# New: Garmin Integration -- Available To EVERYONE

**URL:** https://community.citystrides.com/t/new-garmin-integration-available-to-everyone/20300
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [April 23, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/new-garmin-integration-available-to-everyone/20300 "2020-04-23T23:18:48Z")
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### Author: ![JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/jameschevalier/32/2_2.png) [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/new-garmin-integration-available-to-everyone/20300/162 "2020-05-11T18:25:56Z")

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> [@Sarah](#):
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> I hope this helps!

Yes! A bunch! Thank you.

> [@Sarah](#):
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> I paused Garmin so Strava could pull in 2014-2019 data

Pausing Garmin while it (potentially) wasn’t complete in bringing in that history made it so that it definitely will not bring in that history. I’ll need to do some manual stuff to get any missing Garmin activities now – not a _huge_ issue, because I think I’m starting to see some patterns where this will be required anyway.

One problematic piece to this is that, right now, I’ve disabled history syncing for non-new Strava accounts. It’s not a big effort to manually re-start that for you though - just share your profile link and I can get that going. You will need to keep Strava un-paused for this to work (as the code is right now).  
You _could_ keep both Garmin & Strava unpaused, and new activities will be imported by whichever service notifies CityStrides first (likely Garmin). This would decrease your _new_ activity API calls by 1 (not much, but it’s something). If you expect to eventually use Garmin exclusively, then that would make sense.

Thanks for working through all the confusing bits - I obviously haven’t sorted all of this out yet.

> [@aidangrant](#):
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> do you store the type within CS?

I do! I normalize all the different service’s naming schemes down to simply “running” and “walking” to make it easier on myself … I had that much forethought, at least (for the filtering options you mention).

> [@aidangrant](#):
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> dare I suggest bike rides?

I’ve gotten a fair amount of requests for it [Have a city pedal/bike site](https://community.citystrides.com/t/have-a-city-pedal-bike-site/14336) … it’s still (from my perspective) quite an amount of work, to make sure that cycling activities are separate from running/walking. 🤔 🤷‍♂️

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