I have kept a running log for just over a year now, and it's been invaluable to me. Obviously now it's over a yearI have been able to look back and see the difference a year has made. It's been a great motivation tool.
i think it has to be the right one for you and personally I've found www.fetcheveryone.com meets my needs more or less totally.
Anyone else out there use one on line?
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i was lucky enough to find out about it in the early days. I "met" Fetch on the Wokingham thread in early 05, so that got me started. I wish I'd done one from the very start of my training, when run 1 minute was hard work.
Even with only a month or so's worth of data I can still see where I have improved.
I like the idea that you can plan your training on there. If you do not train on a day that you have planned, you have to delete it from your training log and that is not a good feeling. It motivates you to get out and run.
Also, the fact that others can support you and give you feedback on your training and races is really great, you feel like you are part of a team.
If you want a place to log all your miles; have fetch tell you what pace you were doing; how fast you could run a marathon based on your training; provide a database of more races than you could ever run; answer mundane and extraordinary training questions; receive motivation; provide an outlet to motivate others; etc etc etc
it's all there on fetch.
3000 members can't be wrong.
http://www.serpentine.org.uk/advice/training/log.htm#weblog
Have you tried FE?
Nobel prize for Mr Fetch!
:-)
I'm another Fetch user! I tried the Serpentine log thing for a while before I tried Fetch, but as a relative beginner I found that the community thing on Fetch was a big spur to keep me going out.
As for running logs in general - I used to run a couple of times in a week, and then fall away from it, and go for months without, feeling guilty and then getting enthused for a week or so - and so on. Until I started recording my runs, that is - it's a great motivator to see your self improve over a course, or be able to run longer/further!
I'd also say blogging about your runs is a good indicator of how far you've come. It also helps you identify patterns etc in your training. I use a different one, but I think I'm right in saying that FE has a blogging side to it?
xx
Last time I did the Bushy Park TT I had about 400 credits resting on me getting a PB. It was very motivating as I was going around, knowing that there was some much at stake (in a virtual sense). I didn't quite manage the PB but I gave it everything anyway.
I didn't start to use it straight away though. Now, I blog most days and it has been usefull to see how injury, mood, weather etc has affected my running somedays.
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!
I like to graph.....
I say grew becuase built would sound far too organised.
I have seen the prototype pages where Fetch lets you download the data in csv or XML (Please let the final version be xml) - once that's ready then I'll join Blackers on the graphing!
I think I may have I've heard of it. Is it good? Are the members mostly 'hot' chicks and 'cool' dudes.
I heard that the male members were all stallions, adonises (adoni?) who will stop at nothing to become the perfect runner, and the females all lithe beauties who bound like gazelles with a grace and beauty known to no others.
:-)