Garmin Badges

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

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-...

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 has released a number of badges related to the Corona pandemic and the limited training that a lot of people can do during quarantine. Three of them are simple ones more for beginners and it is a good start for your training if you haven't been training before. 5 strength activities will give you the badge Super Strength. 5 yoga activities will give you the badge Zen Master. 5 walking activities will give you the badge Walk the Walk. Update: There seems to be some issues with the Zen Master badge. Multiple users have reported that they haven't been awarded with the badge even after doing more than 5 yoga activities. Super Strength 1 pt Record 5 strength training activities. Zen Master 1 pt Record 5 yoga activities. Walk the Walk 1 pt Record 5 walking activities. Garmin Badge Database Garmin Connect Change country setting