Published Calendar Doesn't Update in Google Calendar

I don't think the training calendar in Garmin Connect was ever ‘meant’ or designed to sync with a third-party calendar service or app, although you can manually ‘publish’ and push static snapshots of individual events across.

Hi, thanks for the response :) That's not how published .ical calendars work though. The idea is that the service that you then read the published calendar from should be able to retrieve the latest version of the calendar 'at will', thereby getting any new updates that have occurred. That certainly does seem to be the way that the Garmin published calendar is configured, and some more digging shows that this is most likely to be a Google issue (more on this below). The use of the word 'sync' here was an error on my part, as it implies some sort of two-way capability which isn't what I need.

The Garmin ecosystem (including the cloud-based Garmin Connect service, and the Garmin Express application on your computer and/or the Garmin Connect Mobile apps on your mobile devices) and wearable devices are intended to be self-sufficient as training aids – without undue regard for your preferences (for using other calendar services and apps that also hold information about other non-sport events, for example).

Yep, understood - but, as you appreciate, we all have other 'life' things outside of Garmin that also have to be scheduled. I don't want to have to look at the Garmin Connect app each time I have to make a decision on the timing / scheduling of other events. And because that app doesn't contain everything that's going on in my life it's also no good to me when I'm trying to get an overview of how my week is looking. Hence why it's useful to have all that information make its way into some other calendar (be that some other training platform that has more of my data in than Garmin, or my Google calendar which has more of my general life information in it).

The problem here actually turns out not to be the way that the Connect calendar is published, but the fact that Google aren't in a hurry to support refreshing of .ical published calendars. They seem to refresh their contents somewhere between every 24 hours and, well, weeks in some instances.

So, although the issue turns out to (most likely) not be a Garmin one, it does leave me with an issue that I need to find a way to solve somehow.