Computer program to track mileage/workouts

hey, i'm the nerd who wrote this thing... i just wanted to add a little to what TJ wrote above. i've worked really hard on this program the last two summers (alongside TJ and my other beta-testing friends) and i think it really can do a lot of things -- what tj mentioned, plus graphing multiple things between any two days, detailed summaries of basically everything you enter, and a really sweet pic of my high school xc coach's dog in the about box. i know there are things that you guys will want that we haven't thought of yet, which is why i set up the webpage (www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~weil). if people begin to use it and have suggestions for things to add, i'll definitely implement what they say and then put the new version up on the site. so it's free (and always will be), and it will grow to have the features you tell me you want. i'd love if people could give it a try and tell me what they think. also, if you have any questions about how to use it or anything else, my email is on the site's contact page, and i'd be glad to hear from you. thanks!

Kevin

p.s. for any programmers out there, the source code is up on the page as well, and you're welcome to it.

A Mac user says: Bummer you limited yourself to Windows. What kind of fly-by-night school is MIT anyway?

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You're right, I totally wish I had a version of this that ran on a Mac, but I have no idea how to write code for a Mac! Interfacing with the system is totally different... that said, though, the source code is available, and if anyone wanted to port it to a Mac (or Linux or whatever) I'd be behind them 100%

hi,

what can it graph? can it graph more than one thing at once? and can i save my graphs to a file?

the screenshots on your page look nice btw

tim

Downloaded it. Will give it a look.

OK I downloaded the program and had to get mfc70.dll I did that and now I get an error message that says

failed to initialize properly (oxc0000005)

Can anybody help?

where did you get mfc70.dII or whatever?

cause I get that error message as well

same here.

I got the mfc70.dll from doing a google search and then went to the site:

www.dll-files.com/

...

Hopefully someone a lot smarter than me can figure out how to get this to work. It looks pretty cool. I have been using

www.myrunlog.com

for about a year but it would be nice to have a program on my computer rather than logging onto a website.

1) Go back to his original link page and download the version: "Executable with DLLs"

2) Using your unzip program, save all of the files to a folder on your C: drive

3) Copy the DLL files to your c:\windows\system32 or c:\winnt\system32 or whatever. If you don't understand this, you may just be able to copy to root drive "c:\" using the windows explorer

4) Create a link on your desktop to the Triathlog executable

5) Start the program

Strange, all of the slashes are usurped by html above ////

Hi,

I'm really sorry about all the missing DLL files and stuff... I guess they were on the computers of the friends that tested this with me, so I didn't realize a lot of this. I put up a new version to download at

www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~weil/code.html

. If it says you don't have mfc70.dll or anything like that, try downloading the version that says "TriathLog with system DLLs." That version just comes with two extra DLLs, and when you unzip it, move those two DLLs to C:\WinNT\system32 (or C:\Windows\System32 -- depending on your version of windows you'll have one of these directories but not both. There is a file in the zip file called "before you run.txt" that explains this in more detail). After those DLLs are sitting in the directory, run the program again and it should work properly. Again, I'm sorry about all this, and please let me know (via the forum or you can get my email from the site) if there are still any problems!

Kevin

Kevin

the fix works.

In response to aging runner 214,

the program can graph as many graphs as you want on the same set of axes, and you can have 16 sets of axes per graphing window. the things you can graph are

date

running minutes

running miles

running pace

num running workouts

biking minutes

biking miles

biking pace

num biking workouts

same stuff for swimming

same stuff for strength work/weights (except no miles :) )

hours of sleep

temperature

weight

heartrate

there's also a item called "formula" in the graph window, and if you click that you can enter formulas. One I use is [running minutes - 7 * running miles]. graphing that shows how I've been over/under 7 min pace on my recent training runs. of course, you can be wacky too and graph like the arctangent of your hours of sleep squared :) you can save your formulas and re-open them too, so you don't have to re-enter things each time.

and yes, it saves graphs to either .bmp or .jpg format (I can't remember which, and can't check because I'm at work).

Also, if anyone using this would like to receive periodic updates as the program gets improved (these would be infrequent, not a spam-your-inbox type thing) please email me (get my email from my site above, I'd put it here but I don't want the spam bots that browse these forums to get it) with the subject "TriathLog news" or something similar, and you'll be added.

Thanks for your interest!

Kevin

Thanks for making that available to everyone.

in reply to myself, i just remembered that it writes to .gif file actually :)

Hey akevdog,

I'd contemplated writing a software running log for a long time and have never gotten around to starting the design. I downloaded your app just to see it work. The GUI looks very professional but I haven't really used it at all, so I'm not sure of its usability. But so far so good. You aren't pimping any hidden spyware in that code, are you? ;-) What Windows OS's are supported? Why'd you choose MFC over, say Java?

Thanks. Keep up the good work.