Automated Cool Running log import (Read 4466 times)

Hi folks, I spruced up my importer tool to make it a little bit more user friendly and made it publicly accessible. You now can import the log yourself instead of waiting for me to do it for you. The importer is located under the tools tab of your training log. Make sure you only upload the data file from Cool Running and not the Excel file. Since it's automated, you will have to do some post import clean up. More specifically, you may have to rename your shoes because the shoes data is more complex than other logging sites because I'm planning ahead. Other sites may do a better job at importing, but RA is the only place where you can do more analysis with your data. For people that have submitted their logs to me, I will continue to import them. If you don't want to wait, you are more than welcome to do it yourself. No need to notify me that you've imported your own log because when I see data in your log, I will know you've done it. If you have any questions, just drop me a note. eric

It worked!! You are a Computer God!!! Thank you!!

I am most impressed with your site! As a Cool Running "refugee" my import went fine... Thanks! David

there was just a rare server hiccup...wait a minute and try again.

Eric, Just wanted to say thanks !! I never thought it would be so easy. I think I'm going to like it here! Greg

Somebody please help me....How do I get the cgi file from the Coolrunning (or ActiveTrainer) website to my computer? Please? Anyone?

Thanks...Unfortunately, I'm at work and those message boards are "filtered" (though, for some reason this one isn't). I guess I'll wait until I get home...Shoot....I'm bored here at work and figured this would be a good time to get this worked out...

Thanks...Unfortunately, I'm at work and those message boards are "filtered" (though, for some reason this one isn't). I guess I'll wait until I get home...Shoot....I'm bored here at work and figured this would be a good time to get this worked out...

I went to one of the threads for you and came back with this (the following was written by leendert): I found a workaround if you don't have a cookie on your machine that remembered your login information. I'm not sure how long they will work for - I assume Active will shut these backdoors pretty quickly to lock you into their site. I just exported 5 years worth of data - glad it is still there. I had set coolrunning to remember my login information, so I did not need to specify my password and simply got my data by only specifying my username. However, once I cleared my cookies and tried to login using the approach mentioned I could no longer log in. But, I found another workaround, it is a two step process that should work for any one who remembers their username and password. In the URLs below, substitute USERNAME by your user name, and PASSWORD by the password you used on coolrunning. First you have to go through the login process: http://www.coolrunning.com/cgi-bin/register/start_prefs.cgi?UserName=USERNAME&Password=PASSWORD&goAction=login After the log in you will be redirected to the coolrunning home page, but now your login information has been remembered, and you can get to your old training log by going to: http://www.coolrunning.com/cgi-bin/log/display.cgi?u=USERNAME Then go to Tools and use the Download Your Running Log option to save your data (after saving this file, you can open it with excel).