Motivational Awards/Achievements

I started running and training last summer and got a Garmin forerunner 10 for Christmas. I transferred all my record that I noted in an agenda to the Garmin Connect. I discovered that I was close to 200km running total.

Being a gamer, I was almost hoping for an "achievement" to be unlocked. Unfortunately, nothing happened when I got to 200km. But I think, the idea is worth being explained and seriously proposed.

So, for any non-gamer, an achievement is like a Scout's merit badge. If you do something particular, you earn the badge. If you perform certain tasks, you get a different badge. I started thinking about what could be some examples and maybe I got a little carried away but I was able to list quite a few. I live in Canada so I got mainly ideas about north american landmarks but more international could be added.

Here is a list of what I had in mind :

1 run or 1 swim or 1 cycle --> Got off the couch.
first run --> Got shoes
first cycle --> Got wheels
first swim --> Got wet

5k run in -10C(or below) --> Iceman
5k cycle in -10C(or below) --> Yeti

Cycle 2 days in a row -->
Cycle 5 days in a row --> Big Wheel

1 run, 1 swim and 1 cycle in a week --> (Three items of the triathlon)
1 run, 1 swim and 1 cycle in a day -->

total swim, total cycle and total run of a week = (ironman distances) --> IronWeek

3 run in a week --> Sandals
3 cycle in a week --> Training wheel
3 swim in a week --> Speedo
4 run in a week --> Running shoes
4 cycle in a week --> Geared wheel
4 swim in a week --> Sharkskin suit
5 run in a week --> Silver shoes
5 cycle in a week --> Silver wheel
5 swim in a week --> Silver suit
6 run in a week --> Golden shoes
6 cycle in a week --> Golden wheel
6 swim in a week --> Golden suit
7 run in a week --> Diamond shoes
7 cycle in a week --> Diamond wheel
7 swim in a week --> Diamond suit

20k run in a week --> Shopper
30k run in a week --> Traveler
40k run in a week -->
50k run in a week -->
75k run in a week -->
100k run in a week --> Mailman

20k cycle in a week --> Pizza Deliverer
50k cycle in a week --> Milk man
100k cycle in a week --> RVer
200k cycle in a week --> Freight Truck
500k cycle in a week --> Locomotive

5k swim in a week --> Raft
10k swim in a week --> Pirogi
25k swim in a week --> Boat
35k swim in a week --> Cruise ship
50k swim in a week --> Frigate

all swim = Bering strait --> Bering strait
all swim = NYC to France --> Trans-Atlantic
all cycle + all run = Los Angeles to NYC --> Across the USA
all cycle + all run = Florida's east coast -->
all run = Boston to NYC --> (two cities with major marathon races)
all swim = lake Michigan length -->
all swim = Havana (Cuba) to Key west --> (too political?)

1 run over 5k with pace < 6m/km --> Squirrel
1 run over 5k with pace < 5m/km --> Rabbit
1 run over 5k with pace < 4m/km --> Antelope
1 run over 5k with pace < 3m/km --> Cheetah

1 cycle over 10k with pace < 4m/km --> Scooter
1 cycle over 10k with pace < 3m/km --> Chopper
1 cycle over 10k with pace < 2m/km --> Sport bike
1 cycle over 10k with pace < 1m/km --> Superbike

1 swim over 1k with pace < 12m/km --> Goldfish
1 swim over 1k with pace < 10m/km --> Dolphin
1 swim over 1k with pace < 8m/km --> Tigershark
1 swim over 1k with pace < 6m/km --> Sailfish

Those are just what came to me after a few minutes, I didn't consider elevation or finding a name for all the badges yet. I might also have irrelevant ideas about swimming being a bad swimmer. but it's more to give an idea of what it could look like.

I believe that such badges would add some sort of "next objective" for some of the user. It adds a notion of goal and tends to encourage to push yourself to the next level and get that badge to show off to your contacts/friends.

Could this be implemented ? Pretty pretty please ?

Anoher awsome thing would be to display official race medals.

This is just a copy of my e-mail to Developers

Dear developers,

Please can u make under "Active Goals" in Garmin Connect something like Nike+ have.... please check they site http://www.garcard.com/nikeplus.php

It will be really nice to have all ready proposed ideas like ( Run on New Years Day or Run on Halloween day, Run on Valentine's Day......etc...
with banners or icons that can be posted on Facebook once completed thru Garmin Connect).

Running for this kind of achievements will make some more fun and most of runners I asked really liked that idea!

Please let me know,

I have full list of ideas for this kind of achievements that could be made for Garmin Connect section Active Goals.

Just let me know and I will send them to u.

Thanks for your time reading this!

P.S. <3 Garmin Forerunner 620