Today Sarah and I did our usual Prince Edward County weekend ice cream ride. It’s a perfect weekend ride. 50 km round trip. Ice cream at Slickers in Bloomfield is our destination. It’s vaguely uphill getting there and vaguely downhill coming home. There are osprey nests to look out for and we’ve been meaning to make a new Strava segment, from osprey nest to osprey nest.
The ride was great. The ice cream–I had campfire flavour was delicious–and the pool after felt amazing. But the final satisfaction of uploading the ride to Garmin and Strava after, in the shade, with a non alcoholic beer, didn’t happen. Garmin is down. The Garmin connect app on my phone tells me this.
Here’s the work around for manually uploading and transferring files to Strava if it’s really bothering you. Me, I’m waiting it out. But I’m bummed we can’t make our osprey nest Strava segment.
What’s going on, you might wonder?
It’s a major ransom ware attack. Wasted Locker wants millions of dollars from Garmin.
My ride is saved on my Garmin bike computer and it will upload when they’re back in business. It’ll all be fine. I missed seeing how my speeds and times compared to past trips but mostly I’m okay with it.
You? How are you coping fellow Garmin users?
My wife’s Vivoactive 3 is suffering from rapid battery failure. This is a known problem with this model Garmin. Naturally the entire site goes down just as we start doing research on how to fix it. It’s either due to a bad software update, or it needs its battery replaced. Meanwhile my ancient 310XT just keeps going and going and going…
Oh back to how we used to upload to Strava before Garmin gave us Bluetooth connectivity! 😉
I’m so curious—What is campfire flavor ice cream?
Roasted marshmallow