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[Paul]

OK, Micah, are you through padding your post count :question:

Adam, I didn't find your questions snippy at all. I think Dan was just trying to nip anything in the bud before it got out of control. You would have had to be here at the beginning of the year to understand that.

I don't consider myself a computer whiz by any stretch of the imagination, though I do use many at work, including UNIX based apps and a lot of TCP/IP stuff now. I don't have a lot of spreadsheet experience. I also am a horrendously slow typist.

One of the problems I see, is that there aren't any programs out there to take in all the variables that can occur before one's workout. Pulse at wakeup, dietary situation during the day, added stress at work or school, weather conditions, allergies. And that's not even taking into consideration blood makeup on a daily basis, just to get carried away.

A spreadsheet may tell you a few things, and graph some items out for you, but it won't relate to overtraining or predict with any accuracy what you are capable of in the next race. Only you or someone close to you can help with that.

But there is value in many of the online running logs. Since I purchase almost all my gear from Road Runner Sports, I used their Runners Log for quite awhile, but have not used it for two years, now. Mostly because of injuries that kept me on the sidelines for several months.

I hope you stick around. There are good discussions on all the Forums here. Take some time to read some of the posts and you will get a good idea who the experts are in each Forum section. And don't be afraid of posting some of your own results here. We are a huge self cheering group here whatever your level may be.

welcome

Paul

[Paul]

...OK, Micah, I'll start my Samuel Smith moratorium today. But I guess I won't suffer too much. I'm just finishing up my third Captain Morgan's Parrot Bay, with pineapple nectar, and I don't think I've even mispelled any words yet.

...but I might get an email from Dan with all my grammar errors underlined in red!!

Paul

[Dan]

[Paul]

This is true!! A few months ago I was less than ten behind, now Micah has me by over a hundred!! And has reached the lofty World Class status!! :hapcheer: (Tried to insert an emoticon from bigredlizard board. Didn't work)

[AdamWort]

Thanks for the warm welcome!
I have run one marathon and several 10k's.
I started running 4 years ago and my goal for now is to complete my next marathon (this november) in 3:30 . This may be a bit far fetched especially since I just finished my first on in April at 4:06.

Still I'm confident that with hard training it's possible. (somehow)
I got tired of using my pen and paper to log runs. I always had to look back on other pages and find similiar training patterns (same amount of sleep, similar weather conditions etc) and it was just a pain.

So, I started to look for better running programs on the PC. Well, I can tell you that was a big disappointment.

I've already been criticised greatly by others for spamming the running community with my run-4-ever posts. Most people hate that. I just don't know how to spread the word and get people interested in helping develop it, if I don't spam. Plus it's free so I don't see why everyone's complaining about it on other sites.

What do you guys think? Is there a better method of distributing an idea/product ? (in this case a running program)

[Dan]

[Micah Ward]

Adam, Your target for the next marathon may not be too big of a jump. How did you prepare for the first one and what are you doing different for this one in terms of getting faster?
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[cameron]

seems to me that all the time people spend looking for running software and graphs and statistics is a waste of time. you should be running!

[Paul]

I do like the idea of keeping records. Graphs and statisics sometimes have little meaning because of the lack of controls, especially environmental, like weather. I personally found when I used an online log, I seldom referred back to it. When I physically write workouts down, I look at them more often, even to the point of reliving the training experience, which can help me in future training or races.
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[cj_rees]

I have been searching for running log s/w (I have 1 year's worth of data on a s/s, but it's a pain trying to see any real trends...

Found "The Athlete's Diary" and it looks pretty good. Then found the run-down.com site which has a list of about 30 programs but NO written evaluations. I was hoping someone (maybe Runner's World?) could do a comparative study on them. I would appreciate something to help me in this. If there is a better forum to look at , please pint me. Otherwise has anyone had any experience of actually using running log software?

Chris (UK)

[Micah Ward]

As mentioned previously I have shied away from electronic logs in favor of a written log. But that may be because I have been doing it that way since 1977 and can't change my ways.
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[Double]

Micah, your dating yourself. I was getting ready for my junior year of HS cross-country in 1977 in Pennsylvania. Running can be something that truly sticks with you.

[Micah Ward]

Yes....I am an old old man. I was in college when I started keeping the journal.
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[Paul]

Micah, I'm the old man!! You're still a pup.
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