'05 Log ?

Yes, I've had 2 logs in 2005...........I'm looking forward to another
one today.

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Yes, I've had 2 logs in 2005...........I'm looking forward to another
one today.

There's your problem! You need more roughage in your diet.

Donovan Rebbechi said:

OK, sent. Since I've already emailed it 3 times, anyone else who wants it
can go to

uhmm. how do I use it?

gym gravity said:

Donovan Rebbechi said:

OK, sent. Since I've already emailed it 3 times, anyone else who wants it
can go to

uhmm. how do I use it?

For a given day,

enter milage for workout 1 in column C
enter the shoe number for workout 1 in column D. The shoe number
corresponds to the number in the shoe sheet.

enter the comment for workout 1 in column G

In the shoe sheet, replace the "name" field of shoe 1 (row 2, col A) with
one of your pairs of shoes (e.g. Asics 2090). Put the milage you've
already got on that shoe in the "last year" column (row 3, col A). Repeat
this for other pairs of shoes. Repeat this for all other shoes. For
example, if you have a pair of DS trainers, put those in col B on the
shoe sheet.

So now if you do a workout using your Asics 2090, you should put '1' in
the shoe column for that workout, but if you use the DS Trainer, you should
put '2' in the shoe column.

If you do another workout, do the same in columnds E,F,H for
workout 2.

HTH.

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

that all seems simple, so my problem must reflect my computer illiteracy.

I open the file with excel and I see an incompatible format window, I
close that by clicking ok, and I see a spreadsheet with a bunch of
symbols all over it.

that all seems simple, so my problem must reflect my computer illiteracy.

I open the file with excel and I see an incompatible format window, I
close that by clicking ok, and I see a spreadsheet with a bunch of
symbols all over it.

gym gravity said:

that all seems simple, so my problem must reflect my computer illiteracy.

I open the file with excel and I see an incompatible format window, I

It's compressed. Try uncompressing it first with a compression tool. Start
here: http://www.gzip.org/

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

gym gravity said:

that all seems simple, so my problem must reflect my computer illiteracy.

I open the file with excel and I see an incompatible format window, I

It's compressed. Try uncompressing it first with a compression tool. Start
here: http://www.gzip.org/

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

Doug Freese said:

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Thinnmann 2005 is here: http://thinnmann.com/runlog.htm

I also found and fixed several of those bugs in the 2004 version.

I'm trying logrun.xls this year. It's created by David S. Hays, O.D.
of Vision Care Associates. I don't have a URL for

As member of Vision Care maybe he has at least proofread the functions.
🙂

I see the URL and will look but since you have used both how do the
compare?

-DF

Well, Thinnmann uses a tab for each month which I kind of like and has the dates preset so you just log the type of run,
time and distance. It has room for 2 runs per day. It track shoe mileage and there are 2 pages for mileage totals. One
is a graph and one a column.

I just started using Logrun.xls but so far it seems to be a bit more complete adding heart rate to the equations.
Although I don't track my HR, Maybe I'll start now.
You enter a date, distance,time and HR and it gives %HR, pace/mile week to date, month to date and year to date mileage.
The tabs are set up for Training Plans, Totals per Month, Totals per Week, 30 day totals(graph), 7 day totals(graph),
Around the World graph, weight and weight graph, race history a running calculator page and a few others I haven't
looked at yet.

Best thing to do is download and play with them for a while.

Malcontent

Doug,
Were there *really* that many bugs in the file last year?
That is what one gets for waiting until last minute and then redoing
it while on a ski vacation...
So I put it together early in December and had some people download
the beta version to make sure it was OK.... and there was an = where
there should have been a - , and later there was an O33 where there
should have been an O34...
But the 2005 version is up on the site and it is functioning fine.
Anyone can download it at http://thinnmann.com

In addition to running mileage, you can record swimming and cycling
this year, heart rate data, weight and calorie data, and get some nice
graphs. I added internal links to ease navigation, since the number
of sheets has grown.

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:37:33 GMT, "Doug Freese" <[email hidden]>

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I just use a spreadsheet (Excel or Works Spreadsheet) That way, you
don't have to use somebody else's form and squeeze into it things that
there really isn't room for.

A year or two ago I played with thinnman which was an Excel template
for the year. I started in January and about a week into it I found a
bug with a function. I fixed it and sent back to the author. After
about three more I felt I was back a work debugging bloody programs and
stopped using it. Whose knows, maybe there will be a 2005 version sans
ants and lice.

Err, no, I don't want to create my own excel file and functions - too
much like work.

-Doug

I *knew* the shoe tracking method looked familiar when I looked at
yours, Donovan....

Why aren't you running with RVRR?

http://rvrr.org

Donovan Rebbechi said:

I downloaded the thinnman one, and that gave me some good ideas. So I did
a similar one for myself, with the shoe logging functions, then added some
things I wanted like monthly milage, and a chart that displays weekly milage.

I've got a 2005 version if anyone's interested, though I suspect most of the
posters here are capable of writing their own one that's at least as good.

Cheers,

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:51:07 GMT, Malcolm_Tempt@The World.net wrote:

I have looked at this guy's and it is very good - especially the way
you can start it on any date you want. It doesn't have to be
rewritten every year, I believe.

I think there are a lot of free online logs that seem to have popped
up if you do a search for them.

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Oohh, just found it. The URL to logrun.xls

http://www.davidhays.net/running/runlog/runlog.html

thinnmannREMOVE_THE_CAPITAL_TEXT@@@@yahoo.com thinnmannREMOVE_THE_CAPITAL_TEXT@@ said:

I *knew* the shoe tracking method looked familiar when I looked at
yours, Donovan....

Too good an idea to pass up (-; I've found that extremely useful, as I'm sure
everyone who's ever downloaded yours (and now mine) has.

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Why aren't you running with RVRR?

http://rvrr.org

For the most part, I like to run the NY races, which is why I run with a NY
based club. The main advantage of the nyrr races is that it's a convenient
commute for me, and the races are for the most part well organised. In NJ,
some of the races I've done were very good, but some weren't. This year I
want to pick out a couple of good 10k races in NJ (which ones do you
recommend?)

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

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Doug,
Were there *really* that many bugs in the file last year?

I found about three in January if I remember correctly. For all I know
that may have been the only three for all 12 months and in the grand
picture a trivial amount of problems. For those following this, you
were very response to problems.

In all fairness I wrote programming tools for 30 years and spent lots of
time designing, coding and testing. Even the small amount of time I
spent in debug mode reminded of work and what I has escaped and my
patience was thin. I can see you did a lot of work and the fact that
you give it out for free and care and feed it, is really appreciated.
Hopefully I'm the only curmudgeon. 😉

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That is what one gets for waiting until last minute and then redoing
it while on a ski vacation...

Any juicy stories about the "vacation" besides the skiing? Some
voluptuous snow bunny was helping you type?

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But the 2005 version is up on the site and it is functioning fine.
Anyone can download it at http://thinnmann.com

I did like the format and ease of use and I grabbed the 2005 version.
The good news, no problems in the first 4 days. 🙂

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In addition to running mileage, you can record swimming and cycling
this year, heart rate data, weight and calorie data, and get some nice
graphs. I added internal links to ease navigation, since the number
of sheets has grown.

I only have a single digit IQ and the recording patience of a water
spider so all I want to record is mileage. I know of folks on r.r will
probably want a few thousand other columns to record bowel movements,
color toilet paper, WAVA numbers, etc but I'm not one of those. Will I
cause any problems if I deleted columns P-X ( cross train notes through
sleep). Maybe I'll use calories column to record my beer and wine
consumption. 🙂

-DougF

I just use grid paper and document date, time,distance, temp,RHR and
weight. Would like to include more info but I'm just starting to log my
runs again and decided to keep it simple.

Lanceandrew said:

any day's a great day to "start-a-new", however i suppose i can get a little
wrapped up with the symbolic nature of new year's day being the best day to
employ a new regiment.

mine? a runner's log! hoo-ray for me! (now let's see how long it last).
anyone know of some good free runner's logs out the on-line? i don't mind
trading an email address (registering) for a good runner's log that i can
manage on-line. anyone out there using one? which are the better ones? i
would love to start 2005 off right with a log. what better day to start a
log than on saturday?

i'm also considering going out today and buying a HRM....with the intention of
course of employing it in a training regiment. more data for the log too. i
suppose. what are you guys and gals charting w/your log?...distance, temps?
shoes and milage on a specific pair? type of run? (hill training, etc.)?

happy new year to all...be safe and healty for 2005....

I've been using Nike's running log <http://www.nike.com/nikerunning/>
You have to register, but I don't get spam from them. It is a Flash
based app that keeps your data on their server. You can log your info at
any internet accessible computer. It fits my needs perfectly. I like to
record my distance; track my shoe mileage; track time, place, temp and
conditions. I like the way everything is presented and the ease of
entering the info. I've never entered a Nike shoe into the shoe tracker
and I haven't been booted from the system yet!

Also used Road Runners Sports log and Runners World log but found them
to be lacking.

Ridgewood on Memorial Day, Newport 10K in June, Joel P Spector, Paramus
and East Brunswick in the Fall. Keep an eye on the race calendar at
http://usatfnj.org/ldr/index.html

killing those columns should only kill the graphs, which you can also
nuke if you want. I hide workout #2 columns myself, plus change "cross
training notes" (col P) to record my "barefoot minutes" and calculate a
"percent barefoot" at the top of the column.

I have been running about a third of my mileage barefoot (or with
minimal shoes in winter), with fantastic results - improved racing and
no more twisted ankles or lower-leg overuse injuries!

Doug Freese said:

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I only have a single digit IQ and the recording patience of a water
spider so all I want to record is mileage. I know of folks on r.r will
probably want a few thousand other columns to record bowel movements,
color toilet paper, WAVA numbers, etc but I'm not one of those. Will I

Mine is basically just a milage tracker which lets you track across multiple
pairs of shoes. You can safely ignore the shoe part if you like, though I find
if you rotate multiple pairs (almost half a dozen in my case) and like to keep
track of milage on your shoes, it makes life much simpler.

I tend to just put other things (race times, workout performances) in the
comments field and if I want to check past performances in a workout, I just
use the search functions. I don't do enough races for those to need a
spreadsheet, and I doubt many people here do (besides Lance perhaps)

Cheers,
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Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

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Mine is basically just a milage tracker which lets you track across
multiple
pairs of shoes. You can safely ignore the shoe part if you like,
though I find
if you rotate multiple pairs (almost half a dozen in my case) and like
to keep
track of milage on your shoes, it makes life much simpler.

With that many pairs in rotation you need a spreed sheet to keep track.
😉

-DF