For about 8 years, I’ve kept track of my running mileage in an Excel workbook. Before that, I was logging things in a Claris Works Spreadsheet for a couple years, and before that I had a couple years of paper logs.
The Excel workbook has worked well because it’s functionality has evolved as far as I have been willing to push it. But for a while I’ve felt that its development has stagnated and it has grown unwieldy.
Now that I’ve been benched from running for 4 months (more on that later), I’d like to explore other exercise tracking options that are more amenable to cross training.
Features I’d like:
- Accessible anywhere (i.e. on the web).
- Can accommodate different sorts of workouts (running, biking, weight lifting, pickup frisbee, etc.).
- Exportable to spreadsheets or database files.
- Nice graphical data and meta-data summaries with easily adjustable parameters.
- Easy to track peripheral data such as gear (e.g. shoe mileage) and routes (possibly with maps).
- It would be awesome if there were some kind of API or other method that allowed me to import my running logs from the last 8 years into the system, but I think that may be asking too much.
- Social networking would be nice, but not necessary.
A couple friends (thanks Z and G) suggested Daily Mile. I’m happy with that but it would be nice if it could track strength training as well. Does anyone have other suggestions?
zandperl
September 14, 2009 at 8:09 am
Ooh, if you find one that tracks weights let me know.
Genevieve
September 14, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Looks like you can track rates in dailymile and in mapmyrun… right now I am using both and married to neither! 🙂
halfawake
September 14, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Track rates? What do you mean?