- Garmin Connect Rundown is the wearable company’s own attempt at a Spotify Wrapped-style year-in-review
- It has all your health and fitness stats and trends for the year
- The Rundown is also behind a Connect+ paywall
This is the time of year when all the internet services drop summaries of your activities on the platform over the past year. The most famous of course is Spotify Wrapped, which we (at the time of writing) expect to drop very soon. You can check out our Spotify Wrapped live coverage of it all, but it’s not the only game in town.
Apple ditched its Apple Music Replay, Strava’s Year in Sport is set to arrive next week, and Garmin is the latest service to jump on the bandwagon — but there’s a catch.
Users of the best Garmin watches, whether you use a slim Garmin Vivoactive 6 or a monstrous 51mm Garmin Fenix 8, accumulate a huge amount of data about their sleep, recovery and exercise habits, from heart rate to their fitness age (the age Garmin thinks your cardiovascular system is functioning at, compared to your actual biological age).
It knows the routes you’ve traveled, the total distance you’ve run, swum or cycled, the number of waves you’ve surfed and how much weight you’ve lifted. All that is prime fodder for a wrapped feature.
Unfortunately, Garmin Connect Rundown, a “personal annual report includes health, performance and activity stats, including total steps, average sleep score, totals for each activity type and more,” is only available to Garmin users who have signed up for Garmin’s premium Connect+ subscription service — though other services like Strava and Spotify also make theirs available to free-tier users.
Connect+’s disastrous first year
Regular readers and Garmin users may remember Connect+ and its disastrous launch back in March, when Garmin users threw up their hands and complained on Reddit, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), and in our email inbox, worried that new features added to their expensive watches would be locked behind another arbitrary paywall.
While a year in review wrapped style is hardly an essential feature, but more of a nice-to-have, it’s an example of this gradual shift happening and Garmin trying to drive existing users to Connect+.
(If you’re signed up for Connect+ and you get your Garmin Connect Rundown info, let me know in the comments below and let us know how you did!)
Garmin has also provided us with some general statistics about its 2025 user base, which are quite interesting though. I’ve shared some of the highlights below:
- Garmin saw a 29% increase in strength training, a 45% increase in HIIT, and a 67% increase in racquet sports (I reckon that’s the spike in pickleball and padel)
- Women recorded lower average stress scores than men
- Garmin users slept an average of 1% better this year
- Garmin users in Hong Kong took the most average steps per day with more than 10,000
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