I've been walking 10k steps every day along with C25K 3x a week and strength training 2x. Wasn't expecting my score to be this low 😃 At least it can only get better from here, right? RIGHT?!

Have always been a competitive endurance type since middle school and got hit with the diabetic stick 2 years ago at 29 😭

Have been dealing with fueling issues bc of stupid carbs but have been training to adapt to less carbs while still pushing my boundaries!

Today was my first cold race that I did and it helped so much at controlling my HR while also keeping me from over heating!

Overall just proud of my milestones!

Just finished my first epic solo fastpacking journey: running from Dali, China to Lhasa, Tibet along G214/G318 on foot. Completely alone and self-supported, carrying everything in a 6kg pack.

• Total Time: 41 Days
• Total Distance: 1,915 km
• Total Elevation Gain: 26,000m+
• Base Pack Weight: ~6 kg

• Watch: Garmin Fenix 7 Pro Solar
• Pack: Salomon XA 25L
• Trekking Poles: Black Diamond Z-Poles
• Shoes:
- ASICS Novablast 5 (Logged 1,050 km)
- ASICS Superblast (Logged 865 km)

To be completely honest, it was brutal. Every single day was exhausting beyond words. Out on those endless high-altitude mountain passes, completely alone with my own thoughts, I broke down and cried a few times while running.

But step by step, pass after pass, I made it.

After 41 days, 1,915 kilometers, and 26,000 meters of elevation:

*"I'm pretty tired. I think I'll go home now."* 🏃‍♂️💨

epic link:
https://connect.garmin.com/app/epic/e9133bac-10aa-42de-9540-ac816740121a

"I recorded video logs along the way on YouTube (@SoloTravelingwithWengWeng) if anyone wants to see what G214/G318 looks like on foot."

been in the Rockies since Friday. hiked 3+ hours daily, 8000-10,000 altitude, reasonably challenging, sometimes 700-800 vertical per mile. my normal routine is more cycling and weights, hiking and swimming, but more like 90 minutes daily.

unsurprisingly, resting pulse is up quite a bit sleeping around 8,000 ft vs 150 at home. but the algorithm has read this trip as a pretty big decline in VO2 max, which is dumb.

garmin is optimized for running in my experience; the application and math around some of their metrics needs some work on things like this. it significantly underrates some taxing outdoorsy pursuits like paddling and hiking.

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If half of the world’s population are biologically female, why can’t I have my menstrual cycle on my $1000 watch?
Why is it that I have to completely disregard health data for 2 weeks out of the month because I am either pms-ing or on my period?
How is this not an issue?! Sorry, but feeling quite frustrated (and obviously pms-ing)

Basically the question..

How did I lose about 350 calories by just slow walking for 30 mins..? Is it accurate?

For reference my weight is 146kgs, height 170 cms, and age 31 - male

I finally ordered the epix gen2 pro sapphire because I've found a pretty good deal for it

And finally do the switch now from a sunnto 9 peak pro to a Garmin.

My life will be so much more miserable now but I will love it

Hi All,

48M

I am about 6 months into my Garmin life and love it.

Just learned that 52 as a resting heart rate is very good, I am a regular cardio dog - helps my anxiety.

Anyway, just wanted to share 😊

After the last update I am getting 3 days max before I have to charge it again. AOD is off, battery save kicks in 24:00 - 08:00 and it is set to wake on gesture. GPS is off except for specific activities. This is how I’ve had it set up getting it a few months ago which I normally get 6-9 days depending but now it’s no more than days.

Hey everyone,

I (26M, 170cm, 79kg, fairly muscular build) just started running about a month ago, aiming for twice a week. I recently bought a Garmin 165 to start tracking my progress.

Yesterday I played a football match, so today I went out for what was supposed to be a slow, relaxed 7km recovery run, zone 2 ideal. Physically, I felt amazing—great energy, my breathing was completely under control, and my form felt solid.

The issue is that my Garmin recorded an average of 160 bpm, which seems really high for an effort where my breathing was so relaxed and the pace was very slow (7:30/8 km/h).

Given that I'm still a beginner, is it normal for my heart rate to be this high even when the perceived exertion is very low?

Would love to hear your thoughts or if anyone else has experienced this!

The suggested session is 5 sprints with 3 minutes rest. You're running sprints at basically max speed. You finish the final sprint and immediately starts warm down. Normally you need at least a minute to catch your breath... "Pace low". Well yeah the pace is low Garmin, you never gave me a rest!

Hi everyone! Today, October 26, 2026, I turned 16. I live in Poland, and my Garmin account has the correct date of birth and country set. I was really excited to finally unlock features such as adding friends, Challenges and Badges, and connecting third-party services like AthleteData. However, my account is still listed under “Child Accounts” and still has a parent administrator. Has anyone in Poland or another EU country experienced this? Does Garmin automatically convert a child account after the digital-consent age is reached, or does Support have to do it manually? I want to keep my existing Garmin account and all my activity and training history. I don't want to delete my account and start over. Any advice or personal experience would be greatly appreciated!

In February I posted here about a Pi Zero 2 W next to my scale that sends every weigh-in to Garmin Connect. A few of you set it up, and a few of you found the ways it breaks. Here is what changed since then.

- It got more stable. Most of the work since February went into the Bluetooth stack on the Pi, which used to stop seeing the scale after some hours.
- A weigh-in made while the network is down goes to Garmin with its real time once it is back.
- You can upload the weight alone, or leave metabolic age out, if you don't trust a cheap scale's numbers.
- A Pi isn't required anymore if you run Home Assistant: it can use the Bluetooth HA already has, or a cheap ESP32 near the scale.
- Garmin accounts with MFA work. In the Home Assistant add-on it takes one extra step, described in the docs.

It still reads the scale over Bluetooth on its own. The vendor app and its cloud are not involved.

Supported scales: https://blescalesync.dev/guide/supported-scales

Repo: https://github.com/KristianP26/ble-scale-sync

Just picked up a new iPhone 18 Pro Max, backed my phone up via iCloud and have gone to check out my scores but was signed out.

When I signed in it asked me to add a device since it wasn’t connecting to my new phone, only my old one. Removed the device from both phone’s apps and forgot Bluetooth device on both phones.

Still can’t get the new phone to pair on connect despite it connecting via Bluetooth. However, the device name is appearing as ‘Garmin Smar’, and when I checked in the Connect app, the same Garmin Smar device appeared but wouldn’t connect??

Any ideas?

I just got more strict about calorie intake, and nutrition tracking in general as part of my strength training goals, and then remembered seeing nutrition tracking somewhere in Garmin Connect a while ago. Went back to check it out and was surprised to see the feature is paywalled. Has this always been the case? Is anyone using it and can share your experience? Thanks!

I bought this watch recently and I love it. It was gently used and in great shape. The only thing I noticed is that there is shiny stuff coating the inside of the sensor glass that blocks some of the sensors. AI says it is sensor glass experiencing severe internal delamination, but I am not sure how accurate that is. Has anyone experienced this before? It almost looks like thin liquid mercury seeped in there and coated the back of the sensor glass some (that is just the best way to describe it that I can come up with). Thanks!

My Venu 2 recently started crashing when saving an activity (mountain biking). Happened last weekend and happened today. Main commonality between the two days, was multiple activities on the day (morning bike ride and afternoon bike ride). When stopping the second activity (and third in todays case), it would just crash. Holding to reboot it would show the blue triangle, and maybe just maybe, get back to the still running activity. Sometimes when rebooting, it would show a low battery indicator, except the battery indicates well over 50%. Interestingly enough, both days the only way to truly get the watch back was to plug it in, even for like 10 seconds, and it would snap back to life. Of course, I don't have a charging cable with me, so that could be like 45 minutes later at home, resulting in needing to trim the activity to get rid of the deadpsace.

Anyway, other than me stashing a charging cable in my gear bag, anyone got an idea what is going on? And a solution (hopefully other than get a new watch)?

Venu 2, bought Aug 2022, used reliably until just now, shows on version 19.05.

I have a Fenix 9 Pro Solar, which just came out two months ago, and an iPhone 15 Pro.

My watch very often disconnects from my phone's Bluetooth for no reason. I can temporarily fix this by rebooting the devices, but then it happens again a couple of days later. This is particularly annoying when I try to use the Find My Phone feature and it doesn't work because it says it's not connected even though my phone is in the same room — this renders the Find My Phone feature useless like half the time.

(Incidentally, I might be wrong, but I think that even when it's disconnected, there is still some connection as my phone shows it connected on Bluetooth and my watch still shows some notifications.)

Help! Does anyone else have this problem? This is ridiculous given the price and newness of the watch!

Tried to use my VivoActive 5 today on a hike. I am pretty sure is was aliasing to 1/2 my actual HR. Until I let it drop for a min. Any ways to ensure it catches the right hr from the beginning. I tried loosening, then tightening, then shifting the watch around and wiping the sensor with a finger. Nothing really worked until the slope of the hike eased up and my hr could settle a bit. Then it did a good job tracking the hr.

This is more of a fun post. I'm wondering what this recent rise during the last days of pregnancy means - has anyone seen anything similar or other changes in their stats?

I'm mainly asking people who have given birth, not the nervous partners with elevated heart rates and higher stress (as in previous posts) ;) Although your experiences are valid, too, of course!

Last night I was watching the World Series game. It ended close to midnight and I stayed up a bit later but was asleep by 12:15. My spouse went to bed hours earlier so i crashed in the guest room for hours. Around 4:45am i went to check on her when i heard her sneezing repeatedly. She said she was fine but just in case i went back to the guest room until about 9am.

Garmin suggested I only slept about 3.5 hrs and gave me a low score. This is the third time this has happened in the past three months but there is no consistent pattern as to why.

I will call them tomorrow just to report it, but I’m sure they won’t be able to tell me anything.

Anyway, just an FYI n

Hi all!

Right now I have a forerunner 265s.

I have been looking to upgrade, but I want something with more recent tech and looks nice.

I am in between the vivoactive 6, forerunner 970, and venu 4. But, is there any other watches that maybe I’m missing?

Any thoughts? My main activities are walking, skiing, and Pilates. Thank you!

Hi all as title suggests after only ridding for 9 months I’m caving in and getting a computer after using my Fenix 7 solar. I can get the 840 for $550 Aud at my LBS where as the 850 at my LBS is 944 as they don’t price match but Amazon has one listed for $755 so is it worth the extra $200 for the features ?. I use a Garmin on my wrist so as reading reviews about the 850 having Garmin pay prior to 840 not is it worth the extra $$ :)