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There's got to be a better way to upload my run data (Read 195 times)

Brilliant


    I've got a really inefficient method of uploading my run data.

     

    I use a Garmin watch.  It's supposed to be able to upload directly to Runkeeper, but for some reason it won't - I've tried to troubleshoot without success.  So I have to upload to the Garmin website, then export to Runkeeper.  And now, thanks to the recent shoe-tracking thread, I know that Running Ahead has better tools than Runkeeper.  So that just added another step, exporting from Runkeeper to Running Ahead.

     

    Is there an easier way to do this, or am I stuck with this process as long as I want to keep both Runkeeper and RA?   (I mainly like Runkeeper b/c some of my friends use it, so that's more of a social thing, commenting on each others' activity, etc.)

     

    How do you handle tracking your run data efficiently?

    HermosaBoy


      Skip the export from Runkeeper.

       

      If you can upload to Garmin, you should be able to upload directly to runningahead.

       

      So, it would be two uploads (one to runkeeper and one to runningahead) but no export from runkeeper...

      And you can quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. Groucho Marx

       

      Rob

      FSBD


        How do you export from runkeeper?  I don't use it anymore now that I have a garmin instead of the app but I wouldn't mind getting my data from there to here.

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        World-losers and world-forsakers,

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        Yet we are the movers and shakers

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        npaden


          You can get your information from runkeeper as follows.

           

          You can export individual workouts with the GPX file or you can export a date range with a ZIP file.  RunningAhead takes both of them.

           

          To do the GPX you look at the individual workout and click on advanced data and it will pop up an option to save the file as GPX.

           

          To get the zip file, click on the little down arrow next to your name up in the top right hand corner.  Then select "settings".

           

          Underneath your profile information there is a little hotlink down at the bottom left corner of the page that says "export data".

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          FSBD


            Thank you npaden

            Now I have all my Data since July 9th when I got runkeeper.

            We are the music makers,

                And we are the dreamers of dreams,

            Wandering by lone sea-breakers,

                And sitting by desolate streams; 

            World-losers and world-forsakers,

                On whom the pale moon gleams:

            Yet we are the movers and shakers

                Of the world for ever, it seems.

            Brilliant


              Skip the export from Runkeeper.

               

              If you can upload to Garmin, you should be able to upload directly to runningahead.

               

              So, it would be two uploads (one to runkeeper and one to runningahead) but no export from runkeeper...

              Brilliant.

               

              I was just able to successfully (and quickly) upload to runningahead.

               

              This makes the 2-step process to Runkeeper even more unappealing.  I'm seriously going to rethink that one.

              FSBD


                While I am asking.  Is there a way to export from mapmyrun?

                Then I can get back to April- ish which would be nice

                We are the music makers,

                    And we are the dreamers of dreams,

                Wandering by lone sea-breakers,

                    And sitting by desolate streams; 

                World-losers and world-forsakers,

                    On whom the pale moon gleams:

                Yet we are the movers and shakers

                    Of the world for ever, it seems.