W8R2 - bloomin' Google Assistant trying to sabotage my run!! Beep beep beep!

[pippkins]

I now know why I have been losing sound on my smart phone at the beginning of my sessions for the past few runs - this crazy app suddenly decides to pop up and possess my device!

Today in particular it went super crazy, making multiple beeps - arrgh! I had to keep getting my phone out, mid run, to fiddle with it in an attempt to disable it; now sat at home, I think I have succeeded but looking online I see other folks having similar issues even after disabling - I will see what happens on my next run! It means for now that I just get my intro walk then the set off for the run... and have to manually check the phone for when my 28 minutes is up. Grrr.

So my run today was OK apart from the phone annoyance; got to admit, it really stressed me out. I was also dismayed to see a few crowds of folks walking abreast on the paths rather than single-file when passing others, where was the 6-foot rule? I thought about doing a devious fake cough when passing them, but thought better of it! Instead I jumped through the bushes when they got near me, totally ruined my pace but hey-ho. The run was done in the end and at least it was sunny!

Will look at other places to run for Thursday but I would rather not have to resort to using the car to get there!

[Fionamags Graduate]

My run yesterday on the canal towpath was the same. Couldnt avoid folk so I was holding my breath when i passed them. Im changing my route to run in a big open park so i can avoid the hordes!

Weird thing with ur phone. I never have any pribs with the app. Only thing is occasionally i dont get the halfway bell.

[pippkins Graduate in reply to Fionamags]

Yep, I hold my breath when passing by folks too!

There is a large open park that I think I'll try next, or I'll hit the roads instead - but it is very hilly in my neighbourhood so that could be a challenge!

If my phone acts up again (I only got it in November) I'll just use it for Endomondo to track my pace and have an old-school mp3 player to listen to my tunes.

4 more runs left until graduation, I think I'll muddle through until then