Alas, things are not looking good!

This morning my Garmin wouldn\’t turn on; and I was sure I remembered charging it up after my ride day before yesterday.

I was already running (pedaling?) late; so I did a short ride without it. At least I know where my five-mile point is; and that helped. I\’m waiting for somebody to come fix my ceiling; and while I wait I tried plugging the Garmin into my laptop. No response from the Garmin. I tried a different charging cable with the same result; namely, nothing happened.

I\’ll have to go to the bike shop and let them have a look at the thing. I hope it\’s not worn out and needs replacing! I haven\’t had it for quite three years; and at the time I bought it, it cost over $400. I expect something with a price tag like that to last a long time!

Lately I\’ve been getting some strange heart-rate readings from that Garmin. A ride summary might show that I attained a max heart rate that is in my Zone 5; but when I checked for time spent in heart rate zones, it showed zero for Zone 5. Maybe I was in Z-5 for only a split second; but maybe something about the Garmin was awry? When I\’m riding and see a HR in the 180s on the readout screen, I know something weird is going on; and maybe it\’s not looking good.