- A new leak has revealed an upcoming feature for Garmin watches
- Garmin Connect Rundown shows an annual summary of your fitness stats
- It sheds light on your progress in a number of sports and metrics
Annual summaries 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 might not last, however, as a new leak suggests the company is working on an annual summary of your fitness stats to help you better understand how you have done over the last 12 months.
The feature is dubbed Garmin Connect Rundown, and it was first spotted by fitness website the5krunner. There, the outlet claims that Garmin’s feature will use a variety 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 summary of data aggregated from all Garmin users, and it just provides averages of what Garmin’s customers have been up to. 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 instance, the5krunner says Garmin Connect Rundown will measure your milestones in five sporting categories: running, cycling, swimming, strength and parasports. Each has different achievements – running contains markers for your fastest 5K, 10K, half marathon, full marathon and your longest run, for example. That should ensure 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 lighthearted ways, such as saying that you burned the equivalent of “847 slices of chocolate cake” or covered enough distance to cross the English Channel six times.
As for your favorite activity, this gets its own breakdown where Garmin Connect Rundown goes into more detail. The feature will show your top 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.
Aside from more vigorous activity, Garmin Connect Rundown also provides information on your recovery and wellness. This takes the form of the average duration and score of your nightly sleep, plus your highest sleep score over the course of the last year. As well as that, your “body battery” statistics are noted, such as the average daily charge, drain and high.
Garmin Connect Rundown will presumably be available in the Garmin app at some point in the future, although there’s no release date just yet. It’ll show its statistics using a combination of graphics and text, while you’ll be able to share your figures with friends or on social media.
The best Garmin watches already come with the option to show you evening and morning reports that summarize your past day’s activities, so the Garmin Connect Rundown seems to be a natural extension of that idea. If you can view your progress over the past year, it might help you better understand your current fitness levels and where they might be heading in the future.
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