Curse you, Garmin. Damn your eyes.

[Rignold]

So, having dropped elder son off at Beavers, I took advantage of the time to get in a hill run. Did a warm up run which was gruesome and rather hard going, but I have taken to not taking any notice of how I feel for the first mile or two of a run as it often has no bearing on how the rest of the run will go. And so it was today. Attacked the first hill with vim and vigour and found my stride. So much so that I decided to carry on and fill the hour I had at my disposal. And it was good. My pace seemed to pick up with every passing kilometre without much in the way of conscious effort on my part. I felt really good. As I was heading back up the bypass I realised I was going to do 10k and a PB as well. I had averaged just under 6min/km, which, given that I had done 135m of vertical gain in the first few km, was pretty good going for me.

Then... at 47 mins, 8.43km, disaster struck.

BLEEPBLEEPBLEEPBLEEPBLEEPBLEEP went the Garmin and switched off, its energy spent just as mine was peaking. I said something which is best rendered here as BLEEP BLEEP BLEEPING GARMIN BLEEP as well.

It sounds ridiculous I know, but it totally took the shine off my run. I got a rough overall time by the clock in the car when I got back to the Scout Hut. Under an hour for definite but 57? 55? No idea. The sweet taste of victory turns to ashes in the mouth.

All these kilometre splits will be lost in time... like tears... in rain. To slightly paraphrase Roy Batty at the end of Blade Runner.

(NB all of this is clearly entirely the fault of the Garmin, and in no way my own fault for not charging it more frequently.)

[Nellyharte Graduate]

Ah rubbish, so annoying when you want to stare at the amazing run you just did and save it and look at it later in the day to be sure to be sure (yes I am Irish so allowed to say that). Felt the need to reply immediately when I saw this as my miss garmin failed me yesterday too but luckily I was competing so had a back up chip! Funnily enough I thought they charged themselves every night too when the world snuggled up in bed!!

Well done on a great run and added well done for hills......I try to avoid them

[Ejbirdy Graduate]

Oh dear - maybe you were running so fast your watch just couldn't keep up

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I don't have a Garmin, I use Runkeeper on my phone. The same thing happened to me, but next time I charged my phone my run was there waiting for me....is there no chance your watch might do the same thing?

[GoogleMe Graduate]

Ah, commiserations. Declare whatever time you need for it to have been a PB!

[poppypug Graduate]

Ah, what a shame. This happened to me with my Runtracker, well it was entirely my fault because I forgot to press the start button I was miffed, it was like the run had never happened . Modern technology - Pah ! xxx