Security concerns with Garmin Connect

OK this might be me being paranoid but I started playing with Garmin Connect last night and noticed a real issue with privacy and security with the service. To start with, when you upload your ride data by default Garmin Connect shares your data with the world unless you specifically change the privacy settings. So all things being equal the average user wont give this...
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Canberra Tour ’10

  To start with, what a great weekend of racing that was. As usual a big thanks to the Canberra Cycling Club, Jason Parkes and all the volunteers for putting on another great tour. Even though this was the lowly D2 race, the grading was just right which made for good competitive racing. Saturday Stage 1 – was a nice 79km stage (which ended up...
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Tour of Canberra stats

With the Tour of Canberra coming up next week here are a few stats which might be of interest. This data was taken from the online entry form which is publicly available material. Some of the age data was a little dodgy so I had to remove of the ages which didn’t make sense, like -14 etc. Men Avg Age NSW ACT VIC SA QLD...
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Garmin 305 with altitude problems

If your Garmin 305 has become faulty and the altitude reading no longer works here is a good work-around I have found. Firstly let me say by faulty I mean the elevation shows up as something like 5,000 or 20,000m. The work-around is really simple, instead of using the Training Centre software supplied by Garmin head over to Zone Five and grab a copy of...
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2009 National Masters Road Championships Entry Stats

For those of you lucky enough or mad enough to be going to the 2009 National Masters Road Championships here is a break down of the competitors for the events and the grades.  For those you who are from the flatter parts of Australia you are not going love the course for the Road Race. Come to think of it the ITT course isn’t much...
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