This morning (Sep 2nd) I got an email from Twitter announcing that they will be introducing changes over the next two weeks - starting by phasing out the authentication method that the iPhone app uses on August 31st. That was 2 days ago. I am working 24/7 to read up on the new authentication method and hope to have an update tested and submitted to Apple by the end of Labor Day weekend.
Tim
Everybody runs or bikes for a reason and sometimes the reason is charity. I have been thinking of ways in which LogYourRun can help our users with their charity goals and for the month of August I will test what kind of response putting a link on the front page of LogYourRun will generate. At the end of August I will be riding around 350 miles over 4 days to raise awareness for Alzheimer's disease. This is part of the Alzheimer's Breakthrough Ride with the goal of raising money for Alzheimer's research and collecting signatures for a petition to Congress to take steps to come up with a national plan for how to deal with Alzheimer's in the future.
The calorie calculator has been updated to use the metabolic equivalent (MET) to calculate the calories burned during exercise. The calories burned are based on activity, distance, time, and weight - so all of those factors have to be present in an exercise activity for the log to calculate calories. Currently calories are calculated for walking, running, biking, and swimming.
The new LogYourRun weight graph uses the google graphing tools to let you visualize your measured weight as well as your 5 day moving average. The interactive graph lets you zoom around and see your progress. You can also choose to visualize your percentage body fat if you record this measure.
Life just got easier for triathletes and other people that like to enter multiple activities for one day. Now the activity overview page has a link at the top of the page which will take you to the enter data page for that particular day. See the video below for details.
Back in 2006 before I created LogYourRun I was training for the Saint Louis half marathon and using an excel spreadsheet that I got from one of my friends to keep track of my mileage and running times. The spreadsheet worked great but I quickly found that when training it is also very useful to keep track of pains and aches so you can correlate pain with the amount of effort put in. I also found that I often wanted to enter my data when I was not near the computer that had my spreadsheet on it.
So I created a very simple online running log to keep track of my mileage, time, and injuries. This way I could see my data from any computer and I could visualize the data any way I wanted. Since 2006 I have continuously been adding new features to LogYourRun, largely based on great suggestions that have come from the users of the site.
I am testing out an updated version of the mobile site which offers access to more of the features of LogYourRun. Please visit http://www.logyourrun.com/mobile/ on your mobile device and let me know in the forum section if something is not behaving as expected.
The route tracing tool has been updated again. Now the default route tracing tool is full screen to make it easier to draw the routes. The tool now also works with internet explorer. If you are not using explorer you will still be able to use the previous two versions of the route tool (these can be accessed from the routes main page).
In addition to updating the route tracing tool, it is now also possible to edit your saved routes and save them as new routes.
Let me know on the forum if there are any bugs or additional features you would like to see.
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