I had another of those unfortunate incidents this morning when I got myself up early for a bike ride and failed to turn my Garmin watch on to record it.
I only noticed when I went to pause the timer when I had to dismount to overcome some building works on the cycle track and realised that it had not been recording.
Whilst of course I knew that I had been riding for probably around 15 minutes at that point, of course this would not be shown on my Strava account so, as far asthe world was concerned, I had been lazy this morning and had reduced my usual cycle time by 1/3.
I was a relatively late adopter of the fitness gadgets. I started with a Fitbit (I think it is still around somewhere in the depths of a cupboard).
This was not particularly sophisticated (if I went for a morning bike ride it usually thought I was running so it was great for my steps!) and had a complex charging device which meant that if you lost your charger you had to get a new one from the manufacturer rather than getting a “grey” market replacement.
I replaced this 3 or 4 years ago with an all signing, all dancing, Garmin which was much more sophisticated (and when I was travelling on my sabbatical last year and realised I had lost my charger when in Japan I was able relatively easily to get a cheap replacement).
Garmin also has an arrangement with Strava that you can upload your run/bike ride swim/golf game to their platform which makes it easier to find a community of like minded sports enthusiasts to whom you can broadcast your achievements.
I have recently read that Strava and Garmin have fallen out of and are suing each other so I guess it may be at some point no longer be possible to transport my ride data onto Strava but for the time being, it remains the platform of record that yes, I did indeed achieve a certain, time, speed and distance during my ride this morning (if I manage to turn the timer on).
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