spirograph crazyness

[Windoze]

hmm ok my last 2 runs my Nike plus app has been playing spirograph instead of paying attention.....now being an IT geek time to figure out wots going on with the crazy little app....

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What the heck is that?! it must be the day for tech fails, I use an app called Pacer, which is normally rock-solid reliable for me, and this morning it told me that at 3k I suddenly jumped from about 6:45/km to 4:07/km. I don't understand lol Hope you get it sorted, though the pictures do look nice

[Windoze Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

looks like google location services was not enabled for the app 🤔 will find out tomorrow on park run 😁

[ju-ju- Graduate10]

I used to love spirograph!!

[SaskAlliecat Graduate10 in reply to ju-ju-]

Me, too!!! Children of the 70's (80's?) unite 😂. Do they even still make it? I spent many hours making funky designs. Loved it (especially because I can't draw anything pretty freehanding it)

[Sqkr in reply to SaskAlliecat]

Haha yes! My best Christmas ever was when Father Christmas bought me a spirograph. I must have drawn 7000 spirograph peacocks that year 😂

[Jay66UK Graduate10 in reply to SaskAlliecat]

Oh yes. smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toy...

[SaskAlliecat Graduate10 in reply to Jay66UK]

I just checked our local toy store's website and they have 2 in stock! Guess what I'm buying today (and reliving my youth!)? Ok, I'll tell my son it's for him, but let's be real, Mom wants to play 😂

[Jay66UK Graduate10 in reply to SaskAlliecat]

If I hadn’t blown my spends on running kit...

[SaskAlliecat Graduate10 in reply to Jay66UK]

😂

[Windoze Graduate10 in reply to SaskAlliecat]

mine was in the 80's 😎🤣

[ancientrunner Graduate10 in reply to SaskAlliecat]

60's I'm afraid. I did buy my great nieces something very similar a couple of years back.

[SaskAlliecat Graduate10 in reply to ancientrunner]

I just picked one up. It’s packed and heading out to the lake with us this weekend 😆. I also saw the store had light brite as well (another HUGE favourite of mine growing up!), but now it is a thin LED battery powered screen instead of a huge plug in monitor. My little niece will be getting one in the next year from her Auntie 🙃

[ancientrunner Graduate10 in reply to SaskAlliecat]

How exciting. I remember the Christmas I got mine. My mum bought me an

Etch-a-sketch recently to makeup for a lifetime of me moaning I'd never had one.

Have fun.

[SaskAlliecat Graduate10 in reply to ancientrunner]

They had that there too! I almost bought that for my niece but went with some play dough instead (she just turned 3). It’s getting more and more fun shopping for her as she gets older (at least until she hits the tween/teens; then it’ll likely just be money 😕)

[sallenson Graduate10]

Nothing will ever beat Spirograph. It made the late 1960s a real pleasure. Apart from finding something to stick the pins into. I must have gone through acres of cardboard.

Oh and Etch-a-Sketch!! That proper Tank picture at the end where you had to follow really detailed instructions and then went wrong if you didn't tick them off with a pencil and you had to start again.

Young people today, they have no idea...

[SaskAlliecat Graduate10 in reply to sallenson]

Now you attach the wheel to the paper with putty....pins are too dangerous, don’t ya know 😆? It does make it easier to use though.

[sallenson Graduate10 in reply to SaskAlliecat]

It's Elf'n'Safeti gorn mad I tell yu. Mad. Sooner w'ere out of that EU the better.

[SaskAlliecat Graduate10 in reply to sallenson]

Just gotta cross the pond and join us Canucks 🇨🇦😁 where you can run in -30C in the winter to +30C in the summer. Variety is the spice of life, you know 😆

[thedarknessjogger Graduate10]

Hi windoze, that happened to me when I accidentally set it to an indoor/treadmill run. Once I reset it back to an outdoor run the map returned and the psychedelic spirograph returned to my my daydreams. good luck!

[Windoze Graduate10 in reply to thedarknessjogger]

thanks for info 😊