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  • Still a few teething problems with Garmin Connect.

    I wasn't able to get an interval workout onto my 945 for my run this morning. I could create it and edit it on the GC website, and get it on to the Garmin App on my iPhone, and schedule it into the calendar and that appeared in the app correctly. But no amount of syncing or swearing at it got it onto the watch itself.

    Luckily it was a pretty simple workout (warm up, 6x800m at 5:15/km pace, 90s walk recovery between each, then cool down jog home) so I was able to do it manually with the lap button and keeping an eye on the lap screen (which shows Lap Distance, Lap Time, Pace) but it's nicer when the watch just bleeps at me and I can watch the HR screen and not worry about time/distance.

  • Ta.

    I do wonder about their architecture though. The workouts can be synced to the mobile app with no problems. The device can sync activities/etc to the mobile app (and the website) with no problems. But you can't get a workout (which is already on the mobile app) onto the device.

    So many levels of fuckwittery going on there.

    I'm hoping this will all be a big kick up the arse for Garmin to sort out some of their reliance access to servers on the Internet (be they cloud/hybrid or private) in the future. If they don't it might be enough for me to jump ship in the future, and I've been sucking the Garmin cock for many years (eTrex H, Edge 705, Forerunner 110, Forerunner 920xt, Forerunner 935, Forerunner 945).

    (They only dipped 6% in share price due to the recent problems but have recovered most of that already.)

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