April Intense Cardio badge

4329278 1 month ago

I'm not making any progress towards the April Intense Cardio challenge, which requires you to record 3 hours of cardio in zone 3. I've recorded two runs, one of which was almost entirely in zone 3, but the status bar is still showing 0 minutes completed. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here?

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e7andy 1 month ago +3

You must log it with the Cardio profile. Running or any other activity type will not work. You can change the type of the run to cardio, but then the run will not count for running challenges.
e7andy 1 month ago in reply to 8181148 +3

It isn't a bug or error. Just log it as Cardio. Garmin will not change it.
8181148 1 month ago in reply to Wilk5280 +2

My point exactly. If I'm paying for Garmin+, I expect common sense definitions to apply. Trial may just be a trial. I too track yearly running stats and don't want to switch between several profiles. I…

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0 e7andy 19 days ago in reply to Mike

Why not just log it as the correct type from the start?

0 Mike 19 days ago in reply to e7andy

I don't really want to get in a debate about this (I'm regretting having posted my thoughts now) but the UX of a breathwork activity is completely different from the UX of a meditation activity.

0 e7andy 19 days ago in reply to Mike

Yes? That is the point of the different activity types. Breathwork is breathwork and meditation is meditation. They are not the same activities.

I understand now that you count your breathwork as meditation. Why not do breathwork AND meditation? Two activities.

0 CarlCLW 19 days ago in reply to 4762143

Since the badge is called INTENSE Cardio, the word Intense to me does imply that Zone 4+ should also be counted.

Putting that aside, I think the goal of the badge to stay in Zone 3 does make sense. You build your Aerobic Base by doing long workouts in Zone 3.

I just finished the bike challenge of 4 hours in Power Zone 3 and that resulted in 3.5 hours in Heart Rate Zone 3. Afterwards I felt fabulous. My Run a day later was so easy. I plan on doing the 40K rides in Zone 3.

I'm doing this badge as Peloton Power Zone Endurance rides that are in Power 2-3 which gets me to HR Z3. Since Peloton refuses to broadcast power, or other data, to Garmin what my watch records is not much, so I have no problem with it as type cardio.

0 Mike 19 days ago in reply to e7andy

Hi e7andy. I really don't want to get into a debate why I prefer to do what I do. Like I said I'm regretting posting my thoughts now because I'm being told I'm wrong.

0 FaithJoyRuns 5 days ago

I did 55 minutes of intense cardio and earned 7 minutes toward the badge?!?! I think the issue is that this badge should be zone 3 and above instead of making us keep it at zone 3 because there's no way to monitor that very well as we are doing the cardio workout.