. It is not related to train more anymore. Not challenging me, just my wallet.

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    6. John05 March, 2026 17:18

      Unfortunately true, after a while it's gonna be impossible to keep up with my 'premium' contacts and that is the end of the healthy and enjoyable competition. So sad. Why everything has to be ruined?

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    7. Scotroutes15 March, 2026 22:55

      Many badges are only available to those with certain (mpre expensive) watches. The Tacx badges are only available to those who pay a Tacx subscription. Connect+ has only shifted the goalposts a little.

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  6. dmmac27 February, 2026 00:05

    Has anyone else noticed a change in the 30 day in row badges? In the past if I missed a day I could do an extra walk and edit the date to fill the gap. This doesn't seem to work now - I was getting the walk 30 badge around 8th of each month, but for Feb it was not awarded until 23rd Feb. Or is it that since the badge was already awarded 23 Feb and extra activity added for mid January after this the award date cant change, I hope that makes sense!

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    1. Gavriel27 February, 2026 00:27

      Try to move the activity from 23rd Feb to January (wherever it was missing)

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    2. dmmac27 February, 2026 02:00

      Thanks - tried that but seems stuck!

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    3. Vincent Jones04 March, 2026 01:34

      This comment has been removed by the author.

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  7. Robert28 February, 2026 18:19

    Hi. I recently came across your garminbadges.com site, and I must say it’s very impressive. Thanks again and keep up the great work! Robert

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  8. Vishal03 March, 2026 04:14

    It looks like Light up the Night 2026 badge is not applicable to India region. I recorded 3 activities today but didn't get the badge.

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    1. e7andy03 March, 2026 07:27

      Since we no longer can switch countries it is hard to test all valid countries. Double check that you got India set as country in your account: http://garmin.com/account

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    2. Gavriel03 March, 2026 09:31

      It's not because of that. This year it's not available in India. On the other hand it is available in Hong Kong (not on your list)

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    3. e7andy03 March, 2026 09:45

      I've updated the countries. How do you know which countries it is available in?

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    4. Gavriel03 March, 2026 10:28

      I do what you do: have created different accounts for each country :) I have a modified version of your python script, and it downloads the badges from these countries: ["il","hk", "tw", "th", "cn", "jp", "sg", "my", "kr", "ph", "gb", "nl", "us", "id", "in", "vn"]. Your current list matches what I found. Of course there might be other countries I haven't tried. Here's the script: https://gist.github.com/flocsy/b31edc6a742be9ba4a1b327da21ccd11

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    5. e7andy03 March, 2026 10:33

      Wow! Good work! You have put a lot of effort into that.

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  9. Emma07 March, 2026 19:19

    I don't see either of the new Tacx challenges in the app - are they not live yet?

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  10. Piou08 March, 2026 08:54

    Bonjour Andy
    Je n' arrive plus à importer des données avec le code de la montre captain Marvel
    Sais tu si Garmin a aussi verrouillé le changement de montre dans le fichier .tcx?

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    1. e7andy08 March, 2026 09:02

      There is an issue in Garmin Connect with importing tcx and gpx files.

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    2. Piou08 March, 2026 09:33

      Merci Andy je vais patienter
      Pour info Ça n a pas fonctionné avec un fichier . fit

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    3. Gavriel08 March, 2026 10:26

      It works with fit file and https://www.fitfiletools.com/changer

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    4. Joanna08 March, 2026 11:29

      It works with some files, and it doesn't with others. No rule - must be some bug

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    5. PaulM08 March, 2026 13:57

      Well I wish I had read this before I deleted my activity in preparation for reimporting it! Won't even import using the unmodified export.

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    6. Chrono5916 March, 2026 07:49

      It works perfectly... but only on the FIREFOX web browser

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  11. Eto Demerzel10 March, 2026 09:38

    Have any of you encountered problems importing activities into the web application?

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    1. Gavriel10 March, 2026 12:46

      no, it worked with fit files yesterday

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    2. Chrono5916 March, 2026 07:51

      try with FIREFOX web browser for connecting your Garmin Connect account

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  12. Mic11 March, 2026 08:28

    Hi, the first Tacx Challenges “Incredible Ireland” is now online.

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  13. Mino Pausa12 March, 2026 06:41

    I read that some people were already watching the April challenges. Is there a 15km race? Thanks.

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    1. e7andy12 March, 2026 08:42

      I haven't seen anything about them yet. Sometimes this German Garmin site publishes the challenges very very early: https://de.beatyesterday.org/active/garmin-produkte-und-features/garmin-badges/
      But nothing there yet.

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