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ZWIFT Rides No Longer Count Towards Challenges?

I was half way to completing the 2021 "January Ride to 200" challenge with ZWIFT rides and now my progress says zero.
My ZWIFT rides have always counted in the past challenges... is this something new??

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DallasCajun over 3 years ago in reply to buckindb +19

Well, the thing about that position from Garmin of using Garmin devices for Badges/Challenges is that I'm using a freaking TACX Neo 2T, albeit through Zwift. I just don't understand the logic that…
buckindb over 3 years ago in reply to trux +17 verified

I was just chatting with Garmin Support, and yes they recently made an update which blocks 3rd party services from challenges. Yes, their challenge guidance states Garmin device activities are required…
PeterFerngren over 3 years ago +17 suggested

The badges are just for motivation, right?

Why does not Garmin want their users to be motivated? Who really cares how the training has been recorded?

I think this is just a way of Garmin to push their…

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0 7020080 over 3 years ago in reply to MJWills

How? I have tried adding manual activities with the same mileage with no luck.

0 trux over 3 years ago in reply to 7020080

7020080 said:
I have tried adding manual activities with the same mileage with no luck.

As written countless times in this thread, you have to record the activity with a Garmin device. Manual and imported Activities do not count towards badges (and towards badge challenges). It means, just record a dummy Indoors Cycling Activity (or the standard one) with your Garmin device, save it, and edit the distance in Garmin Connect.

0 MJWills over 3 years ago in reply to 7020080

On your watch for example, start and finish an indoor cycle, can be for 10secs. Upload it to Garmin Connect then manually change the date, duration and mileage to the same as the Zwift ride. Then it will count.

0 Whatnextjanet over 3 years ago

My January Ride to 200 challenge and 2021 Cycling Challenge stage 1 have both reverted back to 0 progress even though they used to show my progress. The other challenges all appear to still be working correctly. I tried leaving the challenge and then rejoining but that didn’t work. Any suggestions?

+1 seilogramp over 3 years ago

Were these with zwift? ZWIFT Rides No Longer Count Towards Challenges?

0 Whatnextjanet over 3 years ago in reply to seilogramp

Yes they were. Thanks for the redirect info. I’ll have to record using a Garmin device going forward. Guess I’m not going to make up those rides.

0 Former Member over 3 years ago

Would love an official answer from garmin .

0 Mrozer over 3 years ago in reply to Dayve

Exact + you are still able to cheat by simply changing the distance manually in Connect App.

0 Mrozer over 3 years ago in reply to JKABLER

Thank you for this comment. With fitfiletools.com you can change the FIT file as you please. Probably instead of simply allowing ZWIFT data to count their engineers are now working on how to prevent FIT files from being that easily edited and counted for the challanges...

0 1x2lupus over 3 years ago in reply to Mrozer

ok thx. BTW now i Have my monthy distance doubled ;) Zwift + indor.