Dead Garmin Forerunner 305

This has happened to me twice now. The thing goes dead, has a blank screen, and becomes totally unresponsive. Each time I have assumed that the battery has given out or it's not connecting properly with the recharger.

BUT! It just needed to be rebooted.

Press the mode and the lap/reset button simultaneously for a few seconds and voila, it comes back to life!

It didn't even lose any data.

I don't know why it occurs, or what prompts it to go dead. This fix is listed in the manual, but it's not obvious to find.

It's become increasingly obvious that I've become addicted to my Garmin, too, since I really don't like to run without it any more and was even thinking of buying a new one when I thought this one was dead. I want to know my current pace, average pace, and distance run. All the time.

Yay! Fixed!

I'm almost fully back in action! Dell provided, believe it or not, in-home repair of my new laptop -- even here in our remote little village! Very cool! So that's fixed, and I just have to go buy a new wireless router to replace the lightning-fried one to get it back in action at home. I'd like to get it a cellular modem but as far as I can tell that's about $100 plus $60/month subscription, which is a little too rich for me, not subsidized by a workplace or anything.

We've also transferred my big old more powerful desktop over to this house and that's up and running (which I'm using now). Our last thing to do is to get the old desktop examined by a computer guy and get it certified fried for the insurance, and hopefully recover the hard disk from it.

Technology. Gotta love it.

Yeah, and I also ran 5K today with my cold, and was surprised that I was still doing 11-minute miles. I'll take it. But I was beat the rest of the day.