Average Pace - to the summary page (Read 1908 times)

I would love to see added - the average pace for the day, week, month and year on the main summary page. It lists our mileage and total hours but I would to have it display the average pace. Thank you.

Definitely in the 'strongly recommend' category on my RA log wish list. I'm more of an intuitive runner and, like lemondzurich, find pace over time data (week, month and year -to date)an important metric and a great motivator. To see this on the initial summary page would be a big plus.

Let me throw my 2 cents in, this is a very important part of my measuring my progress. Please please try and add this in and this log will be perfect!

Hi guys, This request has been made many times so the demand is there. However, I do not wish to add it because it does not offer much value in the summary page. Please hear me out before you send me hate mail... Right now, the summary shows 6 weeks and 6 months because I felt that was a good representation of your immediate past. I didn't include more rows because it's somewhat computationally heavy to sum all the entries and I'll try to optimize it for the next release. Your training varies from week to week and month to month due to many factors such as your training plan and injuries. The variations will make near term trend projection difficut if not impossible unless the improvements are dramatic. In other words, 6 data points are not enough to give you the information to determine if you're improving. In the next version of the log, I'm planning to let you specify your default graph so you can create a graph that will give you the pace over, say, a year. That will give you a better idea of your progress than having pace in the summary. eric

Well, I guess that's it, even though many have requested it Eric isn't going to put it in. Trent, maybe I am not the runner you are, I don't measure hard and easy days, I just run and track my progress. How does it help me? By looking at what my miles and pace were at the same time last year, I can measure if I have run farther or faster. I sense a little elitist runner attitude there Trent ("exceptional runners/mediocre runners"), sorry if I got that wrong, we are all runners, and we are just looking for tools to help US check our progress. I guess I am a mediocre runner who is just looking for a log that is similar to the one we had at CR.

No elitist attitude here, and I am fairly mediocre myself. I apologize if I came across that way. It is simply not the case that overall average pace really means very little, especially in "tracking progress". There is so much variability in pace for so many different reasons that the average can be skewed for reasons having nothing to do with ability. To track your progress, look at your race pace and compare them from year to year. Want to see if you can run further, look at total miles (which is not the same as pace). And, as I have said, sometimes with skill (i.e., progress) your average pace slows but your race pace increases. I am sure that if Eric had infinite resources he would put this in. He's a good guy that way. But given the huge amount of stuff he has on his plate, including some really really great features and tweaks, this is lower priority. MTA: really. I apologize for any elitist attitude. I run loads of average miles, but am always falling apart in races...

Hi Eric and Trent and Jim and Drew, Firstly I want to apologize if I offended anyone with my "elitist runner" accusations. It just read that way to me, but based on your subsequent posts I realize I was wrong. Eric, I am not asking you to make a CR clone, I appreciate all you have done and thank you as I now have a place to go now that we have been abandoned by CR. I am looking forward to the new graphing tool as it appears it will be able to accomplish what I am asking for. I don't need the info on the summary page, just as long as there is a way to access the information. Thanks again and have a great day.

Oh no, being called an elitist runner is like being carded when you are 30 Thanks for the compliment

George, please don't feed the animals. (And welcome to RA!)