Enter your race distances correctly -- Eric's log is smart!

jEfFgObLuE

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posted: 6/28/2007 at 10:26 AM

Ok, not looking for technical support, just a geeky pet peeve. Folks, when you enter in your race distances (or workout distances for that matter), you can enter 5km or 5000m -- it doesn't have to be 3.1 miles. Eric's log is so smart that it still calculates the min/mile correctly, and even adds up your weekly mileage totals in miles, even if you enter your race distance in kilometers. I guess it bugs me when I look at people's logs and see their PR's for 3.1 miles, 6.2 miles, 9.3 miles, etc. Enter 5k, 10k, 15k. etc. No one asks you what your 6.2 mile PR is, they ask you what your 10k PR is! Sorry for the nitpickiness, but what are engineer geeks for? All you Sgt. Hulkas out there feel free to tell me to "lighten up, Francis!"

When you're on your deathbed, you won't be wishing that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will be wishing that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.

Wingz

posted: 6/28/2007 at 11:44 AM

Lighten up, Jeff. What difference does it make to your running how someone chooses to record their race times? If it bothers you that much, why not stop looking at other people's PR's? Tongue

Roads were made for journeys...

jEfFgObLuE

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posted: 6/28/2007 at 11:56 AM

Hey Wingz, that cat avatar of yours has some teeth and claws! Clowning around

Yes, I know it's none of my business. Which is probably why my wife hates it when she's on the computer and I'm in the same room, 'cuz I'm all like, "hey, you should do it this way -- it's a lot better." The first step to improvement is admitting you have a problem, which I'm doing. As for the rest of you, fix your damn logs! Clowning around

When you're on your deathbed, you won't be wishing that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will be wishing that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.

DrewEOB

Idiot

posted: 6/28/2007 at 12:42 PM

I'll admit that if I were to go peeking around a bunch of logs, this would probably bother me, too. But I don't that much (except for Jeff's, of course Wink

), so I guess I'm indifferent. I hope mine are all this way, now that Jeff put the thought in my head. Just what I would expect... a Wolverine messing with a Buckeye.

Yes, I do "run in this." So should you. The weather is never as bad as it seems from behind your office or car window.

mbotti

The Floor Walker

posted: 6/28/2007 at 12:56 PM

Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 6/28/2007 at 10:26 AM:

Eric's log is so smart that it still calculates the min/mile correctly, and even adds up your weekly mileage totals in miles, even if you enter your race distance in kilometers.

Hmmm, well lets see here, if Eric's log was soooo smart then why can't it just convert the 3.1, 6.2, etc into kilometers in the PR section Confused

This way, poor ole Jeff wouldn't have to be annoyed while snooping through our PRs Wink

jEfFgObLuE

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posted: 6/28/2007 at 1:32 PM
modified: 6/28/2007 at 1:32 PM

This is fantastic! I knew I was opening myself up to this when I posted, and you guys haven't let me down. RA rules! Big grin

BTW mbotti, you almost deflected this away from me to Eric. Nice! Therefore -- note to Eric: fix everyone's PR pages so that they don't annoy me anymore! Wink

When you're on your deathbed, you won't be wishing that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will be wishing that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.

mikeymike

posted: 6/28/2007 at 2:26 PM

Quote from mbotti on 6/28/2007 at 12:56 PM:

Hmmm, well lets see here, if Eric's log was soooo smart then why can't it just convert the 3.1, 6.2, etc into kilometers in the PR section This way, poor ole Jeff wouldn't have to be annoyed while snooping through our PRs

Um...doesn't Eric's wicked smaht log already do this? Which means Jeff is now just nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking... Tongue

Runners run.

jEfFgObLuE

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posted: 6/29/2007 at 12:47 AM

Quote from mikeymike on 6/28/2007 at 2:26 PM:

Um...doesn't Eric's wicked smaht log already do this? Which means Jeff is now just nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking...

Eric's wicked smaht log totals up everything correctly, no matter what units you use. Your PR's are how I would do them -- when you ran a 5k race, you entered 5km in the log for that event. I've noticed that a lot of people entered "3.1 miles" as the event distance, so instead of seeing 5km in the PR section, you see "3.1 mile." It's incredibly nitpicky as I've admitted, and yes for the sake of being nitpicky. That's what I do -- I nitpick. Tongue

Ok, and drink anything with alcohol in it and run a few miles here and there.

When you're on your deathbed, you won't be wishing that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will be wishing that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.

eric :)

posted: 6/29/2007 at 7:27 AM

Good golly! Are we still on this? I thought I have some code in there that will convert any 3.1 milers to 5ks on the PR page. It's the same code that recognizes 26.2 or 26.22 as marathons. However, when you list the races of a specific distance, all the 5ks are converted to 3.1 miles because that's your default unit system. Maybe this is where the confusion comes from?

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