by Andrew Martonik on (#564EQ)
You don't need the Garmin Connect app to get your activities up to the cloud.We all love cloud services, because they store data remotely and let us access it anywhere — that is, until the cloud goes down. You may not realize it, but your Garmin watch requires the company's cloud service to do just about anything, including connect to your smartphone — and when Garmin's services go down, your watch loses all of its syncing features.But thankfully, your workouts and fitness data aren't lost forever — they're still saved locally to your watch, waiting to be uploaded as soon as they connect to the cloud ... whenever that may be. And if you're impatient — and many of us are — you have the option of manually pulling that data off of your watch to save on your computer or upload to another fitness service.Get data from a Garmin watch using WindowsSurprisingly, one of the few Garmin services that's still operational is the download for the Garmin Express desktop softwa...