{"id":25606,"date":"2025-11-16T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=25606"},"modified":"2025-11-16T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:28:08","slug":"garmin-connect-explore-2-and-instinct-2-experimentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/garmin-connect-explore-2-and-instinct-2-experimentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Garmin Connect, Explore 2 and Instinct 2 Experimentation"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

Garmin connect isn’t as smart as I thought. I thought that if I used the Explore 2 with a heart rate belt, that I would get training status and training readiness. For a week I was tracking with the Explore 2 as my primary tracker. Data is missing.<\/p>\n

It’s a shame that it doesn’t work as expected because if I could wear a normal watch while cycling, rather than the instinct 2, then I would avoid tracking the same workout twice.<\/p>\n

At the moment when I go for a bike ride I track with the Garmin Instinct 2 and the Explore 2. If both save the track then I have a primary and backup device. I trust both to work well so I no longer feel the need for a primary and backup device. By tracking with the explore 2, alone I would not need to discard or delete data on one device.<\/p>\n

I had the Explore because I wanted a convenient way to navigate with the bike. I got the Explore 2 because I wanted to have more granular information about the climbs I have done this summer, on the bike. With the old GPS I had some info but it wasn’t as concise. With the Explore 2 it is.<\/p>\n

I switched from the Instinct to the Instinct 2 because I wanted more training data, at an affordable price. The Instinct 2 costs less than 150 CHF and the Garmin Fenix watches cost from 800 CHF onwards.<\/p>\n

And Finally<\/h2>\n

Now that I know if this weakness I know to track bike rides with the Instinct 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>Garmin connect isn’t as smart as I thought. I thought that if I used the Explore 2 with a heart rate belt, that I would get training status and training readiness. For a week I was tracking with the Explore 2 as my primary tracker. Data is missing. It’s a shame that it doesn’t work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[736,9],"tags":[733,7080,713,187,7081,7083,7082],"class_list":["post-25606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling","category-tech-related","tag-cycling","tag-explore-2","tag-fitness","tag-garmin","tag-instinct-2","tag-training-readiness","tag-training-status"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25607,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606\/revisions\/25607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}