Uploading a Missed Garmin Workout

Hi,

I have a Forerunner 965 and it's shiite for strength training as it misreads the heart sensor 100% of the time for me (I have zero fat on my wrist so suspect this is a problem for the sensor). For this reason I use a Polar chest strap and then simultaneously run the Polar Beat app ...

Weeellll, for the 1st time I forgot to turn on my Garmin workout so I only have the Polar copy of it. No problem! I'll just upload the data.

BZZT. Garmin won't accept the data: "an error occurred with your upload"

After much analysis, I believe the reason is "in the event there is wellness data on the same day, Garmin data will take precedence over Fitbit data."

That is, I believe Garmin won't accept the workout because the Polar heart rate data (which is correct) would overwrite Garmin's bad data ... which seems really dumb, because the whole point I'm uploading a workout is because I missed it on Garmin!

Further, this doesn't seem to be a problem when Concept2 uploads rowing workouts which overwrite Garmin's heart rate data for the same time ...

Anybody know how I can upload this workout so the day & data & time heart rate data overwrite Garmin's and it tracks my workout correctly???

THANKS!!

0 e7andy 5 months ago

Why not connect the Polar chest strap with the Forerunner 965 and skip the Polar Beat app?

Which heart rate data do you want to overwrite in Garmin Connect? The HR on the daily timeline? That can't be overwritten. The HR there is the HR logged by your activity tracker which is a Garmin watch. It will not change if you upload activities with HR.

What type of file do you have from Polar? Have you tried importing it into Strava or any other service to make sure it works?

0 GrussGott 5 months ago in reply to e7andy

Normally I start both the polar app and the workout on my FR 965 watch which also takes the polar chest strap feed (I like the polar app for reasons), it's just that this time I forgot to start the workout on the FR965, so now I'm missing that workout and the HR data is wrong in Garmin, like by a LOT.

This isn't a problem with, say, Concept 2 which uses the API: I simply connect the polar HR strap to the concept 2, do my workout, and then it uploads the data to garmin and overwrites whatever garbage Garmin collected during my rowing workout.

As for files, I tried both TCX and CSV, including checking all the fields in the CSV.

I've not tried any other service because I don't use any other service, only Garmin and Polar (and Concept 2)