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Make Up Your Mind Badge

Minmac29
over 4 years ago

I am having trouble earning the Make Up Your Mind badge. I recently logged a swim activity in yards, then logged a second activity in meters, but the badge was not awarded. I successfully earned the June Swim Week badge with this second activity but the other badge did not register.

For reference, I have a Forerunner 235. Maybe it requires a different watch?

TIA for your help!

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I think you just have to change the unit in Garmin Connect so you have one of each. You also need to change the pool size so that the distance is correct. Just changing the unit will make the distance incorrect.

  • 0 over 4 years ago
    Minmac29 said:

    For reference, I have a Forerunner 235. Maybe it requires a different watch?

    Does the 235 even have a pool swimming mode? If not, then indeed, another watch might be required. The normal way of getting the "Make Up Your Mind" badge is to select the pool swim profile, then set the pool size to something in meters. And then do another activity with a pool size set to something in yards.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to tmk2

    Thanks for this feedback. My watch itself does not have a swim option but for all activities that aren't on my watch, I start my watch in "other" or "run" mode then edit the activity on the website when I'm finished. This worked for the June swim week badge but it's possible for the Make Up Your Mind badge, the setup is different.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to e7andy

    Thank you for your response. I did do this for both swim activities but still no badge. It may have to be my unicorn!

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Minmac29

    I did some tests with my test account.

    First I made sure I didn't have the badge. I also checked how many swim activities I had logged. There is just one open water swimming logged and it is in meters.
    Then I exported a swim activity from my personal account and imported it into the test account. That swim is also in meters.
    I then changed to yards for one of them.
    No badge awarded.

    When I checked the activity that should be in yards I see that it is showing meters. I did another edit and changed to yards, but it is still showing meters.

    I then changed the measurement units to Statute in the settings: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/settings

    I then did some edits to the swim activity again. Changed to meters, changed to yards, imported it again. Nothing gave me the badge. It always shows yards now.

    My conclusion is that the correct unit must be in the FIT file. You can't change it afterwards in Garmin Connect.

    What you can do is to export the FIT file, edit it so it says yards and then import it again. Note that you must delete the original activity to be able to import it again unless you change the id in the file first. I have no idea if that works, but that is what I would test. You probably need to have Fit File Repair Tool to fix that or maybe Golden Cheetah can do it.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Minmac29

    Maybe you can just change the measurement units on the device and log another swim. Then it should use that unit in the FIT file.

    Maybe you already tried that...

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    SOLVED. I struggled getting this but FINALLY figured it out. So you probably have a LOT of swims recorded and sync'd with garmin.connect.  I have the FR735XT but I think any Garmin swimming compatible device will work. Go to Garmin.connect and then click on Activities, then All Activities. Click on one of your recent swimming activities. A bunch of data charts will pull up showing pace, etc.,,, Now click on the Edit icon on the top right of the screen (looks like a pencil). Change the pool size here to the opposite unit. I normally swim a 25 meter pool so I changed the pool size to 27.3 and clicked the dropdown for yards. Note: 27.3 yards = 25 meters. Click Save in the upper right of the screen. You should now have your badge. I did this today, 11Feb22.  It updated immediately and awarded me the badge then I chose to go back and change the data back to meters but this isn't necessary.