Here are this week's meanderings around the site. Have also spent some time looking at the market share amongst Fetchies for the big shoe brands. More on that soon. Anyway, here are your fixes:
1) Weight chart max figure fixed. A user who shall remain anonymous pointed out that despite his best efforts, he's yet to achieve a personal fat content of 150%. The scale for the body composition figures has been fixed: fetcheveryone.com/weight.php
2) Mr d's lovely route from Keswick to Skiddaw wasn't showing up, due to a couple of rogue lat/lng points in the middle of the data. This was a bug that was introduced when I converted the routes from Google to OSM: fetcheveryone.com/routes-view.php?id=1794522
3) Big chunk of work here, reinstating badges. Checking eligibility for badges was causing a bit of pain to the server - so I paused it for a couple of months as it wasn't a critical part of what the site offers. But anyway, it's back up and running now - and a big queue of 4800 people should all have their new badges. Before restoring it all, I did some work to improve the efficiency of the eligibility checks - especially for 'longest run' and 'streak' badges. Found the bug that was causing multiple distance badges to be displayed (e.g. Kiev and Moscow at the same time) - but still dealing with a couple of users who are reporting seeing multiple distance badges at the same time. Send me some feedback if you're seeing that: fetcheveryone.com/badges.php
4) A few users (mikep and larkim) reported that the "auto clear planned sessions from training log" wasn't working for them. That should be working nicely now.
5) I updated the mobile nav, with nicer icons, and little highlight effects. See my blogs earlier this week for more on that, including a screenshot comparison.
6) A little tiddler - fixed apostrophes when saving your run as a route.
7) Blog height tidied up. As per (5), see yesterday's blog for a screenshot.
Just to reiterate, the site works BECAUSE of your feedback. It shapes the way it works, and hopefully reassures you that you're dealing with someone who cares, rather than a bot
Click the help icon at the top of the page to send feedback, or leave a comment on this blog. Have a great weekend!
1) Weight chart max figure fixed. A user who shall remain anonymous pointed out that despite his best efforts, he's yet to achieve a personal fat content of 150%. The scale for the body composition figures has been fixed: fetcheveryone.com/weight.php
2) Mr d's lovely route from Keswick to Skiddaw wasn't showing up, due to a couple of rogue lat/lng points in the middle of the data. This was a bug that was introduced when I converted the routes from Google to OSM: fetcheveryone.com/routes-view.php?id=1794522
3) Big chunk of work here, reinstating badges. Checking eligibility for badges was causing a bit of pain to the server - so I paused it for a couple of months as it wasn't a critical part of what the site offers. But anyway, it's back up and running now - and a big queue of 4800 people should all have their new badges. Before restoring it all, I did some work to improve the efficiency of the eligibility checks - especially for 'longest run' and 'streak' badges. Found the bug that was causing multiple distance badges to be displayed (e.g. Kiev and Moscow at the same time) - but still dealing with a couple of users who are reporting seeing multiple distance badges at the same time. Send me some feedback if you're seeing that: fetcheveryone.com/badges.php
4) A few users (mikep and larkim) reported that the "auto clear planned sessions from training log" wasn't working for them. That should be working nicely now.
5) I updated the mobile nav, with nicer icons, and little highlight effects. See my blogs earlier this week for more on that, including a screenshot comparison.
6) A little tiddler - fixed apostrophes when saving your run as a route.
7) Blog height tidied up. As per (5), see yesterday's blog for a screenshot.
Just to reiterate, the site works BECAUSE of your feedback. It shapes the way it works, and hopefully reassures you that you're dealing with someone who cares, rather than a bot
Click the help icon at the top of the page to send feedback, or leave a comment on this blog. Have a great weekend!
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
Following Nightjar's suggestion, I've tidied up the height of the blog header, leaving more room for all your lovely writings when viewed on mobile. I think the amount of red is a bit OTT now, but just focus on the improvement to the top bit for now, if you'd be so kind. I'll probably change that date box a wee bit.
Changes modelled by the awesome McGoohan's blog (highly recommended):
Changes modelled by the awesome McGoohan's blog (highly recommended):
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Looking good.Ness7:21pm, 30th Aug 2018
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*blushes and bows*McGoohan7:22pm, 30th Aug 2018
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Oh you mean the layout? That tooMcGoohan7:22pm, 30th Aug 2018
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Can we have the shortcut menu back on mobile please?SPR7:49pm, 30th Aug 2018
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Smart!Sigh9:06pm, 30th Aug 2018
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I'm liking the new changes. I'm not a big smart phone user, so hate all teh scrolling you need to do. I'm enjoying being able to keep up with fetch on my phone nowJenelopy9:40pm, 30th Aug 2018
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It looks good although I only visit the site on a PC rather than a phone so I probably won't notice it all that much until I get a better phoneBaronessBL11:22pm, 30th Aug 2018
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Good stuff. Loads of little improvements making an awesome site betterer and betterer. Such great value for money.Angus Clydesdale11:33pm, 30th Aug 2018
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Tidy!sallykate9:52am, 31st Aug 2018
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Re shortcut, thanks.SPR10:05am, 31st Aug 2018
The site was locking people out last night, from about 8.34pm through 'til 8:55pm, due to a crashed table in our database. During that time I had lots of concerned feedback messages from people worried that they'd been banned / deleted / etc. So I thought it'd be worth pointing you all at our Twitter account. If there's a site problem, I will usually post something there to keep you up-to-date.
Our Twitter username is (unsurprisingly) @fetcheveryone - follow that for all sorts of updates relating to the site:
twitter.com
Cheers
Our Twitter username is (unsurprisingly) @fetcheveryone - follow that for all sorts of updates relating to the site:
twitter.com
Cheers
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Hi. Could notifications be posted on other social media too? e.g. Farcebook. I don't Twit really. Realise that's probably a bit of an ask, as others could ask for every other media channel - hInterGram, Whassap, Eepmail etc.HappyG(rrr)10:17am, 30th Aug 2018
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I posted it there too, but was just hoping to get a few more Twitter followersfetcheveryone10:18am, 30th Aug 2018
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That window was when I got back from my run and hence when garmin would have tried to sync my training data across - so it's not come through. Will it all catch up with itself or do I need to manually import? Thanksclare197610:41am, 30th Aug 2018
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Might be best to export the file from Garmin and then import it here.fetcheveryone10:43am, 30th Aug 2018
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I was at the footy last night - didn't notice a thingbigleggy12:07pm, 30th Aug 2018
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When I looked in the forums for one of my posts and clicked on my profile it said 'user does not exist'! I was having a few palpitations!! Then my son who doesn't even use FE suggested clicking a few other user profiles and they all said the same thing, phew! It did make me get off my ass and finally set up a standing order this morning to a certain account though, nothing like a near death experience to make you appreciate the finer things in life eh?Pikelet12:17pm, 30th Aug 2018
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Lol at near death Pikey. Actually, I think I saw Greppers' or someone's cry of alarums on Farcebook, now I come to think of it Fetch. Cheers,HappyG(rrr) G1:59pm, 30th Aug 2018
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I saw loads of concerned posts on the Facebook page from loads of names I have never seen on this site so assumed they were all imposters...BaronessBL11:24pm, 30th Aug 2018
I'll mention this one in my Fix It Friday blog too, but I thought it deserved a blog of its own.
I'm always conscious about the amount of vertical height that the site uses when viewed on mobiles. Every pixel in the header is a wee bit more scrolling for you to see the bit you came to see.
On top of that, I felt like some of the icons weren't all that clear without the labels that you get on the desktop view - especially the 'cog' symbol for the user profile, and the lightbulb icon for help/feedback.
So snickty, snickty, snick, it was time to trim it down to size, X Men style*. Which is a nice way of saying that I've updated the header, and the icons, as modelled by the legendary Doctor K:
There are some nice little yellow glow highlight effects that happen when you use the icons; the Notifications bell turns red when there's something to be aware of; there's a count button on the envelope when you've got fmail; and the site logo is minimised to a little 'FE' symbol (or 'FE!' for voluntary subscribers).
NB the 'Logout' button is now in the menu.
Still open to a few changes, so shout out if you've got any queries.
What do you mean, you've got a great big ad when you view it? Take out a voluntary subscription to support the site, and you can turn ads off. Details here: fetcheveryone.com/invite.php
*Should I call you Logan, Weapon X?
I'm always conscious about the amount of vertical height that the site uses when viewed on mobiles. Every pixel in the header is a wee bit more scrolling for you to see the bit you came to see.
On top of that, I felt like some of the icons weren't all that clear without the labels that you get on the desktop view - especially the 'cog' symbol for the user profile, and the lightbulb icon for help/feedback.
So snickty, snickty, snick, it was time to trim it down to size, X Men style*. Which is a nice way of saying that I've updated the header, and the icons, as modelled by the legendary Doctor K:
There are some nice little yellow glow highlight effects that happen when you use the icons; the Notifications bell turns red when there's something to be aware of; there's a count button on the envelope when you've got fmail; and the site logo is minimised to a little 'FE' symbol (or 'FE!' for voluntary subscribers).
NB the 'Logout' button is now in the menu.
Still open to a few changes, so shout out if you've got any queries.
What do you mean, you've got a great big ad when you view it? Take out a voluntary subscription to support the site, and you can turn ads off. Details here: fetcheveryone.com/invite.php
*Should I call you Logan, Weapon X?
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The main thing for me is removing that ******* logout button - it was much too near the navigation before and too easy to click by accident. I'll see how many times I accidentally log myself out on the new layout.McGoohan1:50pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Looks good!Sigh1:50pm, 29th Aug 2018
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I likeDiogenes1:53pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Tidy 😊megster3:42pm, 29th Aug 2018
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👍flanker3:43pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Looks good (modern and fresh)!FergusG3:55pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Hope you've kept some improvements back for Feedback Friday though! #peakedtosoon?FergusG3:56pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Like an edit button for folks that typed 'to' instead of 'too'.FergusG3:57pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Have we lost the greeting at the top though? That would be a shame! The red notification seems a bit hard to see on my iPhone screen, could be a bit easier to make out against the black background?fleecy4:18pm, 29th Aug 2018
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@Fleecy - the greeting hasn't been on the mobile version for several years now, and is still available on the desktop. When you say the red notification, do you mean the bell symbol itself? Or the stuff that pops up when you click it?fetcheveryone4:20pm, 29th Aug 2018
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I've never accidentally logged myself outLazyDaisy5:36pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Ah, now I know what everyone's talking about - I rarely view it on a mobile.alpenrose6:02pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Looking good! ☺Ness6:17pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Well that was a shock..... But I think I'll get to like itDocM6:17pm, 29th Aug 2018
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I like it!LindsD6:35pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Could you please maybe do a quick add training?Serendippily7:11pm, 29th Aug 2018
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I approve. It’s got it where it counts 😉runnerbean7:14pm, 29th Aug 2018
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*like*northernslowcoach7:43pm, 29th Aug 2018
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What’s happened to the app? It constantly tells me there’s poor signal (despite having 4G and WiFi available). Is it broken?Angus Clydesdale9:25pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Looks much better, but I miss the shortcutsStuH
It was always the way I navigated to my log. Going menu>train>training log always hangs for ages on the top "train" page, loading the graphs. (Sorry, should have sent feedback on that before now!)9:44pm, 29th Aug 2018 -
Looks great. Was drawn straight here to your blog by the new icon.Nightjar9:47pm, 29th Aug 2018
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You could go further? Next line says “Blogs +” for the nav, then 2 lines further says “fetcheveryone blog”. Could they be consolidated?Nightjar9:52pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Usually I am unsettled by site changes but this one feels right.halfpint11:03pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Oh yeah, doh fetch, I did know that but for some reason I thought the greetings were going from the desktop site! I meant the red icon showing there are notifications, but I just saw it again and it wasn’t too bad in this light, I think I’m used to a shiny red beacon thoughfleecy11:10pm, 29th Aug 2018
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Another one who hated the log out button. New appearance is good. Thanks!Derby Tup7:26am, 30th Aug 2018
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Would be good to have the add stuff quickly shortcut back. Other than that, I like it.SPR8:16am, 30th Aug 2018
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Sorry meant shortcuts link to go straight to training log, buddies, etc.SPR8:17am, 30th Aug 2018
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Thanks for adding the shortcuts back into this, was going to drop you a line but you beat me to it!rhb8:52am, 31st Aug 2018
More bug fixes and tinkerings to report this week:
0) Let's get this out of the way first. I've cut the bliddy hedge My nephew is an apprentice bricklayer, and we're just waiting until he's had enough practice before we ask him to make us a garden wall instead. The Mexicans will not be asked to pay for it.
1) I did a bit more tidying up of the race listings, moving all the cogs out of the individual buttons, and replacing them all with a single edit button. Neater/shorter on mobile:
2) Begun fixing an issue with TCX files from Fitbit, with helpful reports from DavidGould. When the watch is paused, the file pushes the accrued distance back to zero, which is having some weird effects on various graphs. Getting there with sorting it.
3) Westmoors has a Garmin where you can set the session to 'Cardio' for gym stuff - but it was importing as 'Running - General'. She sent me the FIT file, and I've sorted it so that it now comes in as Cross-Training > Other. If you have similar issues with activities arriving as the wrong thing, drop me a feedback ('Help' link at the top of every page, or 'Contact Us' link at the bottom of every page) and we'll get it sorted.
4) I also tidied up the import FIT, TCX and GPX import pages, to remove some of the very old text, and also to squeeze some Google ads on to them. Annoying? Try becoming a voluntary subscriber and you can turn them ALL off
5) If it's your birthday (hi Nightjar) you should get some balloons and cake in the site header. Just for fun.
6) Chunkywizard noticed that we'd not automatically listed the very lovely Dinton Pastures parkrun, despite them being several weeks in. I checked, and our import of parkrun events was broken. Before, I could pull in all the events with one request - but now it looks like it's been paginated. The result was that I was only getting the first 100 parkruns from their database :-/ Not sure how long that's been going on, but it should be sorted now, and Dinton P is proudly listed.
7) Who Squares Wins. Previously, if you upload a ride then changed it to a run, it wouldn't correct your score. Changing category of a run/ride in your training log should change your points score in WSW within ten minutes.
8) Pre-Race Mileage Graph (the one you can see on the home page) is now customisable - you can choose the number of weeks to include in the build up (from 1 to 26); and you can pick your best performances based on WAVA as well as time. Whilst I'm at it, see my previous blog, which shows a variation of this graph which shows all the participants for a given race.
That's your lot for this week. Do keep sending in your requests for fixes - it's fun building up the list over the course of the week, and I do genuinely enjoy fixing stuff and making the site better.
One last thing - if you'd like to help spread the word about Fetch e.g. on your club website, or if you're a PT, or just have a presence on the web, I've put together some code snippets that you can copy-paste into your websites. Here they are: fetcheveryone.com/refer.php
Toodles!
0) Let's get this out of the way first. I've cut the bliddy hedge
My nephew is an apprentice bricklayer, and we're just waiting until he's had enough practice before we ask him to make us a garden wall instead. The Mexicans will not be asked to pay for it. 1) I did a bit more tidying up of the race listings, moving all the cogs out of the individual buttons, and replacing them all with a single edit button. Neater/shorter on mobile:
2) Begun fixing an issue with TCX files from Fitbit, with helpful reports from DavidGould. When the watch is paused, the file pushes the accrued distance back to zero, which is having some weird effects on various graphs. Getting there with sorting it.
3) Westmoors has a Garmin where you can set the session to 'Cardio' for gym stuff - but it was importing as 'Running - General'. She sent me the FIT file, and I've sorted it so that it now comes in as Cross-Training > Other. If you have similar issues with activities arriving as the wrong thing, drop me a feedback ('Help' link at the top of every page, or 'Contact Us' link at the bottom of every page) and we'll get it sorted.
4) I also tidied up the import FIT, TCX and GPX import pages, to remove some of the very old text, and also to squeeze some Google ads on to them. Annoying? Try becoming a voluntary subscriber and you can turn them ALL off
5) If it's your birthday (hi Nightjar) you should get some balloons and cake in the site header. Just for fun.
6) Chunkywizard noticed that we'd not automatically listed the very lovely Dinton Pastures parkrun, despite them being several weeks in. I checked, and our import of parkrun events was broken. Before, I could pull in all the events with one request - but now it looks like it's been paginated. The result was that I was only getting the first 100 parkruns from their database :-/ Not sure how long that's been going on, but it should be sorted now, and Dinton P is proudly listed.
7) Who Squares Wins. Previously, if you upload a ride then changed it to a run, it wouldn't correct your score. Changing category of a run/ride in your training log should change your points score in WSW within ten minutes.
8) Pre-Race Mileage Graph (the one you can see on the home page) is now customisable - you can choose the number of weeks to include in the build up (from 1 to 26); and you can pick your best performances based on WAVA as well as time. Whilst I'm at it, see my previous blog, which shows a variation of this graph which shows all the participants for a given race.
That's your lot for this week. Do keep sending in your requests for fixes - it's fun building up the list over the course of the week, and I do genuinely enjoy fixing stuff and making the site better.
One last thing - if you'd like to help spread the word about Fetch e.g. on your club website, or if you're a PT, or just have a presence on the web, I've put together some code snippets that you can copy-paste into your websites. Here they are: fetcheveryone.com/refer.php
Toodles!
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ThanksLindsD Can we have the same as 7. for Conquercise, please? Although if you fix my 3. issue, I won't need it. I'll send you feedback about that. You rock.12:09pm, 24th Aug 2018
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Actually, I'm not sending feedback as I've realised I'm a numpty. But please can we still have the same as 7. for Conquercise?LindsD12:12pm, 24th Aug 2018
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I owe you a rowing file as I had the same issue (3) as Westmoors for that and other non-running training coming in from Connect.sallykate12:19pm, 24th Aug 2018
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Thanjs, especially for sorting the WSW bit.DocM
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have you had a chance to look at the training log not dumping planned sessions?mikep12:30pm, 24th Aug 2018
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Thanks for all the brilliant fixes and the general site maintenance.Ness12:32pm, 24th Aug 2018
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Number 5! ace!MazH12:37pm, 24th Aug 2018
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You are a busy person. We'll done on the hedge.Helegant12:43pm, 24th Aug 2018
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+1 for mikep and his persistent request!!larkim Is it just me that is surprised that this doesn't appear to bother anyone else?12:45pm, 24th Aug 2018
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mike and larkim - this seems to have worked for some, but not others. Plan entries appear in the log in italics, but if you go into them and edit, they lose the italics, and become 'ordinary' entries. The auto-delete will only clear the unedited italicised ones. Can you confirm whether you're seeing persistent italicised entries?fetcheveryone12:47pm, 24th Aug 2018
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I can confirm that #3 worked. My cardio imported as Cross Training > Other on Wednesday.westmoors12:49pm, 24th Aug 2018
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The WSW thing - how far back does it look? Could someone load, say, a square grabbing bike ride, then alter it the next day to increase the points?McGoohan1:44pm, 24th Aug 2018
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So I'm going to repeat my long-standing request that Saturday be allowed as a week starting date (cos when training my week officially starts with the sunday run but I sometimes bump it up a day).jdawayinamanger1:44pm, 24th Aug 2018
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or do you *have* to change it within 10 minutes if you want to change it at all?McGoohan1:45pm, 24th Aug 2018
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you're the best! Thanks for the fixeschunkywizard1:52pm, 24th Aug 2018
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Could we have it so that deleting a run removes the scores from WSW, just for when people "accidentally" upload a run multiple times and then delete the superfluous ones. (That isn't aimed at anyone apart from myself, before anyone gets the 'ump :-))flanker1:56pm, 24th Aug 2018
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That’s already the case flanker.fetcheveryone2:10pm, 24th Aug 2018
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It is? Brilliant. I can stop feeling guilty every time I screw upflanker2:12pm, 24th Aug 2018
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I was supposed to send you a file for 3. above too, but totally failed to. Sorry. Well done Westmoors. I may go to the gym now *just* to test your import comes in as cross training, not as Running. My Garmin activity is called Strength. Another is called Yoga. Hopefully your fix will cope with those too? They're all "Not Running".HappyG(rrr) G2:41pm, 24th Aug 2018
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Saw the cake and (environmentally friendly) balloons first thing! Thanks. I also saw the help button immediately after my feedback sent - I swear it wasn’t there before 🤪 Nice work.Nightjar2:47pm, 24th Aug 2018
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Thanks for the fixes.mole-thing
Entirely unimportant, but I'd like the Fetch WAVA calculator to work both ways. At the moment I can put in a time and find what WAVA that gives me, but it would be nice to enter a target WAVA and see what time I'd need to hit it.3:43pm, 24th Aug 2018 -
Would this do what you want mole-thing?Flatlander
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Pretty much, thanks Flatlander, although there are odd occasions when I'd like to know times for non-integer WAVAs. I can always work them out though.mole-thing4:10pm, 24th Aug 2018
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You can currently do that if it’s not within 10 days of the event. That was put in place to avoid dodgy betting scandals - a long time ago when betting was the only game in town.fetcheveryone6:15pm, 24th Aug 2018
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Thanks Fetch, this explains why I couldn’t find Armley parkrunnorthernslowcoach10:31pm, 24th Aug 2018
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Another confirmation that #3 is working. Like Westmoors my Garmin "Strength" workout came in as Cross Training - Other, not a 1 hour, 0 mile run. Which is perfect. Thanks.HappyG(rrr) G4:31pm, 29th Aug 2018
Today I've been working on something that's really quite fascinating to look at. Here's an example (no surprise, it's my Abingdon training):
fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace-group.php?rid=1968917
(You can find a link to the equivalent on every applicable race listing)
It shows a bunch of runners who are doing the race, and their accumulation of training miles. If it's a busy race like VMLM, it will trim that bunch down to show about 10-12 runners. If it's a race that you are doing, those runners will be picked based on their proximity to your predicted time - so you can see what they're doing, and maybe chat to them or summat. If it's not a race that you're doing, then it'll pick the speedy runners, so you can marvel at their exploits.
To be shown on the graph, you need to have done the following:
1) added the race to your portfolio, along with either a prediction or an outcome (or both).
2) done some running
3) adjusted your share settings so that you're sharing "stats" or more. There's a link to the share settings on the page itself.
In a way, the main thing it shows is the diversity in approach and circumstance. You can see people who do an absolute tonne of mileage and not run especially fast on the day; conversely people who record few miles in training but can just churn out something amazing; you can spot tapers, long runs, and a flatlining training plan.
I hope you like it Leave me a comment, fool.
fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace-group.php?rid=1968917
(You can find a link to the equivalent on every applicable race listing)
It shows a bunch of runners who are doing the race, and their accumulation of training miles. If it's a busy race like VMLM, it will trim that bunch down to show about 10-12 runners. If it's a race that you are doing, those runners will be picked based on their proximity to your predicted time - so you can see what they're doing, and maybe chat to them or summat. If it's not a race that you're doing, then it'll pick the speedy runners, so you can marvel at their exploits.
To be shown on the graph, you need to have done the following:
1) added the race to your portfolio, along with either a prediction or an outcome (or both).
2) done some running
3) adjusted your share settings so that you're sharing "stats" or more. There's a link to the share settings on the page itself.
In a way, the main thing it shows is the diversity in approach and circumstance. You can see people who do an absolute tonne of mileage and not run especially fast on the day; conversely people who record few miles in training but can just churn out something amazing; you can spot tapers, long runs, and a flatlining training plan.
I hope you like it
Leave me a comment, fool.
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Nice graph. I've just added an optimistic predicton for Abingdon. Don't be tempted to bet on me!mole-thing5:26pm, 23rd Aug 2018
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You've certainly got the miles on your side, molersfetcheveryone5:29pm, 23rd Aug 2018
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I was just about to comment on mole-thing's mileageStuH5:30pm, 23rd Aug 2018
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Thanks. Let's hope they all work. Good luck with your training.mole-thing5:34pm, 23rd Aug 2018
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Well I dont feel at all under pressure now for the Bedford half eeeekDocM6:02pm, 23rd Aug 2018
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Excess miles with no particular plan: hang on, that IS my plan!fleecy8:26pm, 23rd Aug 2018
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Exciting! I shall enjoy this stalking featureVelociraptor
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Has Mr T hacked your blog as you had almost finished it?_andy
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Ooh something else I can waste time studying. Love itwestmoors9:17am, 24th Aug 2018
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That graph scares me...it very much looks like my training is slowing down rather than ramping up.Running Beer11:08am, 24th Aug 2018
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Your gradient in recent weeks is similar to minefetcheveryone11:16am, 24th Aug 2018
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The best attempts at distance graph is a lot more reassuring. I am glad to see I am going further and faster than the last two attempts at this madness. I was panicking a bit earlier this week but I need to remember that there are still 8 weeks of training left. I like how the graph nicely shows that there is a long way to go yet with the shorter line that is far ahead of the others.Running Beer11:29am, 24th Aug 2018
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Is this going to be called the Joey Tribiani feature?McGoohan11:58am, 24th Aug 2018
The reach of bigleggy's sunflower competition should not be underestimated I have a bag full of severed heads, ready to farm the petals (for Silvershadow) and the seeds (either for eating, or for next year's crop / guerrilla planting). And whilst accompanying the boy to footie practice yesterday evening, I also got chatting to the grandad of one of the players - I gave him a tump of sunflower seeds, and he's bringing me some spinach seeds next week in return; and has given me useful advice on planting garlic
I have a bag full of severed heads, ready to farm the petals (for Silvershadow) and the seeds (either for eating, or for next year's crop / guerrilla planting). And whilst accompanying the boy to footie practice yesterday evening, I also got chatting to the grandad of one of the players - I gave him a tump of sunflower seeds, and he's bringing me some spinach seeds next week in return; and has given me useful advice on planting garlic
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A tump?Maclennane3:01pm, 22nd Aug 2018
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Yes. A big tump.fetcheveryone3:04pm, 22nd Aug 2018
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I've almost been *inspired* to attempt to make yarn dye out of my sunflower petals, but am working hard at reminding myself why I leave dyeing to other people.Velociraptor3:16pm, 22nd Aug 2018
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please can you pass on the garlic planting advice? pretty please?D23:26pm, 22nd Aug 2018
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@D2 - it was pretty straightforward actually - he just buys cloves from Lidl, breaks them up, and plants them about an inch deep, surrounded by a bit of seed compost to get it going. Sometimes the resultant bulbs are quite small, but he seemed to be claiming reasonable success overall. I'll be trying itfetcheveryone3:41pm, 22nd Aug 2018
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Don't eat them - especially if you've used any kind of slug pellets or pest control. Also, take em out of the bag or they'll end up mouldy. Take it from one who know. Remove as much foliage as you can from the seed head and get the seeds out as soon as you can. Dry them out for a bit on a tray and then they should be good to store.bigleggy3:52pm, 22nd Aug 2018
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I didn't use any pest control, but I did give them some plant food. Does that render them inedible?fetcheveryone3:54pm, 22nd Aug 2018
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And keep them (sunflowers) indoors until established in little pots! The mice (I think) dug up every single sunflower I had planted outdoors.3M
Garlic from Lidl grows even up here in Yorkshire. Just don't plan on having extra large bulbs of it around the place!4:04pm, 22nd Aug 2018 -
Hmm on garlic growing tips... usual disclaimer but...... the garlic you can buy in the supermarket may well have been originally grown in a country with a different climate to ours. There are two main types of garlic, one for autumn planting and one for spring I would hate you to waste time and energy on planting the wrong one. Its easy to buy bulbs that will work well in your garden........ sorry to be a kill joy.D24:34pm, 22nd Aug 2018
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No probs D2. I have absolutely zero gardening knowledge, so it's all new information to mefetcheveryone4:39pm, 22nd Aug 2018
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Word of the day -tump 😂😂😂runnerbean4:53pm, 22nd Aug 2018
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Garlic and sunflower. Is it a shampoo range or the latest superfood? I sense a marketing opportunity here.Helegant5:19pm, 22nd Aug 2018
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Our street is doing a pumpkin competition this year. It has made up for my DNF in the sunflower competitionNDWDave5:50pm, 22nd Aug 2018
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😊 thank you re the petals.Silvershadow9:25pm, 22nd Aug 2018
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It's all gone a bit Howard and Hilda.flanker12:03am, 23rd Aug 2018
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For the garlic growing (in NZ, which is wetter than you...), I've had limited success in the past due to the cloves rotting in the winter, but this year am doing it in large pots/buckets and so it looks much more promising.Jenelopy4:03am, 23rd Aug 2018
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Oh, and you can check if the garlic is viable before you plant. I separated the cloves and put them in an old yogurt pot in a few mm of gavel and about 5mm of water. After a week they had sprouted, so I carefully planted them. There are youtube videos!Jenelopy4:05am, 23rd Aug 2018
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I fancy trying elephant garlic but unfortunately can't get it in Lidl: thegarlicfarm.co.uksallykate10:42am, 23rd Aug 2018
I don't have a huge amount to report this week. I think I spent a fair bit of time sorting out the 'Pre-Race Mileage Graph' (see previous blog); and Katie and I took advantage of our youngest both being away to sneak off for an overnight stay at our honeymoon hotel:-) We are back now, and both feel as well-fed as pheasants on the day before the shooting season!
But despite that, I still have a few fixes to report. Last week, I spoke about how I was focusing on site speed, and I've continued along those lines this week...
1) Your 'recent training' is used in various places around the site, not just in your training log. You can see it on your home page, on the training home page, and on your user profile. Every time one of these pages is requested, the information is either retrieved from the database, or pulled out of a cache. With a few hopefully-unnoticeable amendments, all requests for this type of data now come from the same cache - so it should help with the efficiency of all these page requests, and also free up a bit of space in our virtual supermarket. And it was doing this work that led me to put together the 'Pre-Race Mileage' graph, so it was doubly useful.
2) But one of the slowest-and-busiest pages on the site is the 'Your Log' page. The one that has all the monthly totals at the top, and then a list of matching entries down below it. I take two measurements to help me assess how a page is performing - median (because average can be skewed by a bad half hour); and 90th percentile (i.e. time taken to process 90% of all requests, aka 'P90'). Before any work was done, the median time for rendering this page on the server was 0.93 seconds; and P90 was up on 4.96 seconds. For comparison, the home page has a median of 0.1s, and P90 is 0.62 seconds.
These timings are just the server activity, so on top of that you should add: (i) time taken for request to reach server across the internet; (ii) time taken for response to travel back across internet; and (iii) time taken for browser to piece together that response into a page. But all of those are somewhat outside my hands. At least for now
Through some of the caching mentioned in (1), and removing some unnecessary queries, I've managed to bring the median for the training page down to 0.74s, and P90 down to 2.87s. Still slower than the home page, but given the large amount of data on the page, it's a good step forward.
3) And finally, our race listings are a popular starting point for folks who find us through Google. I was conscious that they could do with a bit of tidying up, especially for mobile users. On the left, is what a non-logged-in user used to see on typical mobile width, and on the right is the tidied-up version, with more info available without scrolling, and hopefully a bit neater.
That's it for this week - but do keep your feedback requests coming in
But despite that, I still have a few fixes to report. Last week, I spoke about how I was focusing on site speed, and I've continued along those lines this week...
1) Your 'recent training' is used in various places around the site, not just in your training log. You can see it on your home page, on the training home page, and on your user profile. Every time one of these pages is requested, the information is either retrieved from the database, or pulled out of a cache. With a few hopefully-unnoticeable amendments, all requests for this type of data now come from the same cache - so it should help with the efficiency of all these page requests, and also free up a bit of space in our virtual supermarket. And it was doing this work that led me to put together the 'Pre-Race Mileage' graph, so it was doubly useful.
2) But one of the slowest-and-busiest pages on the site is the 'Your Log' page. The one that has all the monthly totals at the top, and then a list of matching entries down below it. I take two measurements to help me assess how a page is performing - median (because average can be skewed by a bad half hour); and 90th percentile (i.e. time taken to process 90% of all requests, aka 'P90'). Before any work was done, the median time for rendering this page on the server was 0.93 seconds; and P90 was up on 4.96 seconds. For comparison, the home page has a median of 0.1s, and P90 is 0.62 seconds.
These timings are just the server activity, so on top of that you should add: (i) time taken for request to reach server across the internet; (ii) time taken for response to travel back across internet; and (iii) time taken for browser to piece together that response into a page. But all of those are somewhat outside my hands. At least for now
Through some of the caching mentioned in (1), and removing some unnecessary queries, I've managed to bring the median for the training page down to 0.74s, and P90 down to 2.87s. Still slower than the home page, but given the large amount of data on the page, it's a good step forward.
3) And finally, our race listings are a popular starting point for folks who find us through Google. I was conscious that they could do with a bit of tidying up, especially for mobile users. On the left, is what a non-logged-in user used to see on typical mobile width, and on the right is the tidied-up version, with more info available without scrolling, and hopefully a bit neater.
That's it for this week - but do keep your feedback requests coming in
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Thanks for the updates - and the enhancementsum
- any news or plans on aka 'P90&apos in text?
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I'm quite interested in the curated videos of MarsMcGoohan3:52pm, 17th Aug 2018
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As per um, I'm expecting topiary news...Dooogs4:24pm, 17th Aug 2018
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4) The hedge has been given a Lionel Blaircut.fetcheveryone4:39pm, 17th Aug 2018
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Good work fetch.NDWDave5:04pm, 17th Aug 2018
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Thank you.Helegant5:15pm, 17th Aug 2018
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The clear out of runs entered in a training plan from the training log does not yet seem to be working. I really like the graph of activity leading up to a run ...but would it be possible to have specify the number of weeks (rather than a set 26) this would make the analysis of a 16 week mara training plan a doddle. Have a good weekend.mikep5:17pm, 17th Aug 2018
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Thanks for this Fetch!roberton
I’d like to put a vote in for getting badges working again! If that’s hard then a message that new badges are temporarily disabled might be friendly6:37pm, 17th Aug 2018 -
Those apostrophes need a bit of a sort out. That's something for next weekOranj8:17pm, 17th Aug 2018
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nice work on the page times. race screen look much tidier too.Nightjar11:34am, 19th Aug 2018
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ps thought about open sourcing (or fetch sourcing)?Nightjar11:35am, 19th Aug 2018
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I was also wondering about open-sourcing... hard to contemplate relinquishing (some) control, thoughishep4:34pm, 21st Aug 2018
Here's some good fun
It occurred to me that my marathon training mileage is looking pretty decent in comparison to previous attempts - so I thought I'd make a graph that illustrates it.
This graph will show you your five best marathon attempts, and the 26 weeks of mileage that preceded them:
fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=26.2&unit=miles
Not done a marathon? No probs, the same page will do the same for the shorter distances:
20mi: fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=20&unit=miles
Half: fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=13.1&unit=miles
10mi: fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=10&unit=miles
10km: fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=10&unit=km
5mi: fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=5&unit=miles
5km: fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=5&unit=km
Note that in order to see what the fudge I'm talking about, you need to have (a) some races in your Race Portfolio, and (b) some training in your training log. But you've done that already, right?
Let me know what you think.
It occurred to me that my marathon training mileage is looking pretty decent in comparison to previous attempts - so I thought I'd make a graph that illustrates it.
This graph will show you your five best marathon attempts, and the 26 weeks of mileage that preceded them:
fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=26.2&unit=miles
Not done a marathon? No probs, the same page will do the same for the shorter distances:
20mi: fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=20&unit=miles
Half: fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=13.1&unit=miles
10mi: fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=10&unit=miles
10km: fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=10&unit=km
5mi: fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=5&unit=miles
5km: fetcheveryone.com/training-prerace.php?distance=5&unit=km
Note that in order to see what the fudge I'm talking about, you need to have (a) some races in your Race Portfolio, and (b) some training in your training log. But you've done that already, right?
Let me know what you think.
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I like it in theory … but I think it might be including everything. I'm pretty sure I didn't run 1486 miles in six months before a half marathon, nor have an average pace of 15:00/mile before another.Dvorak5:37pm, 14th Aug 2018
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I have 3 half marathons planned and they appear all in the graph, so I can only compare with my previous best 2 as it brings it to a total of 5 graphs. There should be a way of discarding certain races, or selecting a target?controversial5:38pm, 14th Aug 2018
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This is brilliant!Velociraptor
Can you separate running mileage out from other mileage? I was scratching my head over how I'd run more than 6,000 miles in the build-up to my third-fastest marathon till I realised that it was the only one on the graph from after I started cycling.
And can you exclude races that are in our portfolios but more than 26 weeks in the future?5:39pm, 14th Aug 2018 -
Filtered it to show just running now...fetcheveryone6:07pm, 14th Aug 2018
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I think it's fabulous! Thank you.LindsD6:37pm, 14th Aug 2018
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My 5 mile graph not showing at all. The black wording box above where the graph should be is there, and the table underneath showing details of the race is there, but just a blank space in-between. The graphs for all the other distances are all there ok.K5 Gus
Future races being included - could you maybe just include one at any distance, and make it the next one, so you still get meaningful comparison with previous ones, ie if you'd entered a series of 5k or 10k races there could be 5 in the future.6:40pm, 14th Aug 2018 -
Thanks! That looks much betterVelociraptor6:53pm, 14th Aug 2018
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Great graph. Thanks.mole-thing7:09pm, 14th Aug 2018
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Clearly some details to be worked on (and are being worked on) but this is really good.roberton
According the graphs I'm going to smash my next half marathon! Higher mileage so far than the previous four, more even (the pause due to an injury shows very clearly for my two slower ones last year) and even the pace is better than usual.7:52pm, 14th Aug 2018 -
That is very good. Shows that I used to run further, more often at s slightly higher pace than now. Even though my WAVAs are now higher...so I know what to do. Good.Ocelot Spleens8:00am, 15th Aug 2018
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Fascinating - best performance at a half with the slowest average training run pace. Good to see that in black and white!Autumnleaves8:41am, 15th Aug 2018
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As with KS Gus, one of my distances (half marathon) is not showing the graph but all the others are fine. And plus 1 for the suggestion on only including 1 future race. Useful and fun, though.FitterStu10:21am, 15th Aug 2018
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FitterStu and K5 Gus - both the same issue (an apostrophe in the race title was messing up the Javascript). Should be fixed now.fetcheveryone12:22pm, 15th Aug 2018
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Update: As a best compromise, only one future race (the most imminent) will be included on the page.fetcheveryone12:31pm, 15th Aug 2018
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No one has mentioned track distances yet, well until now...SPR12:59pm, 15th Aug 2018
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Very interesting, my mileage for my first half mara last year and my next one next month are practically the same.alpenrose5:52pm, 16th Aug 2018
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I like this, but 26 miles is a long build up. Would it be difficult to make that configurable? I've got a nagging feeling I've seen it somewhere else on the site.StuH4:28pm, 17th Aug 2018
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26 miles is long, but I meant 26 weeks!StuH3:24pm, 18th Aug 2018
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According to the graphs, I ran half as much before last night's 10K as I have for my best ones (with predictable results). I had thought as I ran round (I had plenty of time, after all ;-)) of copying the graph and weaving some bloggery around it. However as the race is now past, the exact graph is now unavailable. I wonder if it might still be a work in progress, with a degree of customisation to come?Dvorak
(Of course, as I typed it occurred to me that I could add a race for tomorrow into the portfolio and get much the same graph
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The graph is still available without an upcoming race is it not?StuH3:58pm, 18th Aug 2018
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Yes, but what I want to demonstrate is how lacking my training has been ;-).Dvorak4:20pm, 18th Aug 2018
I've just been given a race entry for the Draycote Water 20. Fancy joining me and Katie for a run and/or post-run social? Follow this thread for more info:
fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=60495&page=1
fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=60495&page=1
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Bear with me...
I *love* a good analogy as a way of understanding something or as a tool to help creative problem solving. At school I remember learning about components of a circuit by comparing them to water flowing through pipes. A resistor is like a thin pipe - less water can flow through it; and a battery is like a water pump, driving electrons around the circuit.
I think that a lot of our learning happens in this way. When facing a new situation, we compare it to our experience, and think (subconsciously sometimes) "this is like that other situation... and I remember how I coped with that". My theory is that this is how our mushy brains perform so well - because all our learning is folded in on itself. We learn to recognise a face is after seeing lots of examples. We learn how to stand up, how to cross the road, how to run through lots of trial and error. In fact, if you'll indulge me, our perception of reality is an analogy. Our eyes, ears, noses, hands etc provide measurements that tell us what is happening, which is *our* reality, but it will never be quite the same as someone else's, nor will it ever accurately reflect every facet of what's out there.
That's the digression out of the way - but there is a point to it all. This week, amongst general bug fixing, I've been looking at optimising the performance of the site, which for non-computer-programmers can be a bit of a black box expressed only in terms of 50p's in meters, or hamsters in wheels (both analogies, see?). But I like you all to have an idea of what's going on, so the analogy I've come up with to help explain is that of a supermarket.
Every time you get hungry for a Fetcheveryone page, you go to the supermarket to retrieve the ingredients to make the page. There are lots of ingredients that go into making up a page. Some are the salt and pepper, common to every page - like whether you're logged in; whether there's fmail/notifications to show you; and whether you're entitled to look at the page in the first place. On top of that there are the specifics. On this page for example, it retrieves my boiled ham of a blog, all the corresponding comments, a list of my other blogs, my user bio, etc.
We can think of every request for a page as a shopper entering the supermarket to gather the ingredients. If there's just one shopper, they have the freedom to run through the aisles at breakneck speed, without worrying about bumping into someone. But in reality, there are lots of shoppers. We've all felt that frustration of visiting a busy supermarket on a Saturday afternoon, when it feels like the local zombie club have decided to send a coach party. Some customers are just picking up a tin of beans, whilst others are teetering around with the ingredients for a banquet. Some know exactly what they are looking for and where to find it. Others are picky eaters, and have to look at the labels on every single item, to make sure it meets their requirements. Just a reminder, those shoppers aren't you, dear Fetchies, but the pages on our website.
For the last week, I've been monitoring the amount of time each page takes to prepare, from the moment your request arrives on our server, to the point where our server has generated the page and is ready to send it back. In our analogy, I am keeping an eye on the number of shoppers, their choice of meals, and how long it takes them to visit the supermarket. There are some very popular meals, like our home page, or forum pages (which all use an identical recipe, just different ingredients). There are others which are less popular, but take an age to collect all the necessary parts for. Improving the experience for all these shoppers is key to success.
And here's where a good analogy is helpful. Supermarkets do all sorts of things that help you to find what you want, like putting all the pasta in one place, and labelling the aisles (even if they sometimes encourage you to spend more time looking round by rearranging things periodically). These are all aspects of good database design. But they have also added new innovations which encourage creative programming. A 'meal for two' brings all the ingredients together in one place for a quick grab. An online favourites list lets you fill your basket really quickly (even if in this case you're not actually visiting the supermarket); and click-and-collect means that someone with the time to wander round on your behalf has pre-grabbed everything you need and stuck it in a locker ready for you to chow down.
You get the idea. Hopefully. On to this week's fix list:
1) I've removed some unnecessary database queries from the home page. Previously, every time you visited, it would retrieve your latest training entries on the fly. Now it stores that info in our virtual click-and-collect, and only puts fresh stuff in when you actually update your training log. Similarly, every visit to the home page was checking the forum data for the best threads to display. Our home page gets about 100,000 visits per month, so that's a lot of repetitive checking. Now that data gets stored in our click-and-collect, and only gets refreshed every few minutes. An increase in customers doesn't cause any more congestion inside the supermarket
2) Likewise with any page in the forum, there's lots of data that doesn't change very often, like the thread description, the associated groups, and the keywords associated with the thread. These were all getting shopped for, every time the page was requested. They're now in the click-and-collect (in computing terms, 'the cache' ), and only get refreshed when they are changed. The forum pages don't take an especially long time to prepare, but they are very popular - so even small improvements per shopper get multiplied into big improvements overall (like reusing your plastic bags - oooh!).
3) I've also cached the pages that show all the fastest times for a specific race (e.g. Bedford Harriers Half Marathon: fetcheveryone.com/race-leaderboard.php?id=1089462 ), as this is an example of a meal that is eaten less often, but is more complex to shop for. Whilst I was there, I also added an interesting little graph that shows the distribution of times for the runners of that race. I'm not sure what it tells us yet (does the slope of the graph have any correlation with difficulty?), but it sure is pretty.
That's enough of the optimisation ones for now. Here are some more treats:
4) When you view our walking league, your position is now highlighted in red. You can thank chunkywizard for requesting that one. Here's the league: fetcheveryone.com/league-walking.php
5) There's now a link from the Who Squares Wins game to the corresponding thread, so you can seamlessly check your score then trash talk your opponent.
6) When viewing the 'Route of the Day' pic on our home page, some users were still seeing the previous day's picture. I think alpenrose was struggling with that one. It should be sorted now.
7) In 'Your Routes', the default category was 'Uncategorised'. For folks who like to put every single route into a category, this meant their first experience of the page was an empty list. It now defaults to 'All'.
8) Our over-50's league now includes track and ultra distances after several requests. And having done that, I've also added more distances to our regular league table.
9) It was noted that when you want to add a price to a race listing, there's a zero that needs deleting before you can enter the price. Likewise, when manually adding training, you had to delete zeros before entering your actual distance, calories etc. All these should now be fixed. A marginal gain, but it ALL helps to make your experience as a user just that little bit smoother.
10) And finally, mikep, Mrbanners, and larkim all asked that the training plan be improved. The sessions you plan drop into your training log in italics, on the day that you're due to do them. You have to remember to delete them, or they stay there forever, looking untidy. There's a new option on the training plan that will automatically delete any old training plan entries every time you log training - so if you'd like to, you can switch this on. I must admit not to having tested this a great deal - so please let me know if it's not working.
And that's your lot for this week. I hope the last entry is a good example of how quickly your feedback can become reality. When the popup for voluntary donations to the site comes up, folks can say "I'd donate if I could spare any cash", or "I want to use the site for free". In practical terms they mean the same thing, but if by sharing my efforts I can encourage you into the former category rather than the latter, I'd call that a win. And if this *is* your month to get behind the site, that'd be great. Pip pip!
I *love* a good analogy as a way of understanding something or as a tool to help creative problem solving. At school I remember learning about components of a circuit by comparing them to water flowing through pipes. A resistor is like a thin pipe - less water can flow through it; and a battery is like a water pump, driving electrons around the circuit.
I think that a lot of our learning happens in this way. When facing a new situation, we compare it to our experience, and think (subconsciously sometimes) "this is like that other situation... and I remember how I coped with that". My theory is that this is how our mushy brains perform so well - because all our learning is folded in on itself. We learn to recognise a face is after seeing lots of examples. We learn how to stand up, how to cross the road, how to run through lots of trial and error. In fact, if you'll indulge me, our perception of reality is an analogy. Our eyes, ears, noses, hands etc provide measurements that tell us what is happening, which is *our* reality, but it will never be quite the same as someone else's, nor will it ever accurately reflect every facet of what's out there.
That's the digression out of the way - but there is a point to it all. This week, amongst general bug fixing, I've been looking at optimising the performance of the site, which for non-computer-programmers can be a bit of a black box expressed only in terms of 50p's in meters, or hamsters in wheels (both analogies, see?). But I like you all to have an idea of what's going on, so the analogy I've come up with to help explain is that of a supermarket.
Every time you get hungry for a Fetcheveryone page, you go to the supermarket to retrieve the ingredients to make the page. There are lots of ingredients that go into making up a page. Some are the salt and pepper, common to every page - like whether you're logged in; whether there's fmail/notifications to show you; and whether you're entitled to look at the page in the first place. On top of that there are the specifics. On this page for example, it retrieves my boiled ham of a blog, all the corresponding comments, a list of my other blogs, my user bio, etc.
We can think of every request for a page as a shopper entering the supermarket to gather the ingredients. If there's just one shopper, they have the freedom to run through the aisles at breakneck speed, without worrying about bumping into someone. But in reality, there are lots of shoppers. We've all felt that frustration of visiting a busy supermarket on a Saturday afternoon, when it feels like the local zombie club have decided to send a coach party. Some customers are just picking up a tin of beans, whilst others are teetering around with the ingredients for a banquet. Some know exactly what they are looking for and where to find it. Others are picky eaters, and have to look at the labels on every single item, to make sure it meets their requirements. Just a reminder, those shoppers aren't you, dear Fetchies, but the pages on our website.
For the last week, I've been monitoring the amount of time each page takes to prepare, from the moment your request arrives on our server, to the point where our server has generated the page and is ready to send it back. In our analogy, I am keeping an eye on the number of shoppers, their choice of meals, and how long it takes them to visit the supermarket. There are some very popular meals, like our home page, or forum pages (which all use an identical recipe, just different ingredients). There are others which are less popular, but take an age to collect all the necessary parts for. Improving the experience for all these shoppers is key to success.
And here's where a good analogy is helpful. Supermarkets do all sorts of things that help you to find what you want, like putting all the pasta in one place, and labelling the aisles (even if they sometimes encourage you to spend more time looking round by rearranging things periodically). These are all aspects of good database design. But they have also added new innovations which encourage creative programming. A 'meal for two' brings all the ingredients together in one place for a quick grab. An online favourites list lets you fill your basket really quickly (even if in this case you're not actually visiting the supermarket); and click-and-collect means that someone with the time to wander round on your behalf has pre-grabbed everything you need and stuck it in a locker ready for you to chow down.
You get the idea. Hopefully. On to this week's fix list:
1) I've removed some unnecessary database queries from the home page. Previously, every time you visited, it would retrieve your latest training entries on the fly. Now it stores that info in our virtual click-and-collect, and only puts fresh stuff in when you actually update your training log. Similarly, every visit to the home page was checking the forum data for the best threads to display. Our home page gets about 100,000 visits per month, so that's a lot of repetitive checking. Now that data gets stored in our click-and-collect, and only gets refreshed every few minutes. An increase in customers doesn't cause any more congestion inside the supermarket
2) Likewise with any page in the forum, there's lots of data that doesn't change very often, like the thread description, the associated groups, and the keywords associated with the thread. These were all getting shopped for, every time the page was requested. They're now in the click-and-collect (in computing terms, 'the cache' ), and only get refreshed when they are changed. The forum pages don't take an especially long time to prepare, but they are very popular - so even small improvements per shopper get multiplied into big improvements overall (like reusing your plastic bags - oooh!).
3) I've also cached the pages that show all the fastest times for a specific race (e.g. Bedford Harriers Half Marathon: fetcheveryone.com/race-leaderboard.php?id=1089462 ), as this is an example of a meal that is eaten less often, but is more complex to shop for. Whilst I was there, I also added an interesting little graph that shows the distribution of times for the runners of that race. I'm not sure what it tells us yet (does the slope of the graph have any correlation with difficulty?), but it sure is pretty.
That's enough of the optimisation ones for now. Here are some more treats:
4) When you view our walking league, your position is now highlighted in red. You can thank chunkywizard for requesting that one. Here's the league: fetcheveryone.com/league-walking.php
5) There's now a link from the Who Squares Wins game to the corresponding thread, so you can seamlessly check your score then trash talk your opponent.
6) When viewing the 'Route of the Day' pic on our home page, some users were still seeing the previous day's picture. I think alpenrose was struggling with that one. It should be sorted now.
7) In 'Your Routes', the default category was 'Uncategorised'. For folks who like to put every single route into a category, this meant their first experience of the page was an empty list. It now defaults to 'All'.
8) Our over-50's league now includes track and ultra distances after several requests. And having done that, I've also added more distances to our regular league table.
9) It was noted that when you want to add a price to a race listing, there's a zero that needs deleting before you can enter the price. Likewise, when manually adding training, you had to delete zeros before entering your actual distance, calories etc. All these should now be fixed. A marginal gain, but it ALL helps to make your experience as a user just that little bit smoother.
10) And finally, mikep, Mrbanners, and larkim all asked that the training plan be improved. The sessions you plan drop into your training log in italics, on the day that you're due to do them. You have to remember to delete them, or they stay there forever, looking untidy. There's a new option on the training plan that will automatically delete any old training plan entries every time you log training - so if you'd like to, you can switch this on. I must admit not to having tested this a great deal - so please let me know if it's not working.
And that's your lot for this week. I hope the last entry is a good example of how quickly your feedback can become reality. When the popup for voluntary donations to the site comes up, folks can say "I'd donate if I could spare any cash", or "I want to use the site for free". In practical terms they mean the same thing, but if by sharing my efforts I can encourage you into the former category rather than the latter, I'd call that a win. And if this *is* your month to get behind the site, that'd be great. Pip pip!
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No 4 is that working ? Or am I missing somethingDocM1:00pm, 10th Aug 2018
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Try now?fetcheveryone1:12pm, 10th Aug 2018
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Some blogs need a 'get your tea before you start reading' icon ... not the length, but the attention needed.um
And as for that well known comuting term (see #2) 'the cache&apos ' - is that one on the list?
The pretty graph on #3 - is y axis the number of finishers? So the lower and end times are packed, but fewer mid time finishers? Or is the y-axis the time?
Good analogy - but remember, like supermarkets, to make sure people go past the brightly labelled things you want to sell.
As ever - many thanks! (I did resist replying BOGOF)1:20pm, 10th Aug 2018 -
Ooh I like no.10 - will try that over the weekendAutumnleaves1:30pm, 10th Aug 2018
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I could only get my head around electronics by comparing it to flowing water tooFragile Do Not Bend
Thanks for the prompt fixes!1:31pm, 10th Aug 2018 -
thank you for no. 10 - I'll turn it on and see how it does tomorrowmikep1:43pm, 10th Aug 2018
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A much more productive week than me! Well done.HappyG(rrr) G1:51pm, 10th Aug 2018
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Agree with Happy - that sounds like more than enough for one week.TeeBee2:57pm, 10th Aug 2018
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Did you do the hedge?Helegant3:05pm, 10th Aug 2018
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I was gonna, but it's all wet now.fetcheveryone3:07pm, 10th Aug 2018
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Put the hedge near the top of the list for next week !um
(but I have the same cba reason for not running this afternoon)3:10pm, 10th Aug 2018 -
Very nice - and this weekly fixit thread is ace.Dooogs
Not sure if this is the place for potential future fixes but I think the badges either aren't updating or are taking more than three weeks to update...4:28pm, 10th Aug 2018 -
sunny day tomorrow, I expect I can do the hedge. Well, I can definitely plug the hedge trimmer in and sit and look longingly at it. *sob*KatieB5:05pm, 10th Aug 2018
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I'm sure, post-op, just a subtle mention or two, should do it?um
If not, we may need to start a hedge thread similar to Dill's hole thread ...5:19pm, 10th Aug 2018 -
um (btw, love the name, my senior once counted the number of times I said um in a consultation, it was lots of times, so I must love it), he has been jolly busy this week, nursing me back to health, cooking and so many trips to Tesco to feed my boys that it’s no surprise he’s had this supermarket analogy day, so I really should stop mentioning the hedge. And I could have done it pre-op but I didn’t.KatieB5:26pm, 10th Aug 2018
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Your Lordship, I regret to advise that the auto clearing hasn't worked....mikep9:34am, 11th Aug 2018
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He should have been given a shopping list for Tesco's, only needed to go once then.alpenrose9:32pm, 11th Aug 2018
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Is there a way to access the walking league from the home page?alpenrose10:29pm, 11th Aug 2018
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Analogy and metaphor are the way to go! I'm reminded of Star Trek TNG series 5episode 2, "Darmok" where the Tamarians have a language that is comprised only of allegorical references._andy
(I did google that, honestly, it wasn't all from memory, although I dare say that some might be able to do that)4:33pm, 13th Aug 2018 -
Finally got around to feeding back on the automatic deleting of training entries - it is tidier, but it would beyond great if it only deleted planned run training when you uploaded a run, rather than as soon as you upload any training????Autumnleaves4:19pm, 22nd Aug 2018
I got a message from _andy saying that he was in the area, and did I fancy a run. So we met up this morning, and I took him on a short route through the mountains of Bedford, before doubling back for a loop round our parkrun course.
fetcheveryone.com/training-log-view.php?id=15274408
It was a lovely way to enjoy five miles, and I can tick yet another Scottish-via-the-west-country Fetchie off my list
If any of you are ever in Bedford and fancy a run, give me a shout
fetcheveryone.com/training-log-view.php?id=15274408
It was a lovely way to enjoy five miles, and I can tick yet another Scottish-via-the-west-country Fetchie off my list
If any of you are ever in Bedford and fancy a run, give me a shout
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*Predicts huge boost to tourism in Bedford*Diogenes11:51am, 8th Aug 2018
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Dvorak I hope you didn't stint on the mountains for him.11:52am, 8th Aug 2018
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I think we need a meet a Fetchies for a run thread !DocM11:53am, 8th Aug 2018
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And glad to read that Katie's op went well, and that post-Brexit I have a handy available food source in the area (bulrushes/ cattails).Dvorak12:04pm, 8th Aug 2018
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Did he introduce himself as 'underscore Andy'?McGoohan12:21pm, 8th Aug 2018
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No, as I recall, he came running across the car park with a big grin and a Fetch topfetcheveryone12:53pm, 8th Aug 2018
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Good idea DocM ...um
I'm open to act as a guide to anyone wanting a run in the New Forest ...
Impressed with the 9 min mile pacing!12:59pm, 8th Aug 2018 -
Completely forgot to take the underscore with me! Thanks for the lovely trails and sunshine me fetch, really appreciated. Buzzing all day with how super duper the world of fetch is_andy5:35pm, 8th Aug 2018
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A top man is _andy.Joopsy9:02am, 9th Aug 2018
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And you survived?!HappyG(rrr) Always lovely to be with, but as a race leading ultra and hill runner, not always easy to keep up with! G9:48am, 9th Aug 2018
I've been sent a Suunto 9 to review, and I've been using it for the last month for the majority of my runs. Just to set the scene, this isn't a paid review, and nor do I get to keep it at the end, so on that basis I can give you an honest opinion. Obviously, I'm keen to maintain a good relationship with Suunto, so it's all going to be polite and constructive
I should also point out that if you're looking for a review on an sub-atomic level, you could try the excellent DC Rainmaker: dcrainmaker.com - but if you'd just like to hear my thoughts, read on.
The watch is priced at £499 (see Suunto website) and in terms of look, it's very similar to previous Suunto's, with a sleek but solid finish. It has the potential to overawe a slender wrist, but it fits ok on my flimsy coder wrists, and it has a prestigious feel to it (for clarity, this from the man who only ever wears jeans, t-shirt and trainers).
Having tried the Suunto Spartan Ultra before (you can pick the Ultra up on Amazon for £350+: amzn.to ), my main interest in trying this new Suunto was the addition of wrist-based heart rate measurement. Chest straps usually end up chafing me, so a good wrist-monitor is a real plus for me.
The HRM is good in the main, but you do need to get the watch positioned right on your wrist (north of the bony bit), and strapped on nice and tight. On several easy runs, I've been alarmed to see the HR reading suggesting that I'm running at 5k pace - and it's usually an indication that I need to tighten the strap by a notch.
The strap feels soft, but the requirement for tightness means that on a hot day (and we've had plenty of those recently), the sweat can collect underneath, and on one occasion I was left with a red rash that lasted for a couple of days. This only happened once though, when I'd left the watch on for a prolonged period. Perhaps a different style of strap might alleviate this issue.
If you wear it continuously, the watch is also able to track your HR throughout the day and night - so it's useful if you'd like to see what your true resting HR is - and the colour displays on the watch demonstrate this nicely. If you take the watch off and leave it on your bedside table, be prepared for periodic green flashing from the HR monitor every so often (and a poke in the ribs from your significant other) as it periodically attempts to assess your HR.
It also tracks your cadence without any external pod - working on the basis that your arms swing back and forward at the same rate that your feet do. It's pretty accurate, with a very rare and brief Billy Whizz spike. On the back of this, it also provides you with a daily step count; although my feeling here is that if you're spending £499 on a running watch, you're probably taking it seriously enough not to be thinking about step count as a motivator.
The battery life is really good. You can sync over Bluetooth, but I usually plug the watch in via the USB cable to sync, so it gets a little top up each time I run - and from a full charge, you can get in excess of 20 hours of battery life in standard mode; and you can adjust the settings to maximise the battery (e.g. by reducing the sampling rate of the GPS) up to 120 hours. In the main then, it feels as though it never runs out. However, I think the sticky-out buttons meant that I occasionally took it out of my rather cramped bag ready to run, and discovered a flat battery. Some sort of low power screaming alarm would be useful - maybe a bluetooth appeal that flashes up on my phone?
In terms of training usefulness, there are modes for all three triathlon disciplines, including a GPS-enabled open water swimming mode, which is really ace (and my gut feeling is that it's more accurate than Katie's Garmin 910XT (£320 on Garmin website), which shows her running aground multiple times during an hour's swim). The default running screen needs a bit of tinkering with - it gives me an overall average for my run, but not a reliable lap pace; however, if you plug it into your computer and go to the Suunto website, you can adjust the fields that are displayed, choosing from a wide variety.
Other useful screens include: one that shows you all your recent laps, so you can review your progress as you go; and a navigation screen that shows you a simple dotted path representing your run so far. This was very useful when I missed a turn whilst running off-road in Devon. And in a nice use of space, your heart rate is shown as a disk tachometer around the edge of the watch face, with delineated zones too.
It wouldn't be a Fetcheveryone review if I didn't refer to the watches ability to sync with our site. Unfortunately it's not as straightforward as Garmin (which sends to Fetch automatically if you ask it to), but when you sync to the Suunto site, it's just a couple of clicks from there to download a FIT file in your browser, which can then be uploaded to Fetch with a few more clicks. Not too bad for me personally, but it's an entirely manual process, so be prepared for this if you're considering one. Suunto - if you're reading this, do get in touch and let's sort something better out.
If you're looking at other watches in this price range, I would recommend considering this - but you might find that with a little compromise, you could find many of the useful features elsewhere for less money. Overall, I'll be sad to see it go, as the watch really is the first one I've tried that has ticked pretty much every box for me, it looks pretty cool, and it feels like it'll go on for ever.
I should also point out that if you're looking for a review on an sub-atomic level, you could try the excellent DC Rainmaker: dcrainmaker.com - but if you'd just like to hear my thoughts, read on.
The watch is priced at £499 (see Suunto website) and in terms of look, it's very similar to previous Suunto's, with a sleek but solid finish. It has the potential to overawe a slender wrist, but it fits ok on my flimsy coder wrists, and it has a prestigious feel to it (for clarity, this from the man who only ever wears jeans, t-shirt and trainers).
Having tried the Suunto Spartan Ultra before (you can pick the Ultra up on Amazon for £350+: amzn.to ), my main interest in trying this new Suunto was the addition of wrist-based heart rate measurement. Chest straps usually end up chafing me, so a good wrist-monitor is a real plus for me.
The HRM is good in the main, but you do need to get the watch positioned right on your wrist (north of the bony bit), and strapped on nice and tight. On several easy runs, I've been alarmed to see the HR reading suggesting that I'm running at 5k pace - and it's usually an indication that I need to tighten the strap by a notch.
The strap feels soft, but the requirement for tightness means that on a hot day (and we've had plenty of those recently), the sweat can collect underneath, and on one occasion I was left with a red rash that lasted for a couple of days. This only happened once though, when I'd left the watch on for a prolonged period. Perhaps a different style of strap might alleviate this issue.
If you wear it continuously, the watch is also able to track your HR throughout the day and night - so it's useful if you'd like to see what your true resting HR is - and the colour displays on the watch demonstrate this nicely. If you take the watch off and leave it on your bedside table, be prepared for periodic green flashing from the HR monitor every so often (and a poke in the ribs from your significant other) as it periodically attempts to assess your HR.
It also tracks your cadence without any external pod - working on the basis that your arms swing back and forward at the same rate that your feet do. It's pretty accurate, with a very rare and brief Billy Whizz spike. On the back of this, it also provides you with a daily step count; although my feeling here is that if you're spending £499 on a running watch, you're probably taking it seriously enough not to be thinking about step count as a motivator.
The battery life is really good. You can sync over Bluetooth, but I usually plug the watch in via the USB cable to sync, so it gets a little top up each time I run - and from a full charge, you can get in excess of 20 hours of battery life in standard mode; and you can adjust the settings to maximise the battery (e.g. by reducing the sampling rate of the GPS) up to 120 hours. In the main then, it feels as though it never runs out. However, I think the sticky-out buttons meant that I occasionally took it out of my rather cramped bag ready to run, and discovered a flat battery. Some sort of low power screaming alarm would be useful - maybe a bluetooth appeal that flashes up on my phone?
In terms of training usefulness, there are modes for all three triathlon disciplines, including a GPS-enabled open water swimming mode, which is really ace (and my gut feeling is that it's more accurate than Katie's Garmin 910XT (£320 on Garmin website), which shows her running aground multiple times during an hour's swim). The default running screen needs a bit of tinkering with - it gives me an overall average for my run, but not a reliable lap pace; however, if you plug it into your computer and go to the Suunto website, you can adjust the fields that are displayed, choosing from a wide variety.
Other useful screens include: one that shows you all your recent laps, so you can review your progress as you go; and a navigation screen that shows you a simple dotted path representing your run so far. This was very useful when I missed a turn whilst running off-road in Devon. And in a nice use of space, your heart rate is shown as a disk tachometer around the edge of the watch face, with delineated zones too.
It wouldn't be a Fetcheveryone review if I didn't refer to the watches ability to sync with our site. Unfortunately it's not as straightforward as Garmin (which sends to Fetch automatically if you ask it to), but when you sync to the Suunto site, it's just a couple of clicks from there to download a FIT file in your browser, which can then be uploaded to Fetch with a few more clicks. Not too bad for me personally, but it's an entirely manual process, so be prepared for this if you're considering one. Suunto - if you're reading this, do get in touch and let's sort something better out.
If you're looking at other watches in this price range, I would recommend considering this - but you might find that with a little compromise, you could find many of the useful features elsewhere for less money. Overall, I'll be sad to see it go, as the watch really is the first one I've tried that has ticked pretty much every box for me, it looks pretty cool, and it feels like it'll go on for ever.
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Does it tell the time?!Waveydavey5:16pm, 7th Aug 2018
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I’ve left out some of the more obvious features, such as it’s ability to tell the time, and the fact that it is not made out of jelly.fetcheveryone5:30pm, 7th Aug 2018
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Great review boss.GlennR8:13pm, 7th Aug 2018
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Ahem don’t know if you remember but atrain wrote you something so it would upload to fetch automatically by writing it into your downloads first. But I think he’s dumped it all after you disabled it.Serendippily
stravagrabs off suunto site so I think he keeps his training there now10:00pm, 7th Aug 2018 -
I think it was atrain that wrote something that uploaded Suunto files via our API. But I don’t recall disabling anythingfetcheveryone10:11pm, 7th Aug 2018
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And I don’t believe that would work if the user synced Suunto over Bluetooth. Also,fetcheveryone
stravahave their links on parkrun profiles, but when I asked, this is because they have ‘partnered’. I’m not sure I have that sort of money knocking round :-/10:15pm, 7th Aug 2018 -
Have you tried the Spartan Trainer HR?Raetomic Kitten
I upgraded from the Ambit 3 to one back in May and after a few teething issues with bluetooth notifications it's awesome and I love it. A fair bit cheaper than the 9, as well.8:08am, 8th Aug 2018 -
Can we please arrange a mass picket of Suunto's headquarters? I love my Ambit 2, but Movescount and the uploading speed are woeful.Maclennane9:25am, 8th Aug 2018
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I’ve not felt like the site or upload speed are a problem, but would just love to offer the Fetchies a chance to sync more easily.fetcheveryone10:29am, 8th Aug 2018
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Tapiriik? Or is it that something pushed from suunto to garmin by tapiriik will not than auto-push to fetch?NordRunner9:31pm, 13th Aug 2018
It's Fix It Friday, which means that I tell you about all the stuff that I've fixed this week, and encourage you to report any problems on the site. First up, it gives you a chance to take a look at what I've fixed; secondly, it's nice to show you that I'm working hard to maintain and improve the site; and thirdly I hope it shows you how the flexible the site is, and encourages you to get involved with shaping its future direction. The success of the site is entirely down to the community of people that use it.
This week, the list is a bit light because I have a week in Wales with The Boy - but I've still had the opportunity to sort out a few issues:
1) When people add race listings they often miss out the http/s bit at the start. This results in a broken link on the race listing. I've adjusted the code to add this where possible.
2) New joiners to Who Squares Wins were getting dumped in the Atlantic just off the coast of Africa (lat=0,lng=0). The browser now attempts to grab the location of the user, to show them a map of their local area.
3) Several requests for this one. If you're adjusting your Who Squares Wins homepoint (a popular tactic in summer, it seems), it was hard to judge whether any of your squares would be in the sea / army base / volcano. Now when you click on the map, it overlays a grid for you, which you can adjust before committing to your new location.
4) People who have biking and/or swimming targets, but no running targets (I know, right) were not getting a little grey run-rate line on their targets graph to keep up with. How are you doing against your targets, by the way? fetcheveryone.com/training-targets.php
5) Apostrophes now work in poll questions. That one's for you Greg
Aside from that, I've been looking at a bit of optimisation - looking at the amount of time the server spends rendering each page, and trying to find a few bottlenecks to sort out. I'm still at the stage where I'm collecting data - but I'll report back on that next week when I'll have more working hours available.
Over to you - let me know about your site problems, big and small All I ask is that when you report an issue, provide enough information for me to recreate the problem you're facing, and don't just go with (quote) Where's my graph dammit? (unquote). Here's the feedback link: fetcheveryone.com/feedback.php
This week, the list is a bit light because I have a week in Wales with The Boy - but I've still had the opportunity to sort out a few issues:
1) When people add race listings they often miss out the http/s bit at the start. This results in a broken link on the race listing. I've adjusted the code to add this where possible.
2) New joiners to Who Squares Wins were getting dumped in the Atlantic just off the coast of Africa (lat=0,lng=0). The browser now attempts to grab the location of the user, to show them a map of their local area.
3) Several requests for this one. If you're adjusting your Who Squares Wins homepoint (a popular tactic in summer, it seems), it was hard to judge whether any of your squares would be in the sea / army base / volcano. Now when you click on the map, it overlays a grid for you, which you can adjust before committing to your new location.
4) People who have biking and/or swimming targets, but no running targets (I know, right) were not getting a little grey run-rate line on their targets graph to keep up with. How are you doing against your targets, by the way? fetcheveryone.com/training-targets.php
5) Apostrophes now work in poll questions. That one's for you Greg
Aside from that, I've been looking at a bit of optimisation - looking at the amount of time the server spends rendering each page, and trying to find a few bottlenecks to sort out. I'm still at the stage where I'm collecting data - but I'll report back on that next week when I'll have more working hours available.
Over to you - let me know about your site problems, big and small
All I ask is that when you report an issue, provide enough information for me to recreate the problem you're facing, and don't just go with (quote) Where's my graph dammit? (unquote). Here's the feedback link: fetcheveryone.com/feedback.php
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I got the question about 0 lat/0 long right on The Chase the other night because of that flaw.Maclennane12:43pm, 3rd Aug 2018
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Can I put the hedge in the list please?KatieB12:43pm, 3rd Aug 2018
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Katie I think you have to use the feedback link at the top of the page or he ignores you!chunkywizard2:53pm, 3rd Aug 2018
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Thanks for fixing the WSW grid by the way - top job!chunkywizard2:54pm, 3rd Aug 2018
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I use the training plan function quite a lot. I resent the time I have to put into tidying up my training log by deleting runs. Can't we have the option to have planned runs auto deleted on the day after the due date?mikep3:47pm, 3rd Aug 2018
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Now I just want to know who’s holidaying in a volcano and whether it’s their secret lairfleecy4:34pm, 3rd Aug 2018
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3rd for MikePs comment. Probably my only persistent bug bear.larkim4:39pm, 3rd Aug 2018
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3) is a good fix.NDWDave8:02pm, 3rd Aug 2018
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Training Plans - Further Updates
Training Plan List
Butter Police
Why no app?
Useful Chat!
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
2023 (136)
December (6)
Nearly forgot...
Jam today
Removing another bit of Google's invasiveness
Fancy an extra challenge over the next 12 days?
Chewie, we're home!
Two tips for today's advent challenge
November (13)
Spammy McSpamface
40 days and 40 nights
EfM confirmed!
New Training Log Beta! 😲 (aka Change Is Not Good)
Escape from Meriden
Waiting for your training?
Route of the Century?
I didn't know I owned a nutcracker
Design our anniversary shirts/vests!
Holiday Reading - plenty of fiction :-)
Swimming in a metaphor
Hello
Off World
October (11)
Fl'update
To think I tried to mop it up!
Vote Please: How many F'Laps will you try to do?
F'Laps 2024
Long Run
So it still needs a name...
Front Garden Ultra?
The Boy is a man!
Festive Fetch Calendar
Creative K's
Signs
September (7)
Training Edit Screen - time to ditch it...
Stock check
The Doctor K Cup - October 7th!!!!
Removing the training edit screen
A Happy Applecart
Happy 19th Birthday!
Forgotten pictures
August (14)
Just in case
Weekly Total Hours
Dim Brys Dim Chwys
All hail our robot overlords!
Your local parkrun
Fool on the hill
Survey Follow Up
A survey?
Did you know?
I made a thing
VC Day
FBI Agent
What keeps you going?
Be careful what's in your paste buffer (and July training update)
July (13)
Delight
Respecting your eyeballs since 2004
Hot Stuff, coming through
Ocean Colour Scheme
18 years, 10 months, 13 days and counting...
Ooof #fail
Our listings need you!
Pics from the end of the swim
A whispered, half-remembered dream
Try the Heatmap!!!
Teaser
100 Running Words (and my June summary)
July Virtual Mile
June (8)
Last Big Swim
I can't be the only one...
Which is the real me?
#EveryoneDay
The legendary sixth samosa!
WSW Main Page Layout Changes
May Summary (contains swimming!)
Hoodies pre-order closes at 10am
May (17)
A new WSW challenge
Tagging images
Hoooooooooooooodies!!!!!!!!!!!
Another Sweatshop Competition
Did you get an email?
Fifty Years Ago - Part VIII
Fifty Years Ago - Part VII
Fifty Years Ago - Part VI
Help on a slippery slope
Fifty Years Ago - Part V
Fifty Years Ago - Part IV
Fifty Years Ago - Part III
Chuck-off: Round 2
Not my king?
Fifty Years Ago - Part II
Fifty Years Ago
And that was April
April (10)
Centurion Safari!
Sheep treats (and a routes feature)
And I’ll sail her up the west coast, through villages and towns.
15,746 places to 💩
Track Your Blood Pressure
A couple of quick fmail updates
Rusty Metal and a Cycling Grudge Match
Please help me kick the fmail tyres!
Onset of Summer Watch. Have you got Onset of Summer? +fmail!
Premium?
March (10)
And that was March
Try the new fmail system
Can you help my boy?
Tell A Friend?
Some Sweatshop Competitions
Sign up to our 2023 Virtual Challenge
Review: FORM Smart Goggles
UTMOST vs Treadmills
33,258
Embranglement!
February (13)
And that was February
This year's Virtual Challenge
What does Points make?
Automatic Everything Collector
Peaky Finders
FAO Fitbit users
My favourite training graph
You've got this.
Coffee Survey (for my stepson)
Access all the tips
Tiny Usability Changes
Cod science
Hot Tips
January (14)
Monthly Infographic Bug Fixes
No, but really...
Have a play with the monthly infographic
It's not ready yet, but...
Introducing Fetch Premium
Help me design a new Monthly Infographic...
Still following?
Fettle
Definitely Not Betting
Do you follow? (plus burp chat)
Advance warning for stalkers!
I'm back (and the Fetch LS, SS and NS shirts preorder is open)
Attention Fitbit Users
Review 50 albums in 2023 (badge!)
2022 (144)
December (8)
Treasure Hunt Day 1 - the best gift
Important updates to the Fetch Relay
Introducing the Fetch Relay 2023
Who Am I? (Solved, thanks) And How Am I?
Confessions :-)
12 Days of Christmas Treasure Hunt
Chewie, we’re home!
A few pics from the Foffice :-)
November (24)
Yesvember - Day #30 (and Festive Fetch Calendar Eve!)
The Fetch Festive 160.934 :-) [Yesvember #Day 29]
You'd better watch out... (plus Yesvember Day #28)
Brace Yourself (and there's one spare bobble hat!) and Yesvember - Day #26
Hats in the post! Plus Yesvember Day #25
Look what arrived!
Yesvember - Day #24
Training Graph Manager - usability update (Yesvember Day #23)
Yesvember - Day #22 - Cheating?
Last chance to enter the Advance Performance comp
Yesvember - Days #11 thru #14 (plus Jumpy Boy)
Weather on the training home page watch. Have you got weather on the training home page? (Yesvember - Day #10)
Oh, and... it's Yesvember - Day #9
Another bit of the internet fenced off
Yesvember - Day #8 - taking steps
Yesvember - Day #7
Yesvember - Day #6
Yesvember - Day #5
The curse of swimming GPS
Yesvember - Day #4
The Les Mis effect
Yesvember - Day #3
Yesvember - Day #2
Yesvember - Day #1
October (15)
October gives way to Yesvember!
Anyone fancy a threeway?
More thoughts on races
Racing, post-pandemic
Contracts exchanged!
Competition Time!
Last call for Flobble Hats
A record year for swimming?
Woburn Lido
Order your Bobble Hat! If you like.
I appear to have entered a race! (plus new Garmin import queueing system)
Eric the Eel
Get your hobbit on
The Doctor K Cup: Saturday 8th October!
I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind
September (16)
Take This Bus To Cuba
Fetch Bobble Hats
Trumpeting
Training View tweaks (switch maps, game overlays, mile markers)
Training View tweaks (and a play button bug fix)
A long ride and a cold swim.
Play Button
UTMOST Wava & Bike Division Rebuilds
New UTMOST leagues for cyclists and WAVA fans
The Doctor K Cup
Chance encounters
Do I ditch our Facebook stuff?
A keeper, from my feedback inbox...
Ultra distances - update
Adding ultra distances to Fastest Fetchies league.
Try the new Training Groups pages
August (11)
Training Groups Update - Coming Soon
Garmin Queue Issues
Donations without reference numbers :-)
New Elbow Laws
No longer the 3398th fastest Fetchie over 10k!
Pulling counties into league tables
What was I thinking?
County Champion?
Just bear in mind that you asked for this.
Wahoo and Coros users
How to make half a million quid (batteries not included)
July (6)
Club Listings
Book giveaway :-)
Updated Race Portfolio
Updated Targets Page
Exactly ***1*** Spare Ladies L Cycling Jersey
Search All Blogs :-)
June (10)
Imagine you could search all the public blogs...
Banking Scandal at Fetch Towers!
7pm on Baker Island #everyoneday
#EveryoneDay - Sunday 26th June 2022
Spare Challenge Coasters
The North West Passage
Feature Request Voting - Know Your Limits!
UTMOST Division 8: YIKES!
Shepperton Weight Gain Programme
UTMOST Division 9! Sub-50 10k :-)
May (16)
Four hours left :-)
Division 10: No hope of escape?
Book giveaway :-)
Division 11: No place left to hide
New HR Analysis
They're here! Well, not exactly *here*, but...
A quick Darth Mode update
Darth Mode! And a few biscuits for the hyperdrive.
Division 12: Two hours of pushing broom
Dark Mode: Beta
PB Potential? Fancy a quickie? ;-)
Division 12: Running Out Of Road?
Thank you everyone!
Making UTMOST moves :-)
Do you want a Fetch shirt?
I did my UTMOST :-) (plus new sharing infographic)
April (7)
Today's plan
NEW UTMOST BADGES!!!!!
A plug for some races
Raspberry Pavlov
Win a book :-)
United Colours of Cross Training
A little Streetview adventure
March (11)
The lockers are a pound.
Advice for Gym Noobs!
Feedback made easier
#EveryoneDay June 26th 2022
Fetch Virtual Challenge 2022 🎈
Thanks Chunky: parkrun routes!
Sniffer Dogs
Yikes!
Fetch Cycling Jerseys - Update
Route Plotting tweak
The Crow: A Pipedream!
February (7)
Fetch Kit Spares
Updated Race Listing Pages
Introducing Rundle!
I appear to be training for an OWS event!
Fetch Cycling Jerseys!!!
Does you wantz free shoez?
Post Office tomorrow - kit spares
January (13)
Updated Flanci Design (now with more Fetchness)
Badge Collection Graphic!
Updated elevation trace
Book Lists :-)
Updated sharing infographic - do you like it?
Spare Fetch Kit
Badge page refresh / feature requests
Flanci / Fetch Leggings
New Badge Pages
New hill badges
Join me on my fitness journey!
Are you the farmer?
Blog every day challenge - finishers
2021 (187)
December (14)
Book List
Ten years ago today...
A big slobbery elephant snog.
If you don't like hills, this must be getting tiring :-)
When does a hill end?
Hill finder - prototype v2
Hill Finder - prototype
2022 Targets
Chewie, We’re Home! Happy Fetch Independence Day!
Embed badges, plus a new badge :-)
Updated people page
Seeking map
Streak Watch
The new Fetch buffs are here…
November (23)
Almost there...
The Fetch Library
Update your thread titles
Ascent dissent
Mute a thread
Shortcuts
Training Import Queue
I fell off (but not really!)
Croeso i Fetcheveryone. Ydych chi'n siarad Almaeneg, Swedish neu Eidaleg?
New mobile nav
Last call for shirts
@
Just a trim please
Brought to you by wind power
300 miles later
Golden Ticket Shocker!
Banjobax (aka KOG)
Home and Away kit preorder - with long sleeve option
A little competition - win a copy of Daniels' Running Formula
Garmin testers - thanks
Add your grub stops!
Points Of Interest: Grub Stops
Garmin-owning testers wanted
October (19)
New home and away shirts and vests
Benchmark league - a few more updates
Benchmark league table
Hill areas
Preorder is now open!
'b'uffs then
Necktube design #1 & #2
Buffs (well, neck tubes)
Report dodgy GPS stuff
An apology for people who follow my training
New cycling and swimming badges
New Conquercise Feature: Grids
Sprouting a tiny biking antler :-)
Have a try of the cycling gradient analysis
Struggling with my big ring
Cycling: gradient vs pace
A question for cyclists
For Doctor K
Shan't.
September (14)
New comments (FID 1212)
Forum post previews
Garmin imports with a snippet more info
Gallery upload options
Golden Tickets
"No need to panic donate", says Williams
Forum Quotes
Spoiler Alert!
20th of March and all that.
Have you signed up yet?
This bit of crappy Upminister nearly cost me my f***ing life.
A guide with no pages
To steal a catchphrase from a wise lady...
Multiple choice polls
August (11)
Pre-Race Training - Updated
A connection!
New Member of the Month sponsor
Best Weeks - bug fixes
Your Best Week Ever
Rainbow Kit - preorder is open
Age Bests - filtering out the mistakes :-)
Sign up, sign up, for the Doctor K cup
A message from my lovely wife ❤️
Another batch of rainbow kit?
Spares: Event Clips, Swim Hats and a few rainbow tops
July (10)
A bunch of site goodies :-)
Hello kitty
Holy Simmering Mercury Batman!
Settings
A heart rate question
Sleepy Shuffle?
365 graph
Slipping on ma noob shoes
Meatronomes
World's Sexiest Bridges
June (11)
Benchmarks - a *tiny* little improvement
Race Leaderboards - some small improvements
Race Finder - Update
Up there ^
Routes - more updates
Last call for FE Event Clips
Server update
Minor code problem
Some little updates to your route list
Feature requests - two years on!
More than just a rainbow
May (8)
Rainbow Kit - update on delivery time...
Fetch Ron Hill Cycling Jerseys
Pre-order your rainbow kit now :-)
Jimi Hendrix vs Run DMC
The return of parkrun - a poll
Something in the woodshed...
Default to walk
A tour of the Fetch Office
April (11)
Instabanned :-)
I has Instagram
Fetch Event Clips
FERC
Castle Challenge Coaster!
My chess rating
Jab - symptom watch
This just in...
REVIEW: XMiles selection box
Let FE pay for your coaching qualifications :-)
Castle Challenge - A Quick Blog
March (18)
The Fetcheveryone Castle Challenge
Running vs Cycling Cadence
Fetch vests and shirts (and swim caps)
Elevation vs Follow Roads
£500 of England Athletics courses up for grabs!
TomTom users
Music by year: 1993
10k Analysis: Part 7 - Length of Training Runs
Music by year: 1992 (plus some 1991 additions)
Bot sniffing win :-) plus daily blogger count!
User profiles
10k Analysis: Part 6 - Training Pace Again
Time to update your injuries :-)
User profile - sticker button.. EDIT and race standard
More user profile adjustments
User Profile tweaking
Cute story of the week*
10k Analysis: Part 5 - Training Pace
February (17)
Year on Year mileage comparison
Elevation graphs
It's all kicking off in chess club!
Music By year: 1991
10k Analysis: Part 4 - Weekly Training Habits
Tagging virtual races
Chasing rainbows
Rainbow Shirts
Lance!
Blog writing improvements
10k Analysis: Part 3 - Accuracy of human predictions
Music by year: 1990
Smacking bots
29 slices - my seven days of dinner
10k Analysis: Part 2 - Age and Performance
Pass it on
10k Analysis: Part 1 - Distribution of best 10k times
January (31)
January
Mobile Usability Team Helping All Fetchies...
Salmon Ramen Recipe :-)
Salmon Ramen (for TBR)
Backup dog
The best GPS watches in the world... volume 1
Pick it...
People who liked...
Obscure bugs
Zen & The Art of Heart Rate Training
FIT file import - temporary issue
Keep the change, ya filthy animal
The honeymoon is over
Dirty data
Mobile Usability
Oops
Readership!
Stay sticky
It's Hip To Buy Squares
Related Threads - Exposé :-)
The Batshit Association
Jobs
Tag Team
Feed the monster!
An ad for Fetch Chess Club :-)
Estimating VO2Max
Three little birds
A not uncommon swelling
Church Mouse January
Honey, where's my super suit?
Not here.
2020 (128)
December (6)
Blog A Day 2021?
9 years ago today
Chewie, We're Home! Happy Fetch Independence Day :-)
Be Prepared
Becoming an effluencer
A few Fetch Mugs left
November (10)
The Festive Fetch Calendar is back!
FIT file import
Mugs!
Thank you, mysterious Fetchie!
Chess
UTMOST in the age of COVID-19
This'll cheer you up for sure...
Lost in translation?
Annual Infographic... updating now.
In theory...
October (11)
Training Plan Analysis
Mini plans with the training plan
5k with The Boy :-)
Welcome to tomorrow
Thank you
Become tradeable!
Pre-Race Training Volume
Doctor K Cup Week
Last orders
Advice for a friend
Trader Makeover
September (6)
The shop is open!
Hoodie Colour!
New Fetch Hoodies
A big up/holler!
VO2max
A benchmark derailed by GPS data *nerd*
August (8)
10k analysis
Officially a Sheepy Shuffler!
Pi Watering
Pre-order Avoid Everyone Face Masks
I got sent these...
Other sites? :-O
Benchmarks - an infinitely configurable set of ladders.
Try the monthly infographic :-)
July (10)
Update on Monthly Training Infographic
New Infographic
Monthly Summary (with a little tweak)
A quick Garmin update
Open Water / Wild Swimming Database
Avoid Everyone - spares
OWS Locations
Thread-level search
New Sharing Graphic & New Pastures
My first lamp post
June (16)
Replacing the Who's Training page
Combining some pages
In pursuit of the Gridmaster Ultra
15th Anniversary Kit - Spares
Shoelaces
A new How To video
Training Plan Updated
Black Lives Matter
Avoid Everyone Spares + Second Batch
Wikipedia page
Another YouTube video for sharesies :-)
Getting data to Fetch from **other places**
Feature Voting - some further updates
Feature Voting - speeded up
Another How To video - this time, Conquercise
Fantastisches Tweeten
May (13)
A video for sharing
Bees!
Fetch Introductory Zoom Presentations
A promise to all Fetchies
Fetch Virtual Weekend: Replacement Bus Service
How has Fetch use changed?
Fetch Weekly Virtual Races
Zoom Meeting - Thursday 9 til 10am
WAVA Standards Update
WAVA Standards + Poll
Fun with Age Grading :-)
New Badges Day
The test shirt fabric has arrived :-)
April (14)
Zoom Podcast - watch the video
What is WBC?
If you did the free Amazon trial...
Some small amends (and shirt version)
Pre-orders open
I was only joking, but...
If Fetcheveryone did lockdown merch
Site outage - Thursday 16th April 11pm
On exercising responsibly
My Sports Quiz - how would you have scored?
Your creative thinking required
WBC My Favourite Teacher (a bit later than the deadline)
Updated Training League
Server Downtime, Thursday 9th 00:01BST to 04:00BST (and thank you!)
March (13)
New Fetch Game: Hide and Seek
Free trial of Audible
Do you have a good memory?
New Opt-In for Fetch Miles
New Badges for Fetch Miles
The Fetch Five: Don't Let CV19 Win!
Amending event dates and notifying of cancellations
A green light comes on over your head, and you can get on with life
Most Popular Shoe Brands 2019
A review
Android: Session I
Compare Your Training
Book Now to avoid disappointment :-)
February (10)
Imports from Suunto, Fitbit, Polar and TomTom.
Plot A Route - mobile improvements
Happy tugging!
Something to play with
Adding A New Feature
February Treasure Hunt
Server Downtime
Miles = Smiles
Build Your Mile
Pop Will Eat Himself: Update
January (11)
Clarence the Cadence Kitten
Trim your trails :-)
Seven Day Leaderboard
Let's try that again
Some minor blog amendments
Try the new Forum Search Prototype
Pop Will Eat Himself
A card from HowFar?
Thank you HowFar? (Statement, not a question)
Take the red pill
Climb every mountain
2019 (134)
December (7)
The Christmas Poem
Where your treasure is...
Listen to the dog breathe
Chewie, We're Home
Thursday's Challenge
Which GPS?
Fetch Shop (of sorts)
November (12)
The zeroth challenge
Polar users - auto import
Calling all Polar users
Mobile Optimisation
Calling all Android users
Did your ads disappear?
Pin that sucker down :-)
Easier tagging
Category now editable from VIEW
Kit now editable from VIEW
Working towards tagging
Manual Add Training bug
October (16)
Boring Cricket Blog
Books Part 2
Books :-)
42
Training tags Part 2
Training tags
Let's Jazzercise
My precious
Cricket Week 4: Footage :-)
Forum Training Threads
Benny Neutrino Returns
Cricket Week 3: Wingardium Leviosa!
Benny Neutrino's Filter Tips
Cricket Week 2
Continuing Amazon Affiliate Saga
In case you haven't seen...
September (11)
Updated: Spare Anniversary Kit
Affiliate links
I did a cricket!
Fetch365 - enjoy responsibly
Filth
My dear old things
Buddies vs Follow
Server Invoice Day
Our new MOTM sponsor
Fetch Power!
Race Listings: Please Read
August (5)
Everyone *rainbow*
Almost there...
Quick blog
Country Badges
A new set of badges
July (6)
Pre-orders open
Anniversary Shirts v2
Fetch 15th Anniversary Shirts
Fetch Fest 2020
Shout Outs
Missing imports from Garmin yesterday
June (13)
Who Squares Wins: 64 screenshot
Who Squares Wins: 64 Player Edition
Training summary - older pages
Training sub-menu rejig
Try the infographic
Steady Edina
Annual Summary Infographic
The height of daft things
The training summary - the morning session
The training summary - a wordier blog
Try the annual summary thing
How to listen to the Fetch Podcast
12 month summary mega-graph!
May (15)
£79.99 off the bottom line
Competition
parkrun reviews - now with routes
Fix It Friday; Project Joker Week 2; and some shout outs.
Fetch Kit Cupboard Sale
The bonus ball
Project Joker - Week 1
Fix It Friday
A quick update on the server
Fetch 15th Anniversary Kit
There is a good service operating
Oof.
In case you're wondering...
Trouble auto importing from Garmin?
Fix It Friday: Stuff that came to me in dreams
April (12)
Feature Voting - now with virtual badges :-)
The moment of triumph!
New Feature Voting
Fix It Friday: What would your horse be called?
Marathon Pacing: tyre-kickers required
Fix It Friday: Back to Basics
Podcast Poll
Fix It Friday: The League Of Everyone
Dom, dom, dom, I've got DOMS, I've got DOMS!
Crouch, Touch, Pause.... longer pause... what am I doing again?
Training Log - Update
Site Update: New Font
March (15)
Fix It Friday: An Endless Mission
Naming and faming :-)
2nd in my age category!
Fix It Friday: Brought to you by Surprise Inset Day
New training log
Route Matching - Ready :-)
Fix It Friday
What's your unit of measurement?
Ciderthon competition
Fix It Friday: Stroopwafels of Doom!
Route Matching - Update
This week's cool list
Me in the river
Big Fetch Miles 2019
Fix It Friday: Fingerprints!
February (13)
A Maths Challenge
Fetch Legends: Activate!
Whose coat is this jacket?
Fix It Friday: The Fix Awakens
Joining the awesome list...
Fix It Friday
Naming and faming :-)
Fix It Friday - Monthly Summary
Training Month Summary
Podcast Q&A
If you can't read this, don't panic.
*redsaber* The force is strong with these Fetchies!
Fix It Friday *bluesaber*
January (9)
Some shout outs :-)
Fix It Friday!
Podcast Ep 3, plus some naming and faming :-)
Fix It Friday
Fetch Chaos
Oooh! Second chance Berlin trip! And new subbers, podcast episode, and Trader.
My week of running
Naming and faming - this week :-)
Naming and faming :-)
2018 (138)
December (8)
A Christmas Message (in podcast form)
Rungeon :-)
Hey, Everyone!
France Trip Vote
Happy Fetch Independence Day
Actual free trip to France (incl. flights)
Litter
Sombrero's Lovely Cards
November (14)
Hoodies + other spares
Spare Fetch Kit
Festive Fetch Calendar 2018
Avatars
Book Giveaway - Can We Run With You, Grandfather?
Fix It Friday
Bedford Harriers Half - place offered
Updated Kit Bag
Family Fortunes :-)
Any adidas experts out there?
No Fixes Today - just two challenges
Big Fetch Mile Cardiff
Fix It Friday
Festive Fetch Calendar 2018
October (14)
Hello landlubbers
Embedded polls
Member of the Month
Fix It Friday
Spare Fetch shirts and vests
Abingdon
Fix It Friday
My Fetch Mile
One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner.
Fix It Friday - 'Ave It!
Automatic route matching
Automatic route matching
One last reminder for those cycling jerseys
Fix It Friday - Forensics and User Experience
September (14)
Fix It Friday
Server Downtime 2.30pm 26th September
Never Again
Fix It Friday!
Handling your weirdness
Cards ordered :-)
Just wondering...
Fix It Friday :-)
Try the Fetcheveryone Tutorial
40 days and 40 nights
Fix It Friday
ARION insoles - review part 1
Fetch Shirt - Black Ones, and sizing
Shirts and Vests Pre-Order
August (14)
Fix It Friday
Blog Height squished
Site Outage Last Night
New Mobile Nav
Fix It Friday
New feature - how you doin'? :-)
Sunflower spread
Fix It Friday
A new pre-race mileage graph
Fetch Social: Draycote Water September
Fix It Friday: The Supermarket Analogy
A run with _andy :-)
Suunto 9 Review
Fix it Friday
July (5)
Fix It Friday!
Five Get Wet In Devon
Big Glasgow Weekend - Part 1: Gies A Cwtch
Tom Williams Interview - Final Part
Glasgow Big Fetch Mile Results and Pics
June (17)
Abingdon Week 17 - P&D Booster rockets
Interviewing Tom Williams: Part III
Walking League (and one just for Nellers)
Follow Roads - continued
Week 18 in the bag
Tackling turds
Abingdon Marathon Training: Week 18
Interview with Tom Williams - Part 2
Server
Five Questions (ready for serious answers)
Kick some tyres for me
Interview with Tom Williams - Part 1
Five Questions
Follow Roads saga
Google maps progress, plus Abingdon plans
Training Summary - Infographics
Who Squares Wins - ranking update
May (10)
Training log maps converted
More mapping updates
Who Squares Wins - The Wizard's Hat
De doo doo doo... another one bites the dust...
Invisible changes
Silverstone 10k
Three year throwback
Why your support makes the difference
Some high mileage Fetchies
dryrobe winner
April (14)
Interviewing Tom Williams
Swimming Caps!
#finishformatt
New batch of shirts and vests
You make big mistake my friend
Fetchpoint
Glasgow Big Fetch Mile announced
Two tickets to the Running Awards
Pics from Dudley Big Fetch Mile
Notes for London Marathon Fetchpointers
Results from today's Big Fetch Mile
Who Squares Wins - prototype board
Attention London Marathoners!
New game - coming soon
March (9)
Intervals, Solidarity, Swimming and Fmail
Ready to give the new fmail a try?
More on fmail
New fmail system
Win a dryrobe :-)
For jabberknit...
Updating the Training Home page
Pics from Bedford Big Fetch Mile
Sledgends :-)
February (13)
Buffs On Sale
Big Fetch Mile Bedford
Vlog :-)
Marathon Talk
Important GDPR stuff - PLEASE read
A page of historical importance
Vlog :-)
Road Rash, Marathon Prediction and T-Shirts
This :-)
Capturing the dog
It's BACK!
Enter Wilmslow Half Marathon
An advertisement
January (6)
Local Fetchies - Opt In
Revealed: World's Best Shoes
How I chose the Big Fetch Mile venues
Big Fetch Mile 2018 - Venues & Provisional Dates
Try adding an image to your training entry
Mileage Targets 2018 - Update
2017 (147)
December (12)
Mileage Targets 2018
Thank you
Brownie Recipe :-)
Phew
Fetch Hoodies + Buffs SALE Update
Chewie, We're Home
Fetch Hoodies SALE - what's left
Fetch Hoodies! SALE!!! (and Buffs available too)
Chewie, We're Home
Sharing pics
Fetch Jingle Mile Cambridge photos
Glorious Failure: Bedford Harriers Half Marathon
November (20)
Serpents, hamstrings and inversions
A special anniversary approaches...
Hamstring and prototype updates
Training Log Prototype - Today's Improvements
Red Venom sale
For what it's worth...
Training Log Prototype - Update #2
Training Log Prototype - Update
Big Fetch Mile - venue hunt
RT for a Garmin
Training Log Prototype - To Be Fixed
fetcheveryone.com/amazon
The Weekly vLog (by me)
Thanks :-)
New Training Log Prototype - Available Now
Thanks for following
VLog - footage from the Cardiff Big Fetch Mile
Big Fetch Mile[s] 2018
Win a place in the Surrey Half
I vont to scan your barcode.
October (12)
Big Fetch Weekend :-)
Fetch Mile Results
Festive Fetch Calendar :-O
Calling Parkers everywhere!
In which I decorate a cake.
Regent's Park Fetchie Discount
Elevation in colour
"I didn't come here to walk to Sparta!"
New elevation info
Chicken Ballot-ine, with a side order of beef
New training log headers
Ballot day tomorrow - help needed
September (19)
Weekly vLog - COCONUTS!!!
River Thames Half Marathon
The lollipop update
On failing gracefully
Doctor K Day
Fetch Kit Sale - Updates
Weekly vLog
Fetch Kit Sale
Training Log View Update
Fetcheveryone Weekly? Vlog?
Fetchie Race Discount - Regent's Park 10k
Training Log Tags - Live
Training Log Tags
Weekly vLog - Derby Mile, and a pause to salute the legendary Doctor K
24 hours later
Doctor K donation page
Doctor K
Fetch Weekly vLog
Derby Mile - tomorrow!
August (8)
Race Prices; and an alien earworm
Straight outta Cromford - the Fetch Weekly vLog!
A Fetch vLog! With prizes!
Quick search location for sharing
New WAVA graph
Weird FIT file thing
Back from me 'olidays :-)
Linking race results to training log entries
July (12)
Race Pricing - crowdsourcing
Appdate for Android and iPhone
Inhalers
Fetch Mile - Cardiff?
Bookends
Race listing omelette
Coding and town planning
Please review your races
A2B winners
Motivational Sounds - the final 10
Two more Big Fetch Miles? :-)
Bedford Fetch Mile Results
June (19)
Big Fetch Mile
Motivational Sounds
Fetch fug - updated design
Fetch fug (available at the Fetch mile)
I've done the naughtiest thing ever.
Donating Blood - my Vlog
Fapp In the App Store :-)
Can I kick it?
A***biscuits
This just in...
For Bean
Your app status is Waiting For Review
A2B
Fetch Caps
Garmin Communicator Plugin
Fetch App - strong and stable testing
HTTPS is here
Fetch App progress
https access to the site
May (14)
Fetch App
Apostrophes
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Site down at 11pm
Round and round the garden
Try the new home page layout
Server down tonight @ 11pm
Browser testers wanted
The Big Fetch Mile!!!
Site *NOT* down tonight. [cough]
Bluffer's Competition - Winner
Bedford parkrun timelapse
Return of the cap
April (8)
Fetchpoint (London and Milton Keynes!)
Base camp, VMLM
Bronze!
Just for D2
Off to the awards
Bloodvlog
Hoodies - it's on!
Updated Training Home Page
March (6)
'Train' page
Project Joker
Hoodies and Londons
Hands up, hands UP! Draycote Water 10
Bluffer's Competition
Project Joker
February (12)
Draggable?
Running Awards shortlisted
Route Plotter now with OpenStreetMap
Plan for Bluffer's comp
Update to Route Plotter
First update to the route mapper
For Angus
Virtuous Circles
Competition coming soon
Race Guide Ads
Club La Santa vLog
Fetch Fixtures
January (5)
Word Clouds
Buckets Ready
New Home Page
Do me a favour...
Limited Companies, filing accounts, that sort of thing
2016 (128)
December (11)
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
Five Years Ago Today
Pantsfest! May the stains be ever in your favour!
#FEXIT
Photoshop SOS
Attention: Fitbit users
Bedford Half 2016
Luton Fetchmob: Breaking Point
Vote Fetch!
Breaking news: Paris Marathon
November (21)
How to end a LiveChat.
Define wrong
TomTom Runner 3 Review - Any Questions?
Deliveryman
Movember: Project Beard: Day 24: Beardraggled
Festive Fetch Calendar 2016
We're gonna be in the Hudson
Hey Chiefy
I've written summat
Going Postal
A special mention
Training Log Beta
Spare Hoodies
Updates to Training Beta
Movember: Project Beard - Day 8 (The Seven Day Itch)
Vote for Fetch
Training Log Detail View - Some Changes
Aberdeen University Study
Consultation V2
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Fetchpoint - October Winners and November Prizes
October (16)
Alien nuggets!
Keeping a tight lid on the biscuit tin
Training Log Beta
100 Running Words
Pssst....
Fetchmob, December 3rd
Where to mob?
Little things
That All-Time Mileage League
The sudoku that keeps on giving.
Sub-25 for 1km :-)
Fetchmob - December 3rd
New Training Log Preview
Fixed the overlap...
Why the new training log isn't ready yet...
vLog
September (12)
Doughnut or Donate
Training Log - Sneak Peek
Fetch Shop Sale! Old stuff clearout!
vLog!!!
The consultation system...
Garmin support for timezone info
The GMT/BST/Timezone problem
Training Log Consultation...
Training Log - Consultation
Fetch Social Runs
Subscriber shirts, vests and hoodies, and determination.
Fetch Voluntary Subscriptions
August (3)
Ze Gryndylows! My first #OWS :-)
Testing Fetchpoint exclusion zones
Fetchpoint scoring system
July (7)
Conquercise Prize Draw?
Fetch Games: Checkpoints (and what's wrong with them)
More owls...
Your Favourite Fetch Game?
Even More Utmost Than Before...
Chiswick!
15 days later...
June (10)
Five days on...
[Untitled]
A quick thank you...
What do you think?
If you'd be so kind...
Poised
Which watch?
Run Bedford 10k
Import from a TomTom
Attention TomTom users
May (10)
Race Distance poll
An ungainly fish
A five year plan
What Club La Santa can learn from parkrun
Cream Me Up, Scotty
Greetings from Club La Santa
And a quick poll...
Club Charter
A poll about intervals
More owls!
April (11)
Robin Hood and his Merry Dad :-)
Warning: Dull - some screen res stats
Responsive Design Update
For all you marathoners
A Poll
Fetchpoint
Ditching the forum categories?
Moving to Responsive Design
Sandy 10: Be Kind To Horses
Owls!
For Adam and Jamie
March (11)
Bacon Smoke!
Benchmarks Update
Bath - Race Report
PB!!!!!!!
An annoying eight-year-old.
Let's Cook and Cut and Paste :-)
Let's Cook :-)
RIP Gramma
Book Winners
Dog farming
Site header update
February (5)
Book Giveaway
Pi Club
Pi Project Update
Because I'd like to check the blogging badges are working...
Crapruary
January (11)
Snooker Freak
Badges - Another Update
Unlockable Badges - Update
Unlockable Badges
TomTom Runner 2 Review
Gallery updates
Snowball coding and Fetch Unlockables!
Achievement Medals - what do you reckon?
Run The Sum
2015 Book List (and a bit of a review / plan)
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
2015 (175)
December (7)
Red Red Wine
A Poll
Gis a job!
Bedford Half
REMEMBER!!!
Vote for Fetch
Now you've hopefully got the idea...
November (13)
The Festive Fetch Calendar
Don't get excited or anything...
Slightly Dismal Friday
Pre-order your Fetch Buff now :-)
A message from our sponsor
Dr Fetch will see you now
Only the grumbliest, achiest chocolate... :-)
The Stanford Experiment
Buff Design
Snugs - Review
Love, Commitment, Support
The pre-wedding blog!
Good morning Fetchers, good morning Everyone
October (9)
Monthly Totals
Did you write a blog yesterday?
The First Rule of Web Server Maintenance
The gain line
Fectch
The zipper challenge!
Sugar daddy
Now in colour!
Competition Time!!!
September (14)
Teach your kids (or yourself) to code
Sticky Training Choices
Goodies: GetMore water and the Alcatel OneTouch Watch
Shirt size guidelines
This nearly made it...
Subscriber Shirt Design
I've got wood!
Humbled
New Beginnings
Some more questions answered
Swimming
Some responses to your comments
Standing on the shoulders of Fetchies
Funtleks
August (8)
24 hours in the south
24 hours in the north
Fetchies Assemble!
Thank you
Better knowledge than riches
Fitbit Urge
The villainous Mr Fetch!
Uncomfortable rear
July (8)
Why don't you play Conquercise?
Another week of strange training
Book Giveaway - Winners
GPS Reviews
Criteria for reviewing a GPS
Auto-bike-detector :-)
Win some bookses :-)
Half Way!
June (13)
Time Lapse Clouds
TomTom Bandit - very QUICK first impressions
My wings are like a shield of steel!
Running plus Cycling update
Embarrassingly...
Stalkers Paradise!
Recommend me a bike :-)
Holy Steamrollers Batman!
Rest day (no such thing)
Sqveeeeze!
We will now imitate the flight of a goose :-)
You made me ink! Snorkel safari :-)
Good morning from CLS :-)
May (10)
Club La Santa :-)
The AWESOME Power of Fetchies!
Home Insurance Shaftage :-/
Editing Forum Posts
The Future!
Some London Marathon stats
Walking On The Moon
Hardest parkrun?
New found wisdom
Week 1
April (11)
Marathon vLog
I owe some hugs!
And that concludes the voting from the Danish judges
Adventures in geocaching
Your video clips wanted!
Jelly with no spoons
Random Ultra
Suncream in my eyes - a review of 'Running and Stuff'
Books what I've read this year
Measuring the effect of wind
Wind Roses
March (18)
Watching the tide roll away
A great week of running!
Happy Jigs Wisdom!
Mobile Fetch
I don't do this very often...
Breathless Optimism
20 miles yesterday
This Week's vLog
Decision Trees and the sub-4!
Democracy Street
Mayan Maths
Bath Half (at last)
Still a chicken
Costume Drama in Bath
TomTom importing
Updated 'Train' page
Zonked
Nearly
February (29)
Pheasant
An Unexpected Journey
Wind picking up...
An unplanned kit alarm
Race Pace Test
2nd place
Week ends
Bounceback
Barking carrots
Bedroom pizza
Top of the mountain
Blogs get the mobile treatment
Supersonic Katie, and a marathon pace question
Back home
Racing parkrun ;-)
Unblocking the sink
Start in Darkness
Some times I'd like
Mobile Site - Forum Section
All-Time Leaderboards
Batteries
Sword fighting
PB Attempts
Duct tape and WD40
Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants
Lessons
Shoe horning
Training vLog Week 13
Big February Project
January (35)
Cake, invalidated
Small sips
LiRF, award shortlist, beginners, books, boy.
Dog Available :-)
Cutback
New Recipe Section
Lazy
Another threshold run
New Beginnings
Blah
But far more importantly...
Fetch Beginners Programme
Give it a go :-)
Training vLog - Week 11
Threshold Run (a running blog)
Long day, short blog
(Lack of) Pump Action
A thread to follow
This Boy Can
Local Leaderboards for Checkpoints
Choking.
February 18th
Godzilla!
The Travelling Checkpoint Salesman
Acorn Antiques
Bearing Up
Deleted Bridges and Dodgy Lasers
I'm Batman!
Healthy and Appy
Punch O'Clock!
The plan, then.
Ten mile toes
On Parliament
[Untitled]
Bold Claims, and a Challenge for 2015
2014 (262)
December (9)
A trip to Wales (vLog)
Christmas Messages from Fetchies
Various
FERC London Marathon Places - Draw
It's gone in my sock...
Festive Fetch Five
This Week's Training
To the Post Office!
Training vLog - Week 4
November (12)
I Am Groot!
Slightly Dismal Friday
Week 3 - in which I nearly drown my wife!
I said yes :-)
Free Daps! aka Test GORE-TEX® footwear this winter!
Training vLog - Week 2
More chances for VMLM entries
Marathon Talk
My first training vLog :-)
Second place?
In :-)
Questionnaire about personality traits amongst runners
October (16)
Adidas API
Horseplay minimiser
Running with the big dog
Flat and Windy
Who'd like to test the Garmin API then?
Advantage Borg
Deal?
Jumble
Milk Tray Reps in the Rain
Geneva
Quote
Hatfield 5k, and some other running thoughts
Site layout changes
Vote for Training Plans
Maths help
3-2-1
September (8)
A quick device poll
Garmin Connect API
Cake at the lake :-)
Empowering Women
This Week's Training
Tick :-)
Article help
First outing with the Harriets
August (7)
Book club and Harriers
A treasure trove for bookish types
What I did on my Summer Holidays
Local decoration
The Fisher King
Mojitos and no mosquitos!
Cake-athlon
July (26)
James Mason
Missing Week
Camping View
Wild Camping
Quick
Transalpine Race
In brief
Urgent! Pair of runners wanted!
Fetch Kit Available to Pre-order :-)
Fetch Anniversary Kit - Preview
API and FAK!
That dog has a puffy tail
More books
Reverse Moses
Zombies vs Plants
Shovel required
Nightfever
Dayfever
Catcher in the Rye
My sister the psychologist
Drink your strong limey drink
Keep me in the loop
Bread knives, hedgehogs and the dog in the night time
Whoops
Pinteresting
Q&A?
June (34)
Checkpoints video
Walden
Happy boys and giggly imps
Spring loaded
Elbow grease
Fetch 10th Anniversary Kit
Fetch YouTube Tutorial - Race Guide
Finding the Library folder on a Mac
Stoat!
Sonic screwdriver
Live wires
Wiring help needed
Garmin Express Experiment
Scalded sloth
Garminge
Potching
New Forum Layout
Further updates to the blog layout
New blog layout
First woodpecker
Beastin' parkrun
Pantoball
All was well
USA! USA! USA!
Marking Territory
The People's Poet Is Dead :-(
Holy Water
Throwing shapes
Life moves pretty fast
Recursion is beautiful
Win an OS Explorer / Landranger map of your choice
Intervals with a Suunto Ambit 2S
Tick
Economy done two ways
May (31)
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Vorsprung Durch Lego Technic
How do I liberate my boy from his XBox?
Questions?
Life in the Woods
Lazy
MovesMissed
Intervals with a TomTom
Electioneering
[Untitled]
Tree fluff
More camping
Zen and Camping
Not eaten by bears
Bear food
Camping List
Camping Venn Diagrams
Floppy dog
Routes but not Rathbone
Illustrator wanted
Masking
Highlights
The Cosmic Ballet Goes On
Silverstone 10k :-)
Quick one
[Untitled]
Superhuman snooker
Dogturdflagman
Numbers!
Whittlin'
Chapter 1
April (29)
King Bin
Quiet day on Feedback Mountain
Listing
42
Go directly to parkrun. Do not pass Godzuki.
A day in Wales
[Untitled]
Spanner
The Lost Diadem of Fetchbook
Falling asleep in my dinner
Egg
Sofathon
God gave rock and roll to you.
Sugar Mule
Not bad, consid'rin.
Tinkering
Can U Dig It?
A weekend in Wales
Looking forward to Oliver!
Thank you, and more App talk
RIP Nan
Blah
Appy
Pyjamas at both ends.
Thump. Saturday has started.
Sore tum :-/
Zombies aside... first impressions of the new TomTom
TomTom Runner Cardio Press Event
Am I pregnant?
March (31)
Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes
Sandy 10
#bedfordhappy
Me on YouTube
New graphs live
Follow the dot
Only the best for the Captain's table
Mrs Diahann Wagner is GOING HORNY
Sport Relief Win
Hot dogs, quick blogs
Toton Sidings
A sign!
Owen Farrell visualisation technique
Kebabs!
Booster fails to ignite
Myton Rugby Run (5 Miler)
Rugby before rugby
Sweetcorn antidote
Custard factory
Pooped
I did some intervals :-)
Speed work?
Many things
A bit cabbagey here.
Angry Wasp
Minty
Rainbow's End
Core Dump
Bath Half (in detail)
A quick overview
Down to business in Bath
February (28)
Made it to Bath
Unexpected hugs
Slider
I like to go a-wandering
Spring cleaning
Tongue-lolling
Because We're Worth It
I don't know what!
Thanks Jim
Enough now
Clearing the pipes
Crouch, Touch, Pause...
Medication, that's what you need.
Symptom Tour
Hello FBI
Dazed day
Why I'm an optimist
Mobius birds
Snotty knuckles
In this house...
Retch Everyone
Carrots
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
Ultrahalfmarathoner
Angry Birds
Belching
Clarkson averse
Good day :-)
January (31)
*bunting* *cake*
Bigger Boys
Zombies!
Pretending to be Saga Norén
Waiting for the AA
Ship shape
Readthrough
Technology takes you further
Love Garden
Cushions
High Heel Striker
Bit of a rubbish one
Ta
Hot Re-fills
Coding Grinch
An august prediction
Some Running Goals for Q1
Wipe-clean dog
Breaking it down
Snakes and Ladders
Bigger Ponds
Drink Your Weak Lemon Drink
All in All
Panning the pancake
Does JK Rowling own a dog?
Back to the kitchen table
Steve Davis shoes
Pigs on a water slide
Sloshing
Protocol
19 books :-)
2013 (29)
December (3)
Oh...
Engine Management Light
Hannibal Vector
November (3)
Speed skating
Stew-pendous
Cool Hand Grandpa
October (3)
Bookish
Minecraft Cake
Random dump
September (2)
Blog by Email!
Catchup blah
August (3)
Big Green Caterpillar
Questions answered - final CLS blog
Last Days at Club La Santa
July (10)
A nice morning of swimming and tennis
Please Read: Questions for a sports coach
Snorkeltastic
Hitting the straps
First Impressions at Club La Santa
Mile High Blog
Clocking off
For the second week running...
Another Club La Santa catchup
The Floor In The Plan
June (3)
Club La Santa
Bulk Uploading, and win a book
FERC Charities 2011-2012
March (1)
Bath Weekend
January (1)
Meet Steve
2012 (39)
December (2)
Tired Now Boss
Bath - Week 14 + Foodbank
November (3)
White Level Reading
Bath - Week 15
Bath - Week 16
October (2)
Onwards!
C'mon Dave
July (1)
RIP Arnie
June (2)
Rub some bacon on it
18 weeks
May (9)
Techy not tetchy
Time for a techy blog
Time to walk the dog
Stevington 12k
Properly coldy
Still a bit coldy
New blog design live
A bit coldy
Blogs Redesign
April (2)
Easter
SERIOUSLY LORD FETCH, SORT IT OUT
March (8)
A long run up
Running Tick
Weekend
Sport Relief Mile
Back once again
Swimming sweetcorn and other vegetables
Joy Rides, Sticks and Medals
Training Tip
February (9)
And...
Katie, ICT, and some more MySQL
May The Ground Force Be With You
Functions
Well done Batman.
Optimisation Crossword
Snow Days
Gallery, and parkrun
Pleased
January (1)
There Are Some Really Sexy Girls On Fetch
Comments
Is the 'back to blogs' arrow/button deliberately removed / replaed by 'all blogs' hypertext?
The weight graph improvements are great too. Any chance of adding the ability to record your height, and putting lines at different BMI levels (e.g. 18.5, 25 for example)?
If it's total training then mine are wrong, if it's just running then it's right
fetcheveryone.com/checkpoints-pair.php?pair=11983_2950