- A new leak has revealed an upcoming feature for Garmin watches
- Garmin Connect Rundown displays an annual summary of your fitness statistics
- It sheds light on your progress in a variety of sports and metrics
Annual recaps are all the rage these days—think Spotify Wrapped in the music world, for example—but Garmin users have been missing out on the fun. That situation may not last, as a new leak suggests the company is working on an annual summary of your fitness stats to help you better understand how you’ve fared over the past 12 months.
Dubbed Garmin Connect Rundown, the feature was first spotted by fitness website the5krunner. There, the business claims, Garmin’s feature will use a series of achievements and categories to quantify your year in fitness.
Despite sounding similar, this is not the same as the annual Garmin Connect data report. This is a public overview of data aggregated from all Garmin users, and it just averages what Garmin’s customers have been up to. The Garmin Connect Rundown, on the other hand, is a private analysis of your own data, meaning it’s much more personalized to your own efforts.
For example, the5krunner says Garmin Connect Rundown will measure your milestones in five sports categories: running, cycling, swimming, strength and para sports. Each has different achievements – for example, races include markers for your fastest 5K, 10K, half marathon, full marathon and your longest run. It should ensure that your progress is recognized in a variety of ways.
There are also more generic contextualizations of your effort, such as distance, elevation, calories burned, time, and steps. These are often measured in unusual or light-hearted ways, such as saying you burned the equivalent of “847 slices of chocolate cake” or traveled enough distance to cross the English Channel six times.
As for your favorite activity, this gets its own section, with the Garmin Connect Rundown going into more detail. The feature shows your peak activity, the total number of times you completed an activity of this type, your monthly counts and your maximum number of pushes in a day.
In addition to more vigorous activity, Garmin Connect Rundown also provides information about your recovery and well-being. This takes the form of the average duration and score of your night’s sleep plus your highest sleep score over the past year. In addition to that, your “body battery” stats are noted, such as the average daily charge, drain and high.
Garmin Connect Rundown will likely be available in the Garmin app at some point in the future, although there is no release date yet. It will display its statistics using a combination of graphics and text, while you will be able to share your numbers with friends or on social media.
The best Garmin watches already come with the ability to show you evening and morning reports summarizing your past day’s activities, so Garmin Connect Rundown seems like a natural extension of that idea. Being able to see your progress over the past year can help you better understand your current fitness levels and where they might be heading in the future.
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