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It's hard to believe we are almost at the end of July! It's the fastest/slowest year ever! 

Not too much to report on my end. Running a small amount and doing strength training which i am enjoying. Doing daily exercise is helping me so much! At least to deal with some of the anxiety and uncertainty. It let's me zone out a bit. 

I have run a bit with a neighbhour who we've bubbled with it. So that's been nice. We are permitted of bubbles up to 10 but i know ours is a bit bigger than that with my parents. But other than my family it's the neighbours who have kids so they can play together which is super important for the kids. 

I'm sorry to hear that but I'm not surprised.

Endurance Nation generally has some "key" team events where they try to get a lot of people to participate. This year's biggie was IM St. George.  The running joke on the team was that the new key event would be IM Kazakhstan with all kinds of jokes about we still have Kazakhstan.  Well, guess what was cancelled yesterday.  Yup, "based on the directive by the Government of Kazakhstan in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, we can confirm that the inaugural BI Group IRONMAN Kazakhstan triathlon originally scheduled for August 23 cannot take place in 2020."

I think that a lot of people will be re-evaluating after this year.  Take care!

I think that we can find some places to ride together (yet distant) next time that I am in the area.  I did part of the Tour d'Apple route last week and the Fruitland section was not crazy hilly and had very little traffic.  If you want some gravel riding, I think that we could do Yellow Gap Road from the 276 side.

May the Force be with you!

It sounds like a lot of parents are doing small bubbles in my area. They are signing up for Virtual Academy (our school system has a choice, 1/3 in-person or 100% online for the first semester but you have to pick now) and partnering with one or two other families.

I'm really glad that I have running and biking and walking the dog. It gets me outside and helps with the whole sanity thing.

Today is my last day in the mountains of western North Carolina.  It has been nice to basically be in a bubble at the cabin with runs in the national park and bike rides in the National forest. We’ve ventured out for dinner at places where there was outside dining and strong rules on masks . I’m pleasantly surprised that the majority of people I’ve seen have been wearing masks. There are exceptions of course, but it seems very safe here.

On a different note, I’ve seen s9me people post that their Garmin app is working again. Mine is not. Anyone else still having issues?

And on another different note, it looks like I may be going home just in time for a tropical storm ( potential hurricane)

Re: Garmin.  Bluetooth connection is still flakey for me.  Wired connection is working 100% though so when you get home, give that a try.

Sounds like a plan!  We'll have to investigate the parking situation on 276.  I was thinking Yellow Gap Road (kinda near Pink Beds) to Wolf Ford Road Camping. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/33579880?privacy_code=yQsCrne2CGPvnI6...

If my mother stilled lived with me I would be ( even more) paranoid about bringing COVID home too!
Now, what’s the deal with the road work through Asheville on 26? It doesn’t matter what time I drive through the traffic is at a standstill !  It seems it’s been years since construction started .  I thought Florida was the worse for never ending road work, but Asheville is a real contender .

Thanks, I’ll give it a try.

The I-26 current project is widening the 17 miles between Hendersonville and Asheville, including the BRP bridge (the one that is WAYYYY up there) It should be done in 2024. 

Yes! I love social distancing vacations regardless of COVID! 

+2

BTW, our place is sort of near the airport so if you get sick of I-26, you can get off there and visit us next time -- you know, assuming the timing works out.  And yes, I realize that at that point in your drive, you just want to get to Bryson City...

Thanks! I'll keep that in mind! I may change the route and go up through the Atlanta (ish) to Franklin areas. I have 6 weeks til the next trip up, so we shall see!

earlier this week that had a ransomware attack that pretty well shut them down.  The main issue Garmin wearers had was the inability to upload their workouts ( there was a work around for Strava). The devices still recorded. I’m  not sure if they’ve completely recovered, but I can upload workouts now. 

Same. No workout data was lost. I did lose some steps/sleep data but I can live with that. If my step streak was broken by the outage, I would be very annoyed, though!  I'm currently on day 52.  First world problems, right?  Anyway, I did several bike rides and runs during the outage and all of it uploaded just fine when we they came back online.

https://connect.garmin.com/status/

Same for me. Missing two days worth of step data and that seems to about it. 

Thankfully, I did not weigh myself that morning, or I would have lost that too. The HORROR!