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

I always liked having that info on Coolrunning, but I agree with Eric (and others) that it isn't a good training gauge. Just in case others have missed it, you can simply take your mileage/time, then go to the Tools tab where there is a pace calculator.

Maybe I am missing something here? The Summary page seems to show my weekly time/distance for the last several weeks, my monthly time/distance for the last several months, my total time/distance for this year, and my total time/distance since I have been logging - and many of you including Eric are saying that it would not be beneficial to show average pace for each of those months, weeks, year, total? Are you kidding me? You really feel it would not add value to see your average pace for the weeks, months, year of this page? Aren't we talking about just adding 14 calcs for this page (6 weeks, 6 months, the year, the total)? I for one would still love to see average pace on the summary page in all the places where it shows a total of time and distance for a given period (week, month, etc.). To me this is more important than the time total. How many miles did I run and at what pace? I would rather see this info on the Summary page than the graph. I don't think I need a graph of the run in the last week or so (I may be old but I can remember how many times I ran in the past week). For that matter - move the weather and messages to the bottom of the summary page so I can see the complete summary without having toi scroll down. Thanks for listening!

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.

This is a repeat, but I'll say again that I don't think having average training pace on the summary is going to be of any help at all. >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 can understand where you are coming from and I agree that being able look back and see what you were doing at a particular point in time can be very useful. However, I don't see how having average training paces on summary page accomplishes that. The key to measuring progress can be seen by looking at your race times. They are really the only true yardstick of progress, imo. Workouts can be sorted by "type" which enables you to look at all your races in chronological order so they are isolated in one place. As you look through them and are interested in seeing what your training was leading up to a particular race, it's right there in your log. Just be sure to make notes of key workouts in the comments so you can go back and review them when you need to. When you consider that average training pace includes races, tempo runs, interval workouts, recovery days, easy runs, moderate runs...the list goes on, it is a virtually meaningless piece of data anyway. I only started recording maintenance and recovery run paces for the purpose of filling in the KA log. For years I've kept them on paper, and for the past 15 in Excel. All I really need to know is what my race times are, and the paces I was running in key workouts. Half the time I don't even write down pace for other days. I just assume that I ran at comfortable pace and don't care what the times were because they really don't matter. That's my opinion anyway, I'm sure there are others who would disagree.

"When you consider that average training pace includes races, tempo runs, interval workouts, recovery days, easy runs, moderate runs...the list goes on, it is a virtually meaningless piece of data anyway." That is, for you Jim and some others here. That dioesn't mean it is a meaningless piece of data for the rest of us runners. I have been running for many years but I just have runs, I don't call them tempo, interval, moderate, etc. I run about 5-6 races a year. Just because it is not a useful tool for you doesn't mean that a lot of us would find it useful. Have a nice day, George

Hmm

A Simple request. =)

The one thing that all of the Average Pace Haters

Haters? Really? Haters? Interesting.

The best log Eric could make is a customizable one.

I would imagine that the "best" log Eric could make is one that actually has value. But what do I know. I'm apparently a "hater".