Today was 6 miles in colder, windier weather than it has been this past week. I muddled through and found that I was still running too fast. My overall pace was 9:10/mile, way too fast for a long run. For some reason I've been having trouble slowing down these last two runs. It wasn't as bad today, but I consciously had to keep applying the brakes.
But that's not what today's main point was. After I got home I was going to charge my Garmin before the upcoming trip. When I put it in its cradle and plugged it in the screen didn't display the usual message saying charging is in progress. I tried a few different outlets with the same result. I decided to look up online how to reset the device, which I've done before but it's been awhile. I pressed the buttons as told and it asked me if I wanted to delete all data. I went ahead and said yes, which I had done the previous time. In retrospect I should have thought about it a little more. I haven't been downloading data for quite a long time because the program on the computer crashes any time it starts. Well, come to find out they had an update that solved that issue. I installed the update and sure enough the program started up with no problem. Unfortunately the last run it had downloaded from my Garmin was November of 2011. So I lost all the data for well over a year's worth of runs. Darn it. At least I have the record of all those on this blog, but it would have been nice to have a little more info in a different form. I'm not going to cry too much, though. At least my GPS still works and helps me out during my runs, which is the main purpose I like about it. Maybe I could have saved the data, maybe not. Chalk it up as just another lesson learned.
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