{"id":62154,"date":"2020-07-24T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/is-your-fitness-tracker-down-this-might-be-why\/"},"modified":"2020-07-24T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:49:00","slug":"is-your-fitness-tracker-down-this-might-be-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/is-your-fitness-tracker-down-this-might-be-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your fitness tracker down? This might be why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t
By KELVIN CHAN<\/strong><\/ins><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t AP Business Writer<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t LONDON — GPS device-maker Garmin’s online fitness tracking service has gone down, leaving runners and cyclists struggling to upload data from their latest workouts.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Garmin Connect, an app and website that works with the company’s popular line of fitness watches, remained out of service on Friday. The U.S. company had apologized for the disruption a day earlier, when it indicated the problem was more widespread and also affected its communications systems.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t FlyGarmin, the company’s navigational support service for pilots, was also hit by the outage, which down took the service’s website and mobile app.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “We are currently experiencing an outage that affects Garmin.com and Garmin Connect,” the company said on its Twitter accounts and website. “This outage also affects our call centers, and we are currently unable to receive any calls, emails or online chats. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and apologize for this inconvenience.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Fitness enthusiasts took to social media to vent their frustrations about not being able to use the service. Runners said that while the outage doesn’t stop them from training, not being able to use Garmin Connect means they can’t track their workout data or share their routes on Strava, a social network for runners and cyclists.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Atlanta tech executive Caroline Dunn, who runs five days a week and finished the New York Marathon in 2018, said the outage means she and her running friends can’t send each other kudos – Strava’s version of Facebook’s likes – to encourage each other.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t