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Does Virtual cycling count towards challenges

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Using ROUVY and Zwift. They sync to my Garmin connect but do not appear in the count for the challenges. 

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    6021351 said:
    no way im getting out in the cold and dark ( & sometimes Snow & Ice)

    Going out is not necessary at all. You just have to record the cycling with your device (or with the Tacx app)…

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    Virtual Rides count, but they must come frrom a Garmin device and IMO I doubt if Garmin will ever accept Zwift rides.

    Look at Garmin's rules for badges and challenges for more indepth info.

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    They will count providing the ride is at least 20 minutes long if I’m not mistaken

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    As 4411990 wrote - the activity must come from a Garmin device, or be recorded by the Tacx Training app (also Garmin). Generally, activities imported from 3rd parties never count towards badges and chalenges.

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    Thanks for the help - there goes my December Cycling badges - no way im getting out in the cold and dark ( & sometimes Snow & Ice)

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    6021351 said:
    no way im getting out in the cold and dark ( & sometimes Snow & Ice)

    Going out is not necessary at all. You just have to record the cycling with your device (or with the Tacx app), and that can be done indoors too. 

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    If you actually have a Garmin device, you can export the activity as a tcx file in Garmin, edit it and add the “creator” section at the end (before the </activity> tag). Simply copy this from another activity that was recorded with the Garmin device. Then GC sees that it was a Garmin device and recognizes time/km/... also for challenges. Just tested with an activity from ROUVY. Tedious, but it works. Of course, you then delete the original unit. You may have to adjust the date/time if you rode in a different time zone in ROUVY. This seems to be falsified by export/import.

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