Repeatable badges

ASmugDill 

Sorry this is a very late reply. But how will you earn point in your opinion? I started using Garmin Connect as a backup to Sporttracks3 (still unbeatable gear handling). But i got an eye on the challenges etc. And without enough repeatable badges no one will get to level 10. An example. 100 mile bike and Marathon are 8 point repeatable that gives you 250*16 points=4 000 points. And if you do both every week 250 weeks are ~5 years. But: Where go you get the additional 6 000 points? Even if you are top class, if there aren't any badges to get it will not matter. You will be stranded at 8 level-9.

e7andy said:

I did a calculation in another thread that it will take about 41 years to reach level 10

Only if you are really lazy  To get the first 1000 points is easy, because there are plenty of badges waiting for newbies, and can be accessed without any big effort. And then, when you do all the monthly challenge badges (~250 pts/year), do 10k steps daily (almost another 100 pts/year), add some yearly repeatable and other occasional badges (~50 pts/year), you are at some 400 pts/year. Add a few marathons or 100 miles rides per year, and you are at 500 pts/year. Connection challenges can bring you another 500 pts till you reach the limit of 250 repeats.

So if you start at 20, when you are 40, you are level 10, and start to complain here on the forum that level 10 is too low, and that you lost motivation for the rest of your life, and that the levels should be much higher 

And that's without doing any weekly marathons. Should you do that, and add an occasional 100 miles ride, you can do 1000 points per year, and be at level 10 in ten years.