Riders react to the greatest crisis to hit cycling in modern times
Cyclists around the world went into crisis mode on Tuesday night, as Strava, Training Peaks, and Garmin Connect all went down.
All three sites were unavailable from around 17:30 GMT, with some users unable to access the sites until Wednesday morning, as a massive outage to the Amazon Web Services, which provides cloud storage for all three fitness sites.
Our site is experiencing an outage that we’re working to resolve. Stay updated here: https://t.co/rMDUcrmIsd
— Strava Support (@StravaSupport) February 28, 2017
Over on Twitter, no one was quite sure what to do when they were unable to upload their rides (runs and swims) when they got home, with some even questioning whether they’d done any exercise at all.
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#Strava is down!
I REPEAT: STRAVA IS DOWN!!! pic.twitter.com/nbnl6wlG3r— Blutshoofd (@Bouncehead) February 28, 2017
#Strava is down! It recorded my run so it did happen, but if I can't show people, did it actually happen?
— hola senor (@Senor_gulicreza) February 28, 2017
Strava is down! Is life worth living? 😉
— Doug Bentall (@dougbentall) February 28, 2017
The gifs were flowing freely
When @Strava goes down and it's like the #1 most important thing in your life. #stravadown pic.twitter.com/lrB0REOGot
— John M (@milljm9) February 28, 2017
when u find STRAVA down after u've done interval training… pic.twitter.com/ZHfFogi1PN
— tppt (@dnrme) February 28, 2017
TFW you sprint all the traffic lights home and then strava is down @stravawankers pic.twitter.com/nvfgOFoeip
— fisky (@jo_fisk) February 28, 2017
Call in IT support! #Amazondown #stravadown pic.twitter.com/aP0ylxCyGZ
— Daniel Kogan (@Dankogan89) February 28, 2017
Others had an alternative explanation for the outage
Strava is down ………….. I blame disc brakes ! #strava #stravawankers #discbreaks pic.twitter.com/XqhcwAVaxT
— Stuart Morin (@morinhio) February 28, 2017
Some questioned why the mainstream media was failing to report on the crisis
@BBCBreaking have you not heard #Strava is down ? It hasn't even made local news….
— Chris Barnes (@Barnesruns) February 28, 2017
A select few decided to look on the bright side
Jeez can you image if @Strava had gone down on a Sunday?!
— Tricia Clark (@Mackcinn) February 28, 2017
In other news.. Strava is down! OMG! How will I know how slow I was? (Answer: very) #slow
— dawson (@markdawson12) February 28, 2017
But for some it wasn’t quite so bad
Strava is down on my rest day. Well played, well played!
— Thomas Cassidy (@thisistc) February 28, 2017
Oh no! #strava's down, along with a host of web (aka #cloud) based services. As I've got local #documentation of rides, they were done. pic.twitter.com/XQm3xH3Hij
— Paul Yeatman (@zhalien) February 28, 2017
Others had alternative solutions…
.@Strava is down #stravadown pic.twitter.com/0kswa4Vz1Q
— cicloidi (@cicloidi) February 28, 2017
The good news is that all affected websites now seem to be back up and running (excuse the pun) so any exercise you do today will have “officially” happened.