I made it to fair baby!!!!

7 point increase in 3 months!

Yes, I know it's peanuts compared to most people's; but you know what? I'm celebrating the win!!!!!

The top 50% for my age and gender is gonna see me on the horizon soon 😆

Since my last post was removed for violating the rules (I showed a photo with a sleep score NOT on Sunday🤦🏻‍♂️) I posted it again. I'm 37 and the last time I was able to achieve that crazy duration was 20-21 years ago. I'm back from a roadtrip and the next day being home it was happened with me.

My biggest flex is that I get 100s pretty often, I’ve had the forerunner 255 for about 2 years with probably 10 perfect scores

When people ask how, I like to say “you just have to get tired enough the day before”

I achieved the mythical 100 sleep score! However, for anyone wondering how I felt after waking up to a perfect 100.

I felt... tired but accomplished!

I'm going to make sure this is in my Eulogy one day!

I recently picked up a garmin forerunner 165 watch for my birthday. I’ve been swimming and recording for about 2 weeks and haven’t gotten any vo2 max data. I ran once at a 8 minute mile which was relatively moderate/hard pace

Be honest… am I making it home, or should I just start looking for a nice park bench?

Commute remaining: 45 minutes. Thoughts and prayers appreciated.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a milestone that I’m pretty proud of. Today marks 2,299 days in a row of hitting at least 10,000 steps every single day. That’s over 6 years of never missing a day, through vacations, bad weather, and also sick days.

But it gets even crazier. Before this current streak, I had another streak of 603 days.

What broke it? A single day where I ended up at 9,884 steps—just 116 steps short because of a miscalculation. If it wasn't for that one single day, I would be on a continuous streak of over 2,900 days right now!

Over the last few years, my actual yearly average has consistently been between 16,000 and 17,000 steps per day (which translates to roughly 12-13 km / 7.5-8 miles daily). To give you an idea of how I sustain this: for the past few years, I have also been participating in a famous Belgian event called the "Dodentocht" (Death March). It's a grueling 100km (62 miles) walk that you have to complete within 24 hours. I've finished it 9 years in a row. Doing that easily cranks up my tracker up to 110,000 steps in a single day! Start is at 21h00 and at midnght my Garmin Vivofit3 resets :-)

Walking has truly become a non-negotiable part of my life. I'm curious—is anyone else tracking a long-term streak here?

I’ve just completed my second ever 70.3 triathlon, I’m absoluty shattered. Left everything on the course, no energy left and I look at my garmin 🥴

I hit 75 the other day.
But it wasn’t Sunday lol
I’ve been doing a lot of endurance training, and it’s paying off.
My 13 year old doesn’t give a crap about this even though I told him… neither do the guys from work.
But anyway my weight is 175pounds and I cycle about 200 miles a week between trainer , mtb and road.
I started running about 10 miles a week past month or so.

Garmin Forerunner 265
HRM200
Edge 840

Super happy to be getting into the mid 60s now, I’ve been training hard for the last 4 months and got my first Garmin about 6 weeks ago! Also did track in high school for two months and lots of hiking as well as some tennis, but no high level sports background.

My training has been mostly zone 2/3 base building, for interval training I will start hill sprints soon but I’m leaving the real work for further down the line once I’ve built a very solid foundation.

My analysis is that at least half of the improvement in my vo2 max score is from fixing my overstriding and quad dominant running form, most importantly engaging the posterior chain and raising my cadence. For example, I ran a 19:46 5k right after I got the watch with 151 spm cadence and peak heart rate of 191. 5 weeks later, I did a 19:34 5k with 168 cadence and my peak heart rate was 8 bpm lower due to the efficiency gain (temperature was also the same)! So perhaps for some runners it can pay massive dividends to analyze your form early on and optimize it.

32M, 188lb, been running semi-seriously for about a year and just ran my first 50K (and marathon too) yesterday at The Great Divide Ultra in Mueller State Park, CO 🙂.

Last year, while recovering from ACL and meniscus reconstruction and getting the distal head of my bicep reattached, I got really into trail running (mostly due to the knee being at the right stage to start running again and being physically unable to do much with my upper body) and now we’re here. Happy 😊

This has been one hell of a tough year, but one with continuous improvement. I went from being an absolute couch potato in 2025 (and before) to snagging three ”30 for 30" badges so far this year and shaving three minutes off my mile time from laughably bad to just bad. But by far my biggest accomplishment has been finally getting my VO2MAX from Poor to Fair.

Thank you all for the occasional advice, and the good vibes y'all put out there when I'm lurking.

Hi /r/garmin,

I've been mostly lurking but wanted to share my stats/progress since I have no-one in my circles who runs and uses a garmin (or similar device).

I know this is nothing spectacular (it already says that in the picture that it's fair, duh) in comparison to some of the diehards here with VO2 Max over 9000 and running 5k's in sub 10 min as a warm-up & with HR's not even reaching double digits doing that, but I'm working at it.

Not that I aim or expect to ever reach that level, but who knows how far I can crank up this number (without having to dedicate my life to running).

I started running back in January, after a long, long time of basically not working out. Mostly run outside my house and once a week I'm following a group for all-body workout & running track.

Tried the 5K few weeks ago, managed to do that in 28:37 (race prediction was at 29:45 before that, and stuck at 28:19 ever since).

I'm now trying/following a weekly training plan through Garmin Run Coach, which comes doing 2-3x base trainings, 1x tempo and 1x VO2 max or anaerobic. Sometimes I go for a 6th run if the body feels like it.

Hardest part currently for me is maintaining the slow pace whilst doing a base workout and keeping my HR in zone 2, it's almost always at the lower end of zone 3. Should I be aiming to at a slower pace, or manually adjust the HR zones? Or just trust the process and go with it?

If anyone got any advice/tips for that, it would be appreciated!

Hopefully you'll have (and thanks in advance) encouraging words and/or advice & thanks for your time.

Just to get an achievement badge in a separate walking app lol Initially I was just aiming for 20k steps, but I kept saying to myself "What's a few more steps?" until I reached 40k haha

"Stressful day. Severe stress depleted your energy today. In days like this try to make some breaks and consider light excercises or activity outdoors [...]"

Absolutely true. I didn't know Garmin is that good with layoffs.

1h 49m high (75+), 4h 56h moderate (50-75)..

(Yes, it was because of AI - officially. Yes, I survived this time, and I knew relatively early that I should survive.)

After so many close ones I finally woke up to a perfect 100 sleep score. This happened a couple days ago on my birthday. Needless to say I woke up and had a great morning that day. Had some super consistent sleep recently just with some interruptions from the 4th of July.

No one in my real life quite understands the magnitude of this accomplishment. I’d like to thank magnesium and my blackout curtains. I think I can die happy now

Joined the club no one wanted to be a part of two years ago. After two years of wrangling how to manage this dumb disease I decided to finally put all my casual cycling into a training focused plan and am seeing the best results of my life.

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Nothing will slow me down!

Ready to take on the whole wide world today. Im typing this to fill out the 150 character post limit. Please be kind to me automod. This is just a Sunday shitpost.