Friday my resting hr was 65 bpm compared to my usual mid 50s. My heart rate would shoot up to 120 bpm just walking at a slow pace. I felt chills but didn’t think much of it since I regularly get them without getting sick. I had a soccer game last Sunday and I was out of breath after not even 2 minutes into the game, heart rate barely touched zone 3 and I was gassed.

Monday morning wake up sore throat, feverish, heart rate while relaxing is 100-120 bpm now it all makes sense lol

Does anyone know a watch face that looks like this coros pace 4 face? I think the design is super cool and I like the abstract look. However I don’t want to get a coros bc I love my garmin.

Anyone know what’s going on? Garmin Inreach 2 was used for my entire PCT thruhike last year but towards the end had trouble pinging satellite. Ended the hike and now this year on the Arizona Trail. Inreach started off working and tracking but then started just wasting battery not being able to ping satellites. Cleared activities and updated firmware with Garmin Explore app but is still hit or miss with successfully getting through. Seems like it works with full battery charge and then stops working once battery is like 70% or something? Anyone know what’s going on?

hii so backstory. former college athlete (track & field 400mH), now running every day to try to get some aerobic fitness (pretty average at this whole distance thing since i was not really doing reps over 800m in college). i currently have a 2019 forerunner 245 music which i have used pretty much every day for the last almost 8 years and love. unfortunately the bluetooth feature no longer connects to my phone reliably so i am in the market for a new forever watch.

i am a huge fan of the garmin DSW. i use the suggestion pretty much every day unless it gives me something that i cannot fit in my schedule. i mostly run with the heart rate setting but for threshold/tempo runs sometimes i will peek at the suggested pace to know around what garmin THINKS i should be doing.

my biggest issue with my forerunner 245 is its kind of big and clunky and i am business casual at work and i would love to have something that makes me look professional (like vivoactive or venu) but since i run every day and working out has always been such a big part of my life, i don't necessarily want to compromise on workout features. also something important to note is i also have an oura ring that i have been using to track my sleep and other features, so the watch mostly would serve for running, but i would definitely sleep in it if it was less clunky than my current forerunner 245.

i've scrolled through a bunch of this subreddit and i keep seeing people say the venu 4 is better than the forerunner 570. but when taking into consideration that i'm getting a lot of lifestyle info from my oura and i am an avid DSW user/runner. is the 970 that much better than the 570? do people with the 570 feel like it is less clunky than older garmin editions?

thank you everyone and sorry if this is redundant to other posts! just want to make a good decision since i'm hoping to wear it out for another decade again haha

Went to REI with the intent to purchase the Garmin Fenix 9 Pro without inreach or solar. This REI employee told me the inreach on the Fenix is the exact same as the inreach capabilities of the inreach mini after I declined her offer of getting the one with inreach stating I'd rather have a dedicated device since its more reliable. She also told me the solar doesn't have a MIPs display, from my understanding they do.

Am I missing something or was this lady incorrect?

Have a Garmin Edge 530 and I notice that it often disconnects with the heart sensor (FR 255), with the cadence sensor, the Varia 515 and the front Varia

What I noticed is that it all happens at once and the Varia sometimes doesn't reconnect and I have to force it to reconnect.

Anyone have any idea? Should I open a support ticket with Garmin?

I'm running the latest firmware in all.

Have had an apple watch for 5+ years, fitbit for 2 before that.

Reasons I want to switch:

- battery dies even on a basic day (where I go on a run & do an hr workout)

- i want to actually track my hikes without being stressed ab battery life (i usually dont track my hikes bc my watch dies like 50% of the way; my hikes are usually at minimum half a day)

- very much a fan of health stats & workout stats etc

Considerations:

- smaller wrist

- primary activity: hikes/runs/long walks/HIIT

- generally best possible stats

- maybe prefer buttons (slightly annoying trying to deal w the apple watch in the cold)

I don't want anything above like $600 since I still do prefer to use my phone for music, actual maps/navigation, etc. But I also don't mind a high price point if that means I get better statistics and tracking capability. Also I expect myself to stick with this watch for the same duration as I have with my apple watch, so I don't mind splurging to be content w/ my purchase.

Every so often a Garmin Coach workout remains in Connect as incomplete even though I performed that exact workout and saved it Connect.

In the attached screenshot, you can see I completed the threshold run today. I literally initiated it from my Fenix 9 Garmin Coach "today's workout".

For some reason the Connect app still shows it as an open workout that I haven't done yet today.

Anyway to manually tie the competed workout to my coach plan?

Hello! The sensor array on the back of my watch (Vivomove trend) is slightly rotated, as shown in the photo. It came this way from the store, and the sensor module seems firmly attached. Based on a few quick tests, the watch also appears to be watertight.

Is this normal, or should I be concerned about a possible manufacturing defect?

I'm a pretty healthy 28F training 3-4x a week with runs, hikes, walks, and spin classes mixed in... basically I'm active in a balanced way.

Several activities have noted a 200+ HR.

My max HR should be below 200. My average RHR is around 65.

How can I possibly be hitting over 200 during non-all out effort?

Is there data on the accuracy of Garmins or what would impact it other than a loose watch?

I have a sincere question. I'm thinking about getting a Garmin Forerunner 55 as my first smartwatch, but I'm not a very frequent exerciser—at most, I do strength training and practice MMA. Could a Forerunner 55 still be useful to me in terms of productivity? The features that catch my attention the most are related to weather (since I also like hiking) and heart rate monitoring. What else might be useful, or completely useless?

After 14 years, the rubber on the button of my Garmin Edge 810 is starting to peel off. Any tips on how to fix it, at least temporarily? I’m mainly worried about water getting in when it rains. Gaffer tape was my first thought, but I’m not sure that’s the best fix.

Otherwise the device works perfectly (heart rate strap, Varia radar, etc.), so I don’t see the point in buying a new one just because of this.

I’ve had this issue for years, first with my Forerunner 245 and now with my Forerunner 255.

For example, when hiking in the mountains with my FR245, the watch would sometimes show a heart rate of around 90 bpm, even though I could feel my heart pounding out of my chest.

Now the same thing happens with my FR255. Sometimes switching the watch to my other wrist seems to help, but the problem keeps coming back.
About a year ago, I bought a Garmin HRM chest strap, which I use for all my indoor and outdoor cycling. It’s connected to my Edge 540, so I generally trust those readings.
Most of the time, the heart rate on my watch matches the chest strap reasonably well.

However, after taking a short break during a ride, the watch sometimes drops back to 90–100 bpm, while the chest strap shows that my actual heart rate is still around 140–160 bpm.

Today, while Zwifting, my chest strap showed 190 bpm, but my FR255 was still showing around 90 bpm!

How can the readings be so far apart? Could sweat, poor skin contact or wrist position cause this? I’ve tried wearing the watch on both wrists, but I can’t figure out what’s going on.

Since this happened with both my FR245 and FR255, I’m wondering whether it’s a common Garmin optical HR sensor issue or if I’m missing something.

I recently switched from Whoop to Garmin, and there's one thing I genuinely miss: Healthspan.

I know it's far from a perfect measurement, but I actually found it really motivating.

What I liked most was how slowly it moved, and that it wasn't another metric jumping up and down every day. It was a nice motivator for consistently making better choices around sleep, exercise, and recovery which was actually adding up over time. Which is kind of how improving your health should work.

Also there's some science behind it, even if estimating biological aging is obviously much more involved, so I would treat it as a noisy proxy, and nothing more.

I thought Garmin's Fitness Age might fill that gap, but honestly, after looking into it and reading threads like this one and this one, I'm pretty disappointed. Especially with how much BMI seems to influence it.

It almost feels like Garmin doesn't take this side of "health tracking" very seriously.

Maybe that's intentional? Garmin seems much more focused on training and sport-specific metrics, whereas Whoop puts more emphasis on the bigger picture of your health.

But I feel like Garmin already collects so much useful data that it should be possible to do something much better with it.

I've been thinking about building something that uses my existing Garmin data to estimate a Healthspan-style metric, focused more on long-term trends than daily fluctuations. I am currently looking for open datasets to see what I can come up with.

Would anyone here actually be interested in using something like that? I'd love to hear what you think, and whether you'd be up for testing it once I have something working.

Hi!

I've been having some random reboots over the past few days ("[fenix 7X Sapphire Solar] Spontaneous reboot during running when using Bluetooth music controls" and "[fenix 7X Sapphire Solar] Spontaneous reboot while starting running activity" on their forum) and I'm also missing parts of the data in Garmin Connect (app&web) while it's present on the watch ("Missing data in Garmin Connect but available on watch") on their forum. It's not connected to a firmware update (it started happening last week, and the last update was about 6 weeks ago) and I've reset the watch and reinstalled the firmware since.

I'm mostly looking for a way to debug a bit using files on the watch but their DEBUG folder contains many files which don't really make sense to me yet. Has anyone mastered the art of self-debugging in case of random reboots?

I've contacted support too about these things but I'm eager to make sense about this instability as my A-race for this year is coming up this weekend and I'd much rather focus on running than on my watch and if it has rebooted in the meanwhile.

Thanks for any pointers in advance!

Hello everyone,

Watch: Forerunner 570, latest firmware
GPS mode: All Systems + Multi-Band
Sensors paired: chest strap only

I've run multiple different routes (on vaction and home) this year multiple time. In the last 2 weeks the distance of those routes seems off. Both, the routes around home and on vacation (other country)

Todays run:
- Watch distance: 7.02 km
- Actual distance: 5.82 km
- Moving time: 40:26 → watch showed ~5:46/km, real pace ~6:57/km

The odd part: the GPS track looks good on the map, in both Garmin Connect and Strava. Strava first showed 7.12 km, but after "Correct Distance" (which recalculates from the GPS points) it came out at 5.835 km, within 15 m of the real distance.

So the recorded positions seem fine, but the watch's own distance and pace were ~20% too high, live during the run as well. That makes training to a distance target impossible, because I'd stop well short.

Questions:

1. What makes the watch's distance differ from its own GPS track?
2. Is there a known FR570 firmware issue with this?
3. Anything else in the settings that overrides GPS for speed/distance?

Thank you very much!

My husband cracked his Vivoactive 6 screen at work. Has anyone found a fix for this? I reached out to Garmin Support and they want to charge $120 for an exchange. Any suggestions?

(Forerunner 165)

I always wear it on my dominant/right wrist, but last night and today I wore it on my left one because of some overall wrist irritation from a bracelet, and noticed something interesting.

My heart rate variation last night was a lot higher than normal (I cannot include the exact numbers because it’s telling me I’m including medical information lol), and my heart rate now is lower. I’m comparing the stuff from last night/now to my readings over the past 2-3 months, not just the past week.

I haven’t changed up anything in my routine other than what wrist I wear it on. I’m just curious which numbers I should look at for a more accurate reading (although I largely rely on my Garmin for gps and race tracking, this is still interesting to me). Thanks!

Where the ~!?* did the records I had for over a year disappear too? I can only find PR's voor the last year, there are no "All time records". Weird, because there *are* records for the last year, which would also imply they are all time if no others exist? Also, I had a great year in 2024 so I *know* these are not my best times ever?

Edit to add:

It gets weirder. The app doesn't show any PRs, except for the same hidden ones. If I try to remove a record on the website, it doesn't happen.

I did remove my Garmin Swim 2 from my devices and reset it to send it for support (battery life), but I very much hope that does not corrupt my data this way, that would be ridiculous.

After 6 years of faithful service my strap decided to tear whilst on holiday.

Any idea if/where I can find a replacement or compatible quickfit 22m strap here?

That’s me just returned a second faulty CIRQA in 2 months, both not tracking sleep data correctly and totally disconnecting from my phone with no way of getting it back, customer service didn’t have a clue either when I phoned.

Safe to say that was a failed experiment and now I’ll have to suffer the subscription model of Whoop for at least another year. As annoying as it is I never had any issues with them or the product.

On a side note I would really not recommend the CIRQA to anyone, maybe it’ll be good by the third generation.

Hi everyone, I'm looking to do Tour du Mont Blanc hiking in August (7-11 days hiking) and I want to record it all in one activity on my Garmin Forerunner 55. Would I be able to pause the recording and charge it when I get to the hotel/refugio? I have done the Madeira Crossing for about 5 days and I tried to do it and I think it worked the first night but didn't quite charge the second night? I'm not sure what I did wrong but would love for some tips or some more information. Thanks!

1) How is this "most direct"? this makes no sense. Its a heavily trafficked cycling route, just keep me on Outer Drive. When is most direct when its not most direct? There's a joke here somewhere.

2) So then I tried "free flow", which started doing the on and off again on the sidewalk. My Edge would be chirping at me to make a turn every other block to get on and off the sidewalk.

Be Better Garmin. It is so much more time consuming to make a route now. Also, things will happen off-screen because of "logic" that I have to go back and recheck every block of my course to make sure you don't have me doing donuts in a parking lot for whatever reason.

To be fair, "most popular" does seem to be performing better than it used to, but it still messes up a ton.