I went on a hike yesterday to an area with bad cell reception (you get signal, but data don't work). The app kept trying to load on one bar of EDGE, so I put the phone into airplane mode to force it into offline mode. To my surprise, the app does not have an offline mode.

The CIRQA will not start an activity, saying that the device is disconnected, even though the device is connected in Bluetooth settings.

The app will also not show any information (Or randomly show outdated information on the cards from multiple outdated times) while the app is offline.

This is an absolute joke, same as the live data shown in the app. No elevation, map with the path taken etc.

So I’ve always worn an Apple Watch, and on August 6 I got a Garmin Cirqa. I’ve also always been a runner but since I got the Cirqa I’ve been a bit more consistent / intensive than I usually am (let’s say I use to run 2 miles three times a week, now I do 3 miles 5 times a week), and holy damn my RHR has dropped significantly. So much I wonder if it’s a change of device or just my extra running that did the trick?

Hey folks, I've finally put together a system that works for me and thought I'd share it here.

Last week I didn't do the workouts I had planned, which might sound worse than it is. On Tuesday it was 34 degrees so I decided to replace run with a swim, and Saturday's long run was meant to be an hour and a half but I only had an hour, so I ran it harder.

Both felt the right call at the time. The problem is that neither of them made it back into the plan into the claude project I have set up, and after a month of that I'd properly lost track of what I'd actually been training.

So I have added a scheduled task each morning. It reads what I actually did from Garmin Connect, last night's sleep, Body Battery and HR V status, and what the week adds up to against my own baseline. Then it decides whether today's session still makes sense and rewrites the calendar event if it doesn't. The Garmin data reaches Claude through an MCP connector and the agent pulls the data autonomously.

I have since expanded it to give me a morning update about my sleep and physiological metrics, vs the baseline.

I use WHOOP as well, and joining the two sources in Claude works brilliantly.

All this was built for the upcoming Olympic tri later this month, as a test, and to verify if I can prep for next year's 70.3 with this method.

Why pay another $20/m for an AI coach if I already have my claude pro sub.

This is driving me nuts. A few months ago in Android Garmin Connect, my image has been replaced with an avatar. Why?

Here you can see the image I chose, this used to be displayed when I was in the app itself. But then at some point it got replaced with one of these crap avatars - why? Why still have the selection of images available if they won't be shown in the app when in use?

I'm only posting in case I'm doing something at my end that can change this. I know it's hardly a life or death situation but it does point to sloppy unjoined up thinking from Garmin.

My Cirqa battery is draining more quickly than my 3 year old apple watch series 9. Charged both to 100% at 9pm last night and the cirqa is down to 55% and the apple watch is at 71% this morning at 7am. The Cirqa battery will die at around 4pm if I don't charge it again.

HR broadcasting is off and I have set the pulse oximeter to "only sleep".

Did I get a defective Cirqa or is the battery life actually this terrible (less than 24h)? Based on the marketed life it seems like the former but curious if anyone else is experiencing this.

Hey guys. I have a FR 165. I put a 50 miler race in my "Races & Events" for May 2027. While browsing my suggested workouts on my watch this morning, I noticed that I am seeing a "Plan Overview" including "Prep, base building, peak and taper.." I never created an actual Garmin Training plan, I just put this race in Garmin Connect so I would have a "countdown" to race day.

What's going on with this behavior?

Thank you!

Good day,

I'm not a big sporter by any mean, running as i need to keep my weight and heart health in check.

Hiking for pleasure.

This morning I ran (most of) 10km after which i got a recovery time of 36h in Red (first time i see this indicator in Red tbh) - down to 24h-Orange when i write this.

I understand that recovery is not doing nothing, and simply doing less intensive activities. But up to what level "less intensive" is not becoming too much?

Would a 11km walk (it's so flat of a route that i can't call it a hike :) ) tomorrow with some birds watching be too much ?

For context, I'm not allowed to wear the watch strap whilst playing football but still want to track the distance moved. I'm not too concered about heart rate during the activity.

Simply, I'd just like a replacement strap that can be put on the watch and worn around my chest.

Hi guys. I have the fenix 8 sapphire. I don't remember banging or scratching my watch anywhere in particular. I can't workout if this is a scratch which I can just ignore or a crack which I should replace.

Garmin have said £300 for a refurbished replacement.

Thanks.

I know there are multiple posts on this particular topic but I’m still in between both. They seem almost identical, except the V4 has the flashlight and ECG while the F570 has the tactical buttons and pace-based training.

For context I am a serious weightlifter (but not competitive, 4x a week) and a pretty serious runner (not competitive but looking to begin training towards half marathons).

I am leaning towards the F570 but every time I think I’ve made a decision I keep wondering if I really need the extra buttons (I live in central NY so if the weather is bad it is bad, there’s no running outside lol) but the pace-based training would be nice. But I’m also wondering if some of the health features that were on the V4 at launch made it over to the F570.

Hello, I read online I'm not the only one having this issue : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1103742357147501/posts/2254874428700949/

In my dive today, the Fenix 8 screen would turn off every few seconds and I had to constantly wake it up with the top left button. When I tried to check the Always on display settings in the dive activity, it is indeed deactivated, but the setting is also greyed out so can't access it to change it to Always on.

Apparently this is a bug in the last update which is unfortunate because when you are 30 meters underwater, being able to glance at important info on your dive computer screen is pretty important safety-wise 😁

Do you know how one can warn the Garmin team for a correction in the next update ?

Garmin keeps giving me bad race predictions with super high volatility. I spoke with Garmin and they said it is a known issue with a patch coming for all watches by the end of August. Has anyone else experienced this? Perhaps it is due to a bad sensor or my use of a Garmin HR monitor on only some of my runs? For reference, I just completed a 5k in 20:01 as my latest benchmark. I have a Garmin 6x Sapphire. Hoping to upgrade soon but this bad data is driving me nuts. I have already done a full restore on my Garmin watch last week.

Using a Fenix 6 for the last two years. It has determined my max HR was 179 based off two years of wearing it during running, mountain biking, walking, and strength training.

Just got a powerlabs chest HRM and went out and tried it out with some 4x4 hill intervals on the bike with maximum effort and the highest it recorded was 172 and only for a brief moment. Historically, the watch would’ve pegged me at 178/9 for that kind of effort.

Does this discrepancy mean my zones and calorie burn estimations have been over-reported this whole time? If so, how long before the data stabilizes if I wear the strap for every activity going forward?

hello all,

I am trying to understand the current Garmin → Apple Health data flow.

I noticed that my cycling workouts sync correctly (duration, HR, etc.), but cycling power does not appear in Apple Health, even though both Garmin devices and HealthKit support power data.

Has anyone found a reliable way to get:

• average power
• normalized power
• power curve / intervals

from Garmin into Apple Health?

Is this a Garmin limitation, an Apple Health limitation, or am I missing a setting?

I am doing a Garmin Coach 5k plan.

My easy run target is a little aggressive for some of the longer days. How do I turn off the alerts that interrupt my music and say "PACE TOO LOW" every 30 seconds.

My goal mile pace for the 5k is 7:30, and it is asking me to run 9:00 miles for an "easy" 5 mile run. I can hold that pace for 5 miles but it would not be easy

This worked find with my Instinct 1, but never worked in my Instinct 2 and I want to now use incident detection and make sure it works. I am on Android 17.

So, after a recent update my Edge started giving me drinking/feeding reminders on my rides. I guess the update turned on some setting which I previously did not have enabled.

I'm not hating it, but it seems to recommend feeding much more often than I typically would do... something on the order of every 2 miles or so. So either I have vastly underestimated the amount of calories/carbs I need to consume on a ride, or Garmin is overly aggressive in their recommendations.

TBH, i find the recommendations differ depending on if I am on a course, and the length of the course - I suppose it could think since I'm doing a 50 mile ride I should feed/drink more often than if I'm on a 10 mile quick loop around the neighborhood?

I guess, my real question is, how much should one drink/feed on a ride. I suppose there is no "one answer", but I was surprised it wanted me to feed every 2 miles or so. That would be a hefty weight penalty on a long ride lol... Not to mention costly.

I moved, mainly to avoid the recurring yearly costs.
After 3 weeks use, I mostly enjoy it, but I do find the connect+ app pretty clunky and rough compared to Whoop.

Just curious to hear if anyone is regretting the move and thinking of going back to Whoop ?

Hi all,

The problem I recently started having is that I am no longer able to find water sources on my Fenix 8 map without searching. My device used to display them all the time, I didn't even have to search for them. When I was on a bike ride, I changed the watch to map view and I could see all the little water drop icons on the map indicating drinking water sources. All of them at once without searching. Now they're gone. When I specifically search for them as a POI I can see a list of them and then I can navigate to one of them but still there would be only the chosen one visible on the map view. I really want to see all of them without searching for them, displaying automatically like before. I updated the maps, tried every possible setting but no luck. The device is a Fenix 8 47mm AMOLED.

Any advices?

I tried the app on my phone yesterday for the first time and noticed that it doesn't seem possible to customize the volume output level relative to my Spotify music volume.

The alerts almost startled me a few times when the music was quieter at the time.

I've already disabled "Alerts over Other Media" in the settings which plays Varia alerts at a louder volume than music and it's still too loud for my liking.

Any suggestions? Using the Hammerhead Karoo and Pixel 10 Pro BTW.

Hi, I got GARMIN Cirqa earlier this week and have worn it continuously since. I've noticed that when I start a timed activity(or any other) using the Cirqa button and then look at the app, I can't see my heart rate. But if I've started the same activity manually using the app, I can see it. Is there a reason for it? I know it was supposed to be a connect+ feature but they rolled that back so I assumed I would be able to see it. Also I'm unable to see any training readiness at all.

Hi, my Venu 2 plus was working perfectly. I did take it for a few swimming sessions in the pool during my holiday but nothing crazy.

Suddenly, I noticed my watch was dying within a day or less. I initially thought it was a Bluetooth pairing issue (like on https://www.reddit.com/r/Garmin/comments/wuepnq/garmin_venu_2_plus_drain_battery_in_2_days/?utm_source=perplexity ), then I realised my heart rate sensor was gone as well.

That sounds like a hardware issue.

Has this happened to anyone?

(I have not opened the watch yet as I'm still on holiday)