Despite feeling a bit run down (couldn't decide if it was due to weekend or an oncoming virus) I stepped out of the door at 8.30pm to run my delayed Kick the Couch 5K, my contribution to the Worldwide Festival of Races. Looked down to start my watch, the bloody thing was blank. I went straight back inside to try to get it to work again. It's a fairly new battery, so that shouldn't be dead. I opened it up and found the battery had come loose somehow. I put it back in, put the back of the watch back on, and the screen was still blank. The battery kept slipping out. I tried for ages to get it to stay in place, but it wouldn't.
I looked online, and found a forum wear people moaned at how hard the battery was to change because of a clip thingy which held it in place. I didn't have a clip thingy. My first Garmin did, but I threw that when it got it's chip scrambled. This one I had always taken to a shop for a new battery, so I didn't know if it ever had one. Try as I could, it wouldn't stay in place. I eventually found a few sticky strips on a book of stamps, and had an idea. I taped the bloody battery into position. And it worked. All that was left was to reset it as it didn't seem to work properly now (was this one scrambled too?) That worked, then I had to reconnect it to the footpod (no problem) and the computer. No matter what I did, it didn't like being told to talk to the PC automatically. I eventually got them to talk to each other when I make them, but they won't do it automatically. Having spent 3 hours trying to resuscitate the watch, I decided it was too late to try anymore. At least it was sort of working. Time for bed!
