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A bunch of site goodies :-)

10:41am, 27 Jul 2021
Individual training runs should now have five coloured zones on the main HR graph, instead of the previous three zones (easy, threshold, and the grey bit in the middle) e.g:

fetcheveryone.com/t-19450873

You can set your HR zones here:

fetcheveryone.com/user-settings-heartrate.php
(Profile > Settings > Training Options > Edit Your Heart Rate Zones)

Likewise, the monthly summary should now show you the proportion of time spent in each HR zone:

fetcheveryone.com/training-month.php

I have some more cool HR graphs up my sleeve - coming soon :-)

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For walkers, the monthly summary now has a functioning 'Walk' tab, so you can see the amount of time you spent in each zone during the month; your walking benchmarks for the month; and also your HR distribution (I was surprised that my HR isn't very high for the walking I do, but there's quite a bit of stopping for the dogs usually). Find it here:

fetcheveryone.com/training-month.php?tab=W
(Train > Summary & Analysis > Monthly Summary)

You can now set pace thresholds for your walks, just as you do with runs, rides etc. I've hopefully set all walkers up with default values that are centred around your average walking pace. Just don't forget to press the 'Save changes' button once you've mucked about :-) I've made it pulse a little bit, just to draw attention to it :-) Here's where you set your pace zones:

fetcheveryone.com/user-settings-pace.php?category=W
(Profile > Settings > Training Options > Edit Your Pace Zones > Walk)

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You might also notice that recent training entries have the exact time, rather than just the hour. The training log is still sorted by hour, not by exact time, so you might get a bit of funkiness with the sort order of multiple sessions on the same day - but that should come good once the update has completed. I can't backdate this accuracy unfortunately.

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In me-me-me news, my left calf went pop on Sunday, 7.5 miles into a planned 12 mile run. Luckily, Katie was out in the car, so I skulked on a picnic bench outside a pub for ten minutes until she collected me on her way home from swimming. By far the most annoying thing is that I should have taken the sensible decision to abort my run before it happened. From about 5.5 miles onwards, it was feeling tight. I should have stopped and had a walk at least. Foolish pride and misguided priorities say "run it off". But next time, I will remind myself that it's better to walk home with a tight muscle, than to limp home with a torn one, and that it's better to sacrifice a long run than to miss a week or two of running.

I'd been paranoid about the right calf since the start of March - and I thought I'd cracked it. I stayed away from speedwork, and I kept an injury log open, to remind me regularly to update how it was doing. It's doing fine btw, and sends its regards :-) Here's the history:

June 2019 - right calf
Sep 2019 - right calf
Nov 2019 - right calf
April 2020 - not sure which one
November 2020 - left calf
March 2021 - right calf
July 2021 - left calf

I'm 48 hours in, and walking is just about feeling normal again. The normal routine is to just take a week off running entirely, and then see how it goes. Hey ho. Plenty of worse things happen to people.
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Comments

  • There is a pattern in your injury history there, must be some sort of root cause, strength work for the legs and hips might well be an answer.
    Ocelot Spleens
    10:44am, 27th Jul 2021
  • *glares sternly at calf* speedy recovery. Thanks for the updates :)
    Corrah
    10:45am, 27th Jul 2021
  • Sending healing vibes. No one deserves an ouchy calf
    DingDocMerrily
    10:45am, 27th Jul 2021
  • Sorry about the calf, but great about the site changes. Thank you heart
    LindsD
    10:49am, 27th Jul 2021
  • Love the site work! I hope the calf behaves & that maybe you can figure out how to prevent it.
    sallykate
    10:56am, 27th Jul 2021
  • Great changes. I said thanks for the time adding minutes on the Feature feature thread! Can I join you in the "isn't calf injury bloomin annoying and hard to shake" club? 7 weeks and counting here - 2 abort returns tried. Grrr. :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    11:37am, 27th Jul 2021
  • Is there an option to turn off the orange line on the heart rate graph? I’ve forgotten what it’s for.
    Fragile Do Not Bend
    11:41am, 27th Jul 2021
  • FDNB - it's beats per mile, but no, there's no option to turn it off at present. It's handy for seeing where you start to lose your efficiency.
    fetcheveryone
    11:47am, 27th Jul 2021
  • That's a bugger about the calf :-(
    minardi
    11:47am, 27th Jul 2021
  • Loving the walk pace graphs!
    Fragile Do Not Bend
    11:48am, 27th Jul 2021
  • Thanks fetch for the explanation, I think I will put in a suggestion for a toggle on/off feature as it’s easier to see the rainbow colour graph without it.
    Fragile Do Not Bend
    11:51am, 27th Jul 2021
  • Beats per mile FDNB
    Hope you resolve your calf issues, maybe a physio could help?? ;-)
    The HR graphs look great, but they all seem to have the base set at 0bpm which leaves a compressed plot along the top. Could it start at the initial (or lowest) HR?
    StuH
    11:53am, 27th Jul 2021
  • Sorry to hear about the calf again Fetch. Mine plague me on a regular basis. Damn the pesky calf curse.
    Rascal
    12:03pm, 27th Jul 2021
  • Stu - it should be using your resting HR as the baseline, not zero. Here's my dog walk from this morning - there are parts where the line drops to close to resting: fetcheveryone.com/t-19458740 The problem with using the range of the activity is that people like to lay them side-by-side, so if they don't have the same scale, it's harder to compare. I've made the graph 20% taller, to help decompress the bars.
    fetcheveryone
    12:11pm, 27th Jul 2021
  • Sorry about calf. Calf raises while brushing teeth are helping but I still have to build miles slowly. Hope you can recover fast
    Serendippily
    12:53pm, 27th Jul 2021
  • Calf raises have definitely helped me with calf tears in the past. Strengthen not stretch is my watchword while recovering
    Derby Tup
    1:03pm, 27th Jul 2021
  • Hope your calf recovers quickly. Just on a break at West Mids Safari Park so I'll have a look at the site changes later!
    Sigh
    1:38pm, 27th Jul 2021
  • Ah, so it is. I've just set my RHR to 100bpm, much better :)
    StuH
    2:26pm, 27th Jul 2021
  • I’m obviously not alone in being a serial calf injurerer! I hope that yours recovers well and lastingly.
    Eynsham Red
    2:35pm, 27th Jul 2021
  • Nice work on the site, thanks. One day I'll figure out all the lines on the HR graph...... ;-)
    Be nice to your calf You need it (both of them, ideally!) for a while, yet. Hope it eases and is fixed soon.
    3M
    2:51pm, 27th Jul 2021
  • Oh what a shame! Gutted for you. Not only the calf injury, but also a skulk as well!
    Btw, I do love this site. You are good, you know!!
    Wezza
    3:55pm, 27th Jul 2021
  • If you find an answer to the calf issue, let me know.
    Diogenes
    5:15pm, 27th Jul 2021
  • Excellent site goodies. Hope you recover from the injury quickly.
    Ness
    5:40pm, 27th Jul 2021
  • *leaves tennis ball* calf rolling needed ALL the time……
    runnerbean
    5:58am, 28th Jul 2021
  • Regular-ish massages seem to help keep my calves in check, hope it's not a prolonged injury.
    alpenrose
    6:04pm, 28th Jul 2021


Hello kitty

5:30pm, 21 Jul 2021
Just a quickie, because I'm about to melt into a heap.

I've added the ability to filter your log by a specific piece of kit. There are two ways to do it:

1) Go to your training log, and use the new option for kit under 'Filters' (can also choose "No kit assigned", which might be useful). fetcheveryone.com/training.php

Or...

2) Go to your kit bag, and click the 'Show Training' button next to any piece of kit. fetcheveryone.com/kit.php

It got lots of upvotes in the feature requests. I guess you can now find out which pair of shoes is your fastest. Growing up, I once chose a pair of shoes because my parents told me they were the same ones that Steve Davis wore.

I hope you like it, but just at this precise moment, all I really want is to go outside and turn the hosepipe on myself. And not just because of the Steve Davis thing.
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Comments

  • Did the shoes help you run faster or improve your snooker?
    ZenTaoPlurp
    6:13pm, 21st Jul 2021
  • I could play snooker faster.
    fetcheveryone
    6:16pm, 21st Jul 2021
  • You need to hose yourself down after thinking about Steve Davis? That is one niche fetish... :)
    JamieKai *chameleon*
    6:29pm, 21st Jul 2021
  • I've recently added 'ankle support' as 'kit' to help me track my achilles niggle, so this is really useful, thanks!
    Sigh
    6:36pm, 21st Jul 2021
  • But mostly because of the Steve Davis thing, am I right?
    RichHL
    8:58pm, 21st Jul 2021
  • Steve Jones? Lyn Davies? Merv the Swerve? Gareth Edwards? Who can say....
    paul the builder
    8:45am, 22nd Jul 2021
  • Fun fact (at least I think it's true). Merv the Swerve swallowed his tongue on the pitch during a match, and was saved by the same doctor that operated on my spine when I was a baby!
    fetcheveryone
    9:05am, 22nd Jul 2021
  • I hope he is dining out on both endeavours, on a regular basis :-)
    paul the builder
    10:39am, 22nd Jul 2021
  • I just realised when looking at the kit log, that it would probably be good to have hours, as well as miles. Some kit (my turbo trainer and treadmill) is more about how long it is used for?
    boyband6666
    11:07am, 27th Jul 2021


Holy Simmering Mercury Batman!

4:31pm, 20 Jul 2021
I blogged about the 365 graph on Friday, and one of the commenters (K5 Gus) suggested I add some dates to show when the peaks occurred. I liked it, so I did it :-) I also added your 'current' values, and a little percentage indicator to show where you are in relation to your peaks. I'm at 91% of my peak mileage and slowly rising, like simmering mercury! How about you?

fetcheveryone.com/training-365.php

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Comments

  • ooh, nice - love it! I'm 98/99% of max on Run/ walk but just 39% on bike.
    chunkywizard
    4:33pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • I'm only 2% of my biking total!
    MisterTea
    4:35pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • Nice! Here's mine:

    Sigh
    4:35pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • Cool. Within rounding error I'm at 100% of my 365 running total. Nice to see I'm spending more time running than cycling at the moment too. A pandemic can do that to you.

    Oranj
    4:43pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • 😁😁 Thanks fetch 👍👍
    K5 Gus
    5:10pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • Thanks. That looks great.
    Ness
    5:35pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • Like!

    Can the different categories (run, swim, bike, walk) be turnoffandonable?
    Fitz
    7:05pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • Love Fitz' use of Creature Comforts lexicon :)
    ishep 🇪🇺
    7:14pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • Oh, I love it! And I’m totally not gutted that way back in 2016 I was only 6 miles off a 100 mile year in swimming. Damn!!
    Oh, but there’s a target to chase :) :)
    Angus Clydesdale
    7:32pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • Yep! I am liking this feature very muchly :-)
    Seratonin
    9:54pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • 94%😁
    TBR (TheBeardRunner)
    10:37am, 21st Jul 2021
  • Great addition! When I saw the blog title I thought it was going to be temperature related! 🙂
    JCB
    11:46am, 21st Jul 2021
  • Very good. Run 30%. Bike 70%.Walk 96%.
    Ocelot Spleens
    2:41pm, 21st Jul 2021


Settings

11:42am, 20 Jul 2021
It really isn't remotely sexy, but I thought I'd let you know that I've been tidying up the settings page. There were various settings spread out through the site, so I've just brought them all together in one place. I've tried to categorise them in a way that makes sense.

Phwoar, look at the lovely categories:

fetcheveryone.com/user-settings.php

There are still some inconsistencies. For example, some of the pages have a button to save changes at the bottom, whereas others will just update when you tick or untick a box. And the buttons probably all look a bit different from each other too :-) But hopefully it's an 'all under one roof' option that makes things a bit easier to find.

If you think there are any other settings that should be brought into this section, do let me know in the comments. I've left the game settings within the games themselves, and I think that's ok for now.

EDIT: if you're looking for your settings when this blog has sunk beneath the waves, there's a "Your Account Settings" link on your user profile, and also a link on the help page.
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Comments

  • Nice. Will the HR settings end up in here at some point, too?
    Sigh
    11:48am, 20th Jul 2021
  • They already are. Under Training Options.
    fetcheveryone
    11:49am, 20th Jul 2021
  • It all looks good. Thanks. :)
    Ness
    12:22pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • Looks good, thanks.
    chunkywizard
    12:27pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • Thanks, and apologies! muppet
    Sigh
    12:28pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • Oh my. I went to have a look at the link, scrolled down and then panicked as it automatically (or stupid phone Jiggery pokery) sent me to the unsubscribe page as it was the last item in the scroll bar when I whooshed download it….. 🤪🤪🤪 thank goodness for back buttons!
    phal
    12:36pm, 20th Jul 2021
  • Just FYI, Change You Avatar and Unsubscribe navigate you away from the page with the settings list. One can always choose Back, but common navigation would keep the setting embedded in page with navigation still on left. Good to bring them all together though. Nice tidy up. More tidying than I've done in the last week/month/year! :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    1:34pm, 20th Jul 2021


A heart rate question

11:09am, 19 Jul 2021
As things stand, there are four HR boundaries that you can set:

Resting
Easy
Threshold
Max

Aside: I have tended to set my own Easy value to 70%WHR, and Threshold to 85%WHR - but I know some of you prefer to use %MHR as your basis for setting both these values.

Anyway... my plan (feature request 237) is to introduce five HR zones, so instead you'll get:

Resting
Z1
Z2
Z3
Z4
Z5
Max

The question is... if I transfer all the settings from the old format to the new, is there a consensus for whether Easy should equate to Z1, and Threshold to Z5? Or is it more likely that you'd want Easy = Z2, and Threshold = Z4, or something like that? Whatever the choice, I can interpolate values for the other zones, and then give you the option to change them.

In theory it shouldn't matter too much, because like I said, you'll be able to nudge the Z's around as much as you like. The proportion spent in each zone will be recalculated on the fly for your current and historic training anyway. But I just thought I'd ask.
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Comments

  • Personally, I’d go for 2 and 4, so as to remain consistent with the zones on my Garmin.

    support.garmin.com
    FergusG
    11:15am, 19th Jul 2021
  • Consistency with the Garmin zones,as Fergus said, would be good

    :)
    Rosehip
    11:18am, 19th Jul 2021
  • Thanks, and what they said ^^^^
    Sigh
    11:20am, 19th Jul 2021
  • So long as you do a proper max HR test.
    Ocelot Spleens
    11:35am, 19th Jul 2021
  • Agree with five zones as per Garmin. Whether they are set correctly or not by the user is another matter 😂
    Rrunner
    11:41am, 19th Jul 2021
  • Personally my easy equates to Z1 and Z2 and threshold to Z4 (I only very rarely hit Z5!!)
    Autumnleaves
    11:45am, 19th Jul 2021
  • 2 & 4 sound good to me.
    Fenland Flier
    11:49am, 19th Jul 2021
  • I agree. Same as Garmin
    laterunner
    12:01pm, 19th Jul 2021
  • 1 - warm up, 2 - easy, 3 - aerobic, 4 - tempo, 5 - threshold

    Not sure of the point of a zone higher than threshold? Once you are over the lactate threshold I don't think there is much differentiation in training effect.
    flanker
    12:25pm, 19th Jul 2021
  • Five zones, and then have the website do the calc for you based on your chosen "approach" (e.g. HRR vs maxHR) would seem the most common approach. Toggle option for which version to choose, set %age bands for each of the 5 zones (e.g. 50-59, 60-69 etc) and calculate it all from the RHR and maxHR (as necessary). I'd not give them names as it could be controversial, just Z1, Z2 etc works for me.
    larkim
    12:47pm, 19th Jul 2021
  • I think I agree with flanker, 2+5
    StuH
    1:16pm, 19th Jul 2021
  • I have easy up to the top end of z2 and threshold at the top end of z4
    chunkywizard
    1:56pm, 19th Jul 2021
  • If we say that threshold = Z4, then I can definitely see a use for "above threshold" = Z5. Yes, there may be no beneficial training effect beyond that point, but if you're doing threshold runs, and you're getting a lot of Z5 action, surely that's a sign that you're wasting energy? And therefore, it's handy to know. Cut your Z5 whilst maintaining Z4, and run at threshold for longer.
    fetcheveryone
    2:25pm, 19th Jul 2021
  • If threshold = lactate threshold then Z5 means you are anaerobic and there is a definitive benefit in training in Z5.
    chunkywizard
    3:20pm, 19th Jul 2021
  • ^that too :-)
    fetcheveryone
    4:20pm, 19th Jul 2021
  • What everyone said about 1-5 in line with Garming.

    I call Z5 "gasping eyeballs out on stalks" anyway....
    3M
    5:02pm, 19th Jul 2021
  • Z1 Z2 easy sounds right although I very rarely am able to stay "proper easy" Z1 ! Z4 is my anaerobic threshold while Z5 is for short distances/ brief spells within a run. All comments are helpful above..thanks fetch!
    steve45
    12:54pm, 20th Jul 2021


Sleepy Shuffle?

11:35am, 18 Jul 2021
I got out of bed at 5.45 this morning (set alarm for 5, but fell asleep again). I wanted to get my long run done before (a) it got too hot, and (b) the boy woke up.

By the time I’d had a cup of tea and had a successful trip to the bathroom, it was 6.30 when I set out.

Mercifully, the Erewash Canal is a largely north-south affair, so I got lots of shade from the already warm sun.

And for the first time in this long run build up, I took some fuel with me (Haribo jelly babies - delicious!) and popped one every 2.5 miles to make sure I had a steady stream of renewable energy. It felt like they were a help, but today’s route was an easier one by far, compared to last week’s hillier run. I did this route a fortnight ago though, so I was pleased to see a lower beats/mile figure this time round.

I’ve been stuck on 12 milers for about a month now, so it was great to get past that. First goal was to get to 13.1 miles, to complete my Sheepy Shuffle Half Marathon. Go Google it, and I dare you not to be enchanted and reaching for your money box to enter. Here I am at 13.1 - getting a bit hot by this point:



I could have gone straight home from there, but 14 was winking at me, so I chucked in a little detour. By a mere 0.03 miles, it’s my longest run since Abingdon Marathon in 2018 😀

Happily I got home about 20 mins before the boy woke up, so we’ve just had croissants, and are both sitting in front of a fan, trying not to cook.

I’ve also posted on the local FB group about getting distance markers on the canal, and have had a really positive discussion with a lady from the Canal and River Trust.

All I need now is a big hug with Katie, but I’ll have to wait til this evening for that.

Whatever your Sunday brings, I hope it’s good. You can do it.
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Comments

  • Great running Fetch. I left Rr Towers at just after 5 this morning for a 15 miler. My it was hot by 6:30!

    Just sat in the park now with Mini Rr waiting to take her to a party then I'm going home to eat food. All of it.

    Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.
    Rrunner
    11:53am, 18th Jul 2021
  • A good distance in this heat, well done that man.
    Fenland Flier
    11:58am, 18th Jul 2021
  • Good running! I was melting at 7am on a shortish run.
    Garfield
    12:42pm, 18th Jul 2021
  • Nine o'clock race start was a mistake. Oof.
    RichHL
    1:16pm, 18th Jul 2021
  • Excellent, well done!
    Sigh
    1:26pm, 18th Jul 2021
  • A successful bathroom trip is essential for a trouble free run. No joke. Great work fetch 🧔
    TBR (TheBeardRunner)
    1:47pm, 18th Jul 2021
  • Big respect for running that distance in such heat. It was boiling even at 8am.
    Rascal
    3:42pm, 18th Jul 2021
  • Great running 😀😀😀
    phal
    4:35pm, 18th Jul 2021
  • Great running
    Ness
    5:36pm, 18th Jul 2021
  • Fabulous mileage Fetch. Hope your Sunday has been as amazing as mine.
    runnerbean
    6:15pm, 18th Jul 2021
  • Well done!
    LindsD
    7:19pm, 18th Jul 2021
  • Good running. Should we be concerned you seem to be turning into RichHL? (Should you?!)
    flanker
    9:54am, 19th Jul 2021
  • I wouldn't have recognised you from this photo! Quite envious of your running form.
    Helegant
    10:48am, 19th Jul 2021


365 graph

1:43pm, 16 Jul 2021
There's been some interest in the 365 day graph since I posted mine on social meeeee-ja. Here's mine again - it shows 17 years of data!



I was pleased with it because I am hopefully heading towards a bit of a mileage peak, assuming nothing falls off :-) It's a nice way to look back, to remind yourself of what was going on during the peaks and troughs.

One of the bits of feedback was that it was difficult to find.

There are two routes to it:

1) go to Train, and look at your row of totals at the top of the page. Click the '365' one.
2) NEW there's a link to it under Train > Summary & Analysis.

or the third way is to just click this link:

fetcheveryone.com/training-365.php

No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

I've also added a new option (see drop down box above the graph) that allows you to switch from distance to time. Swimming mileage takes way longer to accumulate than biking mileage, so it can get a bit lost on a distance graph that includes all your sports. But switching to time is great for levelling the playing field.

Have a great Friday - please don't accidentally cook yourself.
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Comments

  • That’s great. Thanks, Fetch. Hope you have a lovely weekend. 😁
    Ness
    1:59pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • The time thing is really cool. Would it be possible to have total training time. The TTT thread would love that
    NDWDave
    2:03pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • Lol Dave. He must think we're collaborating! Or ganging up on him! :-O I just said same in TTTT thread AND created a Feature Request for just that! Thanks Fetch! :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    2:08pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • Ah - I just had a look at the TTTT and noticed it had been posted there first : )
    NDWDave
    2:15pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • I use this graph quite a bit.
    SPR
    2:34pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • How are you getting the image to share?
    SPR
    2:37pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • Great, thank you!
    clare1976
    2:46pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • SPR - just screenshots atm.
    fetcheveryone
    2:49pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • And that's just one of the reasons why Fetch Everyone is so great...one comment on a blog and the next day, ta dah!!
    Pegg
    3:06pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • More nice tweaks :-)
    Sigh
    3:10pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • Is it just me and my pitiful swimming mileage or is the blue line (standard Fetch colour so I get that) really hard to see against the dark grey background? Otherwise - liking this a lot - and don't recall seeing it before.
    CumbriAndy
    3:22pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • No, you’re right, it is a little tricky to see. I’ll see if I can adjust the background colour to improve things.
    fetcheveryone
    3:25pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • Can you add a Time option to this thing please: fetcheveryone.com/training-summary-annualcomparison.php ?
    zp
    3:31pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • Hiya - why do I only see 10 years on mine. I have logged runs since 2009
    Bamber
    5:33pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • Oooh I'd never found this. More stats for me to geek over. 😁
    Sushi
    6:53pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • I really like this. Thank you, Fetch.
    RichHL
    8:12pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • Nice changes - how about including the date for the peak mileages. It may be obvious for your highest mileage sport, but for a lower mileage sport the line can be very flat and not at all easy to see where about the peak value occurred. Looks like enough space ( even on mobile ) to widen the boxes to take a date.
    K5 Gus
    8:55pm, 16th Jul 2021
  • I love this! Amazing feature.
    2triornot2tri
    4:22am, 17th Jul 2021


Slipping on ma noob shoes

11:21am, 15 Jul 2021
Morning!

I'm on Fetch every single day, and it's safe to say that I know where to find most things :-) You'd hope so, wouldn't you? But my experience of navigating a site that I've visited every day for about 17 years is not exactly typical. It's easy to forget that there are people reading this who may be visiting the site for the very first time.

I did an interesting exercise a couple of weeks ago. I sat my boy in front of my laptop, and directed him to the home page. I told him to pretend that a friend had recommended FE to him, and that he was to try to sign up. It was fascinating to watch, and I made a load of notes for small adjustments I could make.

A quick example from my experiment with the boy. Once you get past the first sign up page, there's a page with four checkboxes on it. They allow you to opt in to various types of email (race guide, notifications, newsletters and ads). He's grown up in a world where all the links are paw-print sized, so he was clicking the *row* and not the checkbox. It was a ten minute job for me to make the rows clickable; and doesn't change the experience for those of us who know that ticks go in boxes :-)

I've mentioned it before, but I've recently read "Don't Make Me Think, Revisited" by Steve Krug https://amzn.to/3ksNGsO. If you've ever been responsible for the success of a website, I'd highly recommend it. The core principle is that if you can avoid hurting someone's brain when they use your site, they will enjoy the experience and come back for more :-) And on the theme of obviousness, 84 of the top 100 users of the site (by page views - see fetcheveryone.com/hitcounter.php ) make some sort of donation to the site, so it really makes sense to avoid hurting everyone's brains :-)

Here's one that came up as a result of reading the book. It's a small change, but one that will hopefully help people to navigate the site. If you've noticed a few ghostly goings on in the menus up at the top of the page, that was just me, faffing about :-)

Here's a screenshot from a couple of weeks ago, in which you can see how the site menu used to look:



The page I took this from was a leaderboard page that you get to from a race listing. But there's nothing in the way the menu looks to give you any sort of feedback about where you are in the site. Ok, that's not totally true. Because it was a page from the 'Race' section, the relevant sub-menu is showing in that pale yellow bar just beneath the main red menu bar.

But unless you know about all of that, I don't think it was very helpful:

(1) There's absolutely no obvious visual indication of which part of the site you are in; and
(2) it's not particularly clear that the sub-menu is there because you're in a particular section.

If you arrived at that example page, it would take a bit of thinking to work out how it fitted in to the site as a whole. With a bit of playing about, you might go on to work out that mousing over the menu items will show you other sections of the site; and that by a process of elimination, you're in the 'Race' section. But who wants to have to work all that out before they've even sussed out what the site is about?

The updated desktop menu hopefully illustrates the section you're in, and leads you toward that sub-menu too, because the highlighted section colour should match up with the sub-menu colour. And they say that change is not good ;-) I hope you like it.
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Comments

  • I did notice that change, and I like it, thanks! I remember that when I first joined it took me a while to get used to the menu/sub-menu options, so hopefully it's better for noobs now.

    The worst site I have to navigate at the moment is an Extended ECM one for amending metadata on company documents. Horrible.
    Sigh
    11:31am, 15th Jul 2021
  • I noticed it as soon as I looked at the site and I love it - well done you :-)
    Elsie Too
    11:31am, 15th Jul 2021
  • nice little changes there. Keep up the good work :-)
    chunkywizard
    11:37am, 15th Jul 2021
  • I noticed the change this morning too and thought "oh that's good" and it is! 😀
    Rrunner
    11:58am, 15th Jul 2021
  • Noticed something was different - thought it was just curved corners - but did like it
    MisterTea
    12:14pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • Yes, liking the new tab indicators, very helpful, well done. Good continuous improvement work there too. Good stuff! :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    12:16pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • I like the new tab indicators too. :)
    Ness
    12:20pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • I like the new tab indicator, but am less keen on the smaller menu fonts.
    AndyS
    12:40pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • I noticed too (I am always quite pleased when I have spotted something before you blog about it!)
    Autumnleaves
    12:54pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • Looks good, much better UX. *cough* white text on grey background in pantherz *cough* ;-)
    Sam Jelfs
    1:00pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • I was wondering when the tabs had first appeared. Interesting how you're having your boy helping with UX improvements! :)
    Garfield
    1:01pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • nice
    DingDocMerrily
    2:00pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • You posted your 365 day average mileage on twitter...which I love! But I can only get back to it by going back to the tweet and using the link. I can't easily see how to get to it from any menu?
    Pegg
    2:09pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • @Pegg - if you go to Train, and look for the 365 day total in the bar at the top, that's clickable. Another usability insight for me to think about :-)
    fetcheveryone
    2:10pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • I had a look at the book reviews on Amazon as I thought it might be a good present for my son .......... the reviews are very "varied" so not sure now.
    D2
    2:29pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • I am loving all of this.
    LindsD
    2:35pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • But really pleased that the white on yellow has gone. And also chuffed that I'm 66 in the user list :)
    LindsD
    2:35pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • Sorry to be a nuisance but I'm always on my phone on Fetch (android, use chrome browser). I can't find the 365 rolling totals for love nor money... keep searching and can't see it on any menus, top bars or graph section? Thanks!
    clare1976
    7:55pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • Clare - go to Train, and look at the summary totals across the top. One of them is your current 365. Click it :-) I will see what I can do to make it more visible :-)
    fetcheveryone
    7:59pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • Sorry it's genuinely not there (that I can see, even when 8 turn the phone to landscape. Can email u screenshots if that helps?
    clare1976
    8:58pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • Sam Jelfs
    8:58pm, 15th Jul 2021
  • Thanks Sam! I can see it via that link. Just haven't got the option to navigate to it myself!
    clare1976
    9:04pm, 15th Jul 2021


Meatronomes

3:22pm, 11 Jul 2021
^my new term for pacers! Although Urban Dictionary has a different definition :-)

Just a little blog to let you all know that I'm back safely from our week in Devon. Apologies to everyone who gets notifications of my training - we walked literally everywhere (parked the car on the day we arrived, and didn't move it until it was time to go home). I logged 40+ miles of walking, and 11 miles of running. The latter was hard work because of the altitude. There was altitude EVERYWHERE.

I also did some swooooooshing down the river to the beach. A third of a mile in less than ten minutes, doing not much more than bobbing like a cork; then walking back through the dunes to plop into the water and do it again :-)

Two cream teas! A gastrodog from the food bus on Bantham Beach, which was awesome. I need to recreate it.

Lots of doing nothing, and feeling relaxed. If I could move us down there, I most definitely would. But that'd give me a dream job in a dream location, so I mustn't get greedy.

If you've been in touch about anything, I'll hopefully work through some responses tomorrow and over the next few days. Hippy hugs from me.
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Comments

  • Hopefully cream then jam if you were in Devon
    NDWDave
    3:36pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • I'm firmly in the "get in my belly" camp, rather than adhering to a specific order :-)
    fetcheveryone
    3:38pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • Sounds just what the doctor ordered!
    minardi
    3:41pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • The gastrobus looks very good indeed.
    Ocelot Spleens
    3:47pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • Every sensible person knows it's butter, then jam, then cream no matter what county or country you're in ;)
    Angus Clydesdale
    3:53pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • Remember, greed is good :-)
    Diogenes
    4:04pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • Glad you had a nice (and well earned) break!
    Sigh
    4:04pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • Sounds like a lovely holiday. :)
    Ness
    4:05pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • Sounds like you had a great time!
    Rrunner
    4:11pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • Swooshing down the river sounds great fun!
    gardengirl
    4:15pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • Hooray for holibobs! 😍😍😍 Sounds ace 😀
    phal
    4:45pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • Sounds wonderful :-)
    1step2far
    5:18pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • So pleased you had a relaxing time.
    LindsD
    5:26pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • I also like the "one, then another" school of thought when it comes to scones :)
    Angus Clydesdale
    5:40pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • So glad you had a proper break. Sounds ace.
    jennywren
    6:18pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • Sounds lovely.
    Sushi
    6:25pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • Sounds like a perfect holiday!
    Carpathius
    8:15pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • Sounds perfect! Spread a layer of jam then a big dollop of clotted cream, obvs! X
    clare1976
    8:15pm, 11th Jul 2021
  • That break sounds just perfect. Glad you had a good time and welcome home xx
    Corrah
    3:07am, 12th Jul 2021
  • Top hols, sounds great. :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    10:28am, 12th Jul 2021
  • Nice to hear you had a good time, well deserved
    D2
    11:21am, 12th Jul 2021
  • Sounds like a good holiday
    Night-owl
    4:47pm, 12th Jul 2021


World's Sexiest Bridges

11:00am, 1 Jul 2021
You know how sometimes you do stuff. And then a little while later, you realise you've turned into that geography teacher. The one with a bizarre fascination for train spotting that you just couldn't understand? Nice enough man, but in the nicest way possible, wtf?

In unrelated news, on my run yesterday, I took a picture of every bridge I ran past on the Erewash Canal. I noticed that they are numbered; and if something is numbered, to me that means three things:

1) at some point, they were considered so uninteresting that they didn't get names.
2) in time, they'll acquire that character.
3) you can try to collect the set.

Old cars, rusty machinery, the cranes in the harbour in Bristol. All good examples of stuff that often gets numbered, and then fast forward fifty years, and suddenly, crane 32 is still standing. Number Five is alive! Inside Number 9. Herby = 53. Area 51 (no-one asks about area 50 - that's where I'd land if I was an alien).

It's all just chance - but IS IT? Wooooooo :-) Yes.

Anyway... it was long run day yesterday, giving me the best chance of seeing how many bridges I could tick off. I joined the canal at bridge 10 in Sandiacre, and made it to bridge 23 in Cotmanhay. On the way back, I took photos of them all (except bridge 16, which I sailed past. It must be special, wooooooo), and it helped me to have something other than miles to tick off.

Unlike my geography teacher, I won't treat you to a detailed slide show, but instead, I've made a little montage of photos here:



I like the way they are all just a little bit different - even the ones that look exactly the same (22 and 23, I'm looking at you). My favourites are the stone ones (especially 12), but I even have a soft spot for the new kid 13A, which carries the M1, because the standard of graffiti is pretty good. Number 11 is our closest bridge, so I have nice memories of doing some magnet fishing there with the boy (a couple of rusty BMX bikes and a DVD player)

I've been trying to find a full list of them online, just to see how many there are. There's plenty of info on the locks (14 of those), but it appears they just numbered the bridges and forgot that I'd be interested. The canal continues for about another 2-3 miles before it reaches the "Great Northern Basin", which is obviously my dream goal. There, the Erewash Canal joins the Cromford Canal, and on to more adventures beyond. There's also some follow-up blogs in this, where I show you bridges 9 through 1; and The Hunt For Bridge 16.

Slightly seriously, it did get me reading a bit about the history of the canal. It was commissioned in 1777. They fired the bloke who built it, because they had to rebuild the top lock due to a "water level calculation error", but it made loads of cash for the Erewash Valley by transporting coal and metal and stuff. Then in the mid 1800's, the railways took over (the track runs right next to the canal - talk about rubbing it in). A bit of a revival in the early 20th century, and then a slow decline until the 1960's when it looked like it was going to get filled in. But luckily a group of dedicated nerds* formed to restore it, and tbh it's pretty lovely now.

Leave me a comment to let me know which bridge you think is the finest; or to confess to the weird stuff that you do that gets you through your long runs; or simply to offering counselling.

*I mean this as the highest compliment.
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Comments

  • I have a bit of a thing about bridges, especially canal bridges. My favourite from your photos is number 21.
    SarahWoo
    11:04am, 1st Jul 2021
  • Be careful what you wish for. Your dream goal will put you in Langley Mill, behind KFC!

    I recognize every one of those bridges, on my long runs I access the canal at number 23 and turn left into Long Eaton. I turn for home at the bridge just after Topps Tiles and run back to Langley Mill.
    Nicholls595
    11:08am, 1st Jul 2021
  • I like the view through bridges - I like the way the different shapes frame the view. There is one bridge on a regular walk I particularly like as it has ivy growing all over it and hanging down around the arch :)
    DoricQuine
    11:10am, 1st Jul 2021
  • Mrs Nico was really chuffed when we got this far
    Nicholls595
    11:11am, 1st Jul 2021
  • I like number 19. Got a soft spot for canals too.
    Corrah
    11:13am, 1st Jul 2021
  • A fine collection; I'm rather taken by the curves of 19 and 12 - maybe 19 edges it because the apparent re-building might be hiding a story.
    sallykate
    11:16am, 1st Jul 2021
  • I like the shape of 19 - the arch is a bit steeper than your favourite 12.
    Elsie Too
    11:17am, 1st Jul 2021
  • It's maybe just the angle, but number 14 appears to have an air of mystery to it. Maybe from some post-apocalyptic world
    PK
    11:19am, 1st Jul 2021
  • I have to confess to having nodded at every bridge while saying its number out loud on the GUC from London to Long Buckby and will be continuing on from there to Birmingham in a couple of weeks' time. The numbers with a letter after are generally a bit shit as they're afterthoughts!
    mulbs
    11:20am, 1st Jul 2021
  • Number 23, please, because that looks like the Bridge Inn!
    ♪♫ Synge ♪♫
    11:32am, 1st Jul 2021
  • I ran on the Oxford Canal north of Banbury a couple of months ago and enjoyed the bridges and the lock gates in equal measure.
    ♪♫ Synge ♪♫
    11:33am, 1st Jul 2021
  • Yep. I ran all 87 miles of the Kennet and Avon plus a chunk of the Grand Union and the numbered locks and bridges are very handy - both for navigation and motivation. Counting down from 100 to 1…
    NDWDave
    11:47am, 1st Jul 2021
  • No 17 looks solid and reliable, though it does seem to having some work done on it.
    jabberknit
    11:53am, 1st Jul 2021
  • It's not for nothing that there is a Thames Bridges Challenge, and that it has been exported to other places.
    ChrisHB
    11:57am, 1st Jul 2021
  • I like bridges and have on a few occasions taken a detour just so I can run over the 5 in our village.
    GimmeMedals
    12:00pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • 12 or 19 are my faves.
    Sigh
    12:05pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • I hope you're going to join us on the inaugural Bristol Bridges Challenge :-)
    LazyDaisy
    12:10pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • Having run the GUCR, it's all about counting bridges, it's all there is to tell you where you are...
    Sam Jelfs
    12:15pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • I love canals, and bridges. This is heaven.
    LindsD
    12:20pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • number 18 for this llama
    Llamadance
    1:05pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • I like number 16 best
    Diogenes
    1:34pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • There’s a section of the Leeds-Liverpool canal in Lancs where we had regular family weekend walks growing up. The blackened stone hump bridges, only one vehicle wide, are my absolute favourite bridges.
    Raggedy runner
    1:40pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • 18 I think, might have been 19 but for the shoddy work on it. Maybe I'll finish my own (two years overdue) bridge blog.
    Dvorak
    1:49pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • Round our way, the canal bridges are often named as well :-) A bit of light reading ;-) canalplan.uk
    stilldreaming
    1:50pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • I must be your geography teacher because I've noticed that you have (by accident or design) made each photo "just a little bit different" by placing its number in a different place in the photo, even if it is by just a tiny bit. :-p

    Nice bridge spotting though. :-)
    Flatlander
    2:44pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • All bridges are sexy. Fact.
    McGoohan
    2:59pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • I do love a bridge
    Night-owl
    3:30pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • Thought you'd turned into greppers for a moment ;-) when do we see the top 10 or are they too sexy for us to handle :)
    KOG
    4:14pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • I lead a group bike ride called Fen Bridges, we go over at least 50 in 80 miles. I haven't noticed whether they are numbered though.
    MsG
    4:16pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • Download ArcGis Explorer app and the CRT Canal Reference Map that goes with it.

    You’ll then see lots of details of every bridge, lock and culvert they own. You’ll even see how short the grass should be…

    One for proper needs 🤓🤓🤓🤓
    folkieboater
    5:05pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • **Nerds**
    folkieboater
    6:14pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • 19 and 12 have very pleasing curves
    jennywren
    7:05pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • 12 cos it will make an interesting reflection on the water. I’m going to look closer at our canal bridges to see if they’re numbered :-)
    Alice the Camel
    8:15pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • Every bridge, and indeed every "thing", has or develops its own individual character. (This may or may not be what Gerard Manley Hopkins called "inscape").
    Columba
    9:52pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • I'm 12 & 19 too, it's all about the curve
    Qwerty
    10:43pm, 1st Jul 2021
  • I’m also a 19 fan. Where is bridge 11 it looks very much like the bridge that mark used to live right next to (his old house was on mill lane Sandiacre) town houses that back onto canal !
    runningmumof3boys
    12:04am, 2nd Jul 2021
  • An interesting collection. No canals round here, I have to make do with WWII pill boxes.
    Reiver
    7:58am, 2nd Jul 2021
  • I like #20. I like the right angles, it's very utilitarian and brutalist.
    Wednesday Mouse
    11:50am, 2nd Jul 2021
  • 19 for the rebuild
    Ocelot Spleens
    1:24pm, 2nd Jul 2021
  • I like 12 but the discolouration is putting me off a bit, so I might have to plump for 21A. I lived next to a canal bridge once and a visiting friend had to take the number and details for her dad, who ‘collects’ canal bridges, or something.
    cathrobinson
    1:40pm, 2nd Jul 2021
  • I like 19. :-)
    1step2far
    8:50am, 3rd Jul 2021
  • Agree with cathrobinson for bridge 12. Elegant simplicity, but the the repointing lets it down. And 21A is a close second for me, but your composition of 23 gets the prize.
    Nice to see a couple of bridges make it into ROTD recently, including one of my locals (Thanks!)
    fetcheveryone.com/routes-view.php?id=1825130
    _andy
    11:51am, 6th Jul 2021


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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
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
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
[Untitled]
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)
[Untitled]
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








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