Training Peaks Upload Past Fitbit Data?

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With the rise of connected devices that automatically upload your rides and runs upon completion to Garmin Connect, in that location'southward been a corresponding rising in usage of tertiary party sites that synchronize that data to other training log platforms such as Strava and Training Peaks. These middle-human sites operate by copying your activity information automatically upon detection of a new activity beingness uploaded, to the final destination of your option.

It is in some ways ironic that with increased connectivity has come up more complexity in getting files where you lot want them. That's largely due to the fact that Garmin has been less than entirely easy when it comes to getting data where terminate users plan to analyze it. While Garmin Connect does have an API available, that API isn't well documented, nor supported at all, and hasn't been updated in years.

Thus most of these 3rd party applications have had to spend a flake of time contrary applied science how things work. Sometimes that works well, but other times that'due south caused some ripples between Garmin and third party apps – such as with CopyMySports before this year existence throttled from an activity polling standpoint.

Ultimately though, these solutions do offer users a great way to quickly and seamlessly get data from Garmin Connect to 3rd party sites. With that, let'southward run through the three I'm aware of today. Oh, and all of these are gratis.

Tapiriik:

Nosotros'll start off with Tapiriik from the very beginning, which takes you hither, to their landing folio to select which services you lot desire to connect to.

In my case, I'll kickoff with Garmin Connect first:

Once I've done that, y'all'll see how 'Garmin Connect' is shown on the upper half with 'Connected' adjacent to it, while the others are down below indicating they aren't connected to yet.

And so next I'll cull Training Peaks, and complete the aforementioned thing:

Once that'due south complete, you'll run into both listed on the upper one-half. You'll also run into the selection to 'Synchronize now', as well as 'Automatic Synchronization' below it.

In my example, I went with 'Automatic Synchronization', which costs $2 per year. Otherwise, you tin just press the 'at present' button and information technology does it for free.

Afterward I paid my two bucks via PayPal, I was back on the landing page and able to configure settings. In this page I can choose which accounts sync where. Sorta similar beingness a traffic cop.

In my instance, I didn't want to sync from Training Peaks to Garmin Connect, so I unchecked that pick:

And then, I permit information technology practise it's affair for the initial synchronization. Because I have a couple of activities in Garmin Connect (uhh…thousands), this took a fleck of time. I but went to bed. It sorta worked out better that manner.

With that, it finishes some fourth dimension subsequently (just insert some montage music). And, magically, all the activities in my Garmin Connect account show upward in Training Peaks (an business relationship I tend to apply for random testing and thus doesn't have all my activities in it):

In one case it completed, you'll run into how frequent it synchronizes. This is a bit unlike than CopyMySports which does polling at an undefined frequency. In this example, Tapiriik has a divers 60-minute interval.

The next day I went out for a run, and let the Garmin FR620 automatically upload the run similar normal to Garmin Connect via WiFi when I got back to the house. For fun, I timed to encounter how long information technology would accept to bear witness-up in Grooming Peaks. In my case, nigh 10 minutes and 9 seconds. Merely why x minutes? Well, that's just when it happened the next sync would occur – which is every lx minutes. So it was by and large just pure dumb luck it was on the shorter side rather than the longer side.

The long pole in the tent here is pretty much the polling procedure to pickup the activity from the source service (i.east. Garmin Connect). The creation of the activeness in the destination service (i.east. Training Peaks) takes mere seconds.

At this point, the activeness is prepare to utilize as normal for analysis/logging within Preparation Peaks. Note that for Training Peaks you'll need to be either a Premium or Coached member for sync to piece of work, which, I think is a fair business organisation movement.

Of grade, Tapiriik supports other services as well (like Strava), I just happened to use Training Peaks equally my example. Overall information technology works quite well, and is the most 'known' in terms of having a simple countdown clock until sync. While I wish the synchronization were more frequent, I doubtable that's purely a case of not ticking off Garmin with too many requests.

Plus, for free, it's hard to beat.

CopyMySports:

CopyMySports has been around quite a long time, though nether their previous proper noun of 'GarminSync', which they inverse mid-summer. The awarding is largely aimed at copying data from Garmin Connect to Strava, only information technology likewise copies data to RunKeeper as well.

To setup CopyMySports yous'll offset with their habitation page. This is where you lot can setup the sync process to either Strava or RunKeeper (the 2 services they back up today). Down the route they've noted they programme to add support for Training Peaks.

At the bottom of the page you'll see a little box to type in some text. In order to setup CopyMySports you'll basically need to tell the service who you are. Instead of authorizing your Garmin Connect account similar Tapiriik, you're going to provide it with an ID of one of your activities. It then uses that to follow your hereafter activities past looking up your username.

To notice an ID, simply open up upwardly 1 of your activities in Garmin Connect. At the top of your browser in the address bar you'll see the activity ID. I've highlighted it in yellow. It's merely the numerical number.

Re-create that number down (using copy and paste, or one-time-school with a pen and newspaper). Then, paste/write it in the little box. A few seconds later it'll practise a quick validation and let you know the account it belongs to, along with a curt blurb about the activity. Validate all is well there earlier continuing on.

There's a picayune checkbox above (actually two). The first 1 will re-create activities marked every bit private. For example, by default I marker all my activities as private and only publish those I allow to be shared – thus I don't want to bank check that box. The 2d checkbox enables y'all to copy the activity you merely typed in the box above. In my case, I've already published that action to Strava, so I unchecked information technology after I took the screenshot.

Next, I clicked 'Connect with Strava'. This volition bring up a page from Strava that has you authorize CopyMySports. This is similar to (for example) what Twitter does if you lot authorize an application or service with them. It allows you to easily revoke access later on. In my example, I just click 'Authorize' and I'm good to get.

Once I've washed that, information technology'll requite me this petty confirmation page. Notation that in my example I didn't do a majority copy of past activities (though I did for Grooming Peaks with the previous account). You can exercise that to Strava though for older activities using the CopyMySports Majority Copy feature, which volition go back and copy all your older stuff over. In my case, I've got tons of wonkiness in my Garmin Connect business relationship (for example, I oftentimes have 4-6 versions of the same ride recorded since I employ so many devices), so I want to keep my Strava account kinda 'clean'.

Note, if down the road y'all ever want to revoke access to CopyMySports, you tin can do that within the Strava settings and and then 'My Apps' section:

With that, I went ahead and went out for my run and came dorsum. Once inside I pressed the 'Upload' push on my FR620 and let it upload to Garmin Connect. In one case I confirmed the activeness was on Garmin Connect, I was curious to meet how long it would take until it showed up on Strava.

In my case, that was 38 minutes.

CopyMySports aims for a synchronization time as little as every 15 minutes. If you had for example paired your FR220/FR620 or Border 510/810 to your phone and uploaded upon completion at a park somewhere, it'd potentially be there before yous got home. At worst, if you lot finished at abode it's there before y'all're out of the shower.

Every bit you lot can meet, the solution worked well. I know they're working to speed upward the synchronization delay, but like everyone else, is a bit limited there by what Garmin volition tolerate.

SyncMetrics:

(Update as of August 2014: SyncMetrics is no longer operating.)

Now, SyncMetrics is a fleck unlike in scope than the previous two sites. Information technology does Garmin Connect to Strava like the others, but it as well covers more health-focused sites similar Withings, FitBit and iHealth.

With that, let's go things setup. To exercise so, we'll tap 'Register' in the upper correct.

That'll pop-up an account creation folio. Now, I actually like this over the other two sites, as I feel like I have more 'control' over the transactions. Of course, both the other sites take ways to turn things off, but this merely makes it simpler in my mind (I know some would disagree).

It'll send me an account activation e-mail service, to validate I'm a real person and didn't hose upwards my eastward-mail address. I propose clicking on that link you receive if you want to have further success in this venture.

Once yous do that, you'll be brought to the below screen. Which is admittedly a chip confusing (primarily the upper portion). Just ignore all the upper stuff, and focus on the bottom one-half, which is all the accounts you can link upwardly.

Adjacent, I clicked on 'Garmin Connect' in the list to start that setup. Yous'll then click on the Garmin Connect logo, as it specifies in the 'Hint'. I'd suggest a 'Hint' of my ain all the same: If I have to have a hint when that's pretty much the but push/link on the page that'due south not conspicuously a button, perhaps it's time to create a real button.

Next, we'll enter your Garmin Connect credentials in.

Once you've done that, you'll be back here, prepare to link upwardly some other business relationship. In my case, I'm going to spit this out to MapMyFitness. So I'll click MapMyFitness and and then click to 'Authorize'.

I likewise did the aforementioned for RunKeeper, just to run into how that'd work.

Afterward, if y'all were to look at RunKeeper, y'all'd run across the API dominance listed in that location in your settings:

Once that's done, I'1000 presented with options to sync activities to/from Garmin Connect. The challenge though is that I don't accept much control over what happens after I check that box.

And I checked the aforementioned box for RunKeeper.

Now, there'due south some limits hither:

– I can't specify if it's for just newer activities, or also older ones too. Currently, it pulls merely activities after the cosmos date.
– I tin can't specify what to do about private activities, to include, or non to include? Currently it pulls them.

In one case information technology's washed a sync, yous'll run into the activities listed within the window 'Activities' tab. I actually like this a bit, as information technology'due south more of a sync log file, something the other ones lack. I tin can see what got processed easily.

After it syncs you'll see the data on the destination side. Below, you can see my activities copied over from skiing the past few days (I've got indistinguishable activities since I was uploading from dissimilar devices).

I tin and then click on an activeness and see information technology in its fully celebrity:

Now, I had some initial teething problems with the SyncMetrics service, but the support folks were able to take care of it. The interesting aspect to SyncMetrics is that it goes across but the sport side and delves into the weight/sleep side a bit, where the other services shy abroad from that.

Then if your goal is getting more wellness and wellness information moved around, SyncMetrics may be the better option.

Wrap-up:

In looking at the solutions at hand, y'all tin can come across they vary a fleck in implementation, and thus the 'cleanliness' of each solution. Further, some solutions may be faster merely less consistent in terms of speed, while others may exist slower, merely more than consistent. Unfortunately, there is no perfect-instant solution. But, I think that they practise offering quite functional solutions, and ones that ultimately go your information to it's final destinations jazz-hands free.

Now, the fox here is that all of this depends on an API that's just barely there. Garmin deleted the API's main page belatedly this past summer, though the rest of the API documentation is still published. In my recent discussions with them, Garmin has seemingly tried to further distance themselves from even having an API at all (exterior of their corporate wellness program stuff they appear a few months back). I'1000 optimistic however that they'll re-think any 'back of the brain' thoughts about closing things down any (further). Only considering I'd note that the sports technology darling of the globe (Strava) tried doing that this past summer, and that didn't turn out terribly well for them.

Thus, in that vein, here's a fun fact for you (or for Garmin): That Strava API endmost post was shared more than any other post always in the history of this site – including any individual product review at that indicate (which are typically the most pop posts hither). As a outcome, Strava has mostly changed their means, which is a skilful thing.

In the meantime, we can all enjoy the free offerings that are out in that location today, and hopefully down the road sure parties will make information technology easier to use their devices while still using the bountiful and diverse 3rd political party software options built around those devices.

Thanks for reading!