Hey all- I got my new Garmin instinct a few days ago. since it’s winter, I do a lot of indoor rides with my smart trainer using Trainer Road. I use a polar chest strap for HR readings on Trainer Road (as far as I can tell, I can’t use Garmin as a HR monitor on trainer road, which is also annoying), so I took off my Garmin to avoid double-documenting the workout. While I did figure out how to sync my roads from Trainer Road to Garmin Connect, the rides don’t seem to have any effect on any metrics. I can see my heart rate and other stats within the activity in Connect, but it doesn’t count towards my heart rate for the day, the body battery measurement, my intensity minutes, or stress. So, it really doesn’t count for anything as far as Garmin is concerned.
Has anyone figured out a good way to sync Trainer Road and Garmin Connect? Do I need to just wear both my Garmin and my Polar strap for indoor rides to fix this? That will double document in both Garmin and Strava (since I sync Trainer Road and Garmin there). it’s annoying that this takes so much work!
