Running logs

I've made many logs while running

I use a simple excel spreadsheet. Each week gets two rows. The top row is used to describe what I did, the bottom row is strictly for the total of number of miles for each day. In the column at the end of the row, I insert a formula to total the miles for the week, and then at the bottom of that column after the last week of the year, I have a formula that keeps a running total of my total year-to-date miles.

I typically put workouts in bold type; races in green type; off days in red type, This allows me to find pertinent information pretty quickly and easily.

It is nice to have the data there to manipulate, and once you prepare the spreadsheet once, you can use the same base form pretty easily each year.

I do this in addition to Garmin Connect/Strava, which is the simplest way to handle this.

Holy crap you some sort of Excel genius??

geniuses among us wrote:

Holy crap you some sort of Excel genius??

All jokes aside, Smoove is one of the few intellectually-driven posters on this forum, so your sarcasm does more to reveal your own character (deficits).

I'm a big fan of running2win.com. Have had a log on there since high school. iPhone app that's very handy as well.

I've been using RunningAhead.com for 10 years now. I highly recommend it.

On the iPhone I like Runner's Log by FikesFarm. It has tags, filters, statistics. It also has gps, which I don't use.

The tags and filters are genius. I have a tag for the running group I belong to. In a few seconds I was able to pull up the last time the group ran from a particular location, about 5 months prior.

I've been using The Runner's World Training Diary since 1979. Runner's World Magazine wasn't always the joke it's been for the last twenty years.

Slim wrote:

I've been using RunningAhead.com for 10 years now. I highly recommend it.

+1

RunningAhead.com for sure. Their site even lets you do some interesting things with running reports based on your data. Half the other sites out there just hired the guy who does RunningAhead.com anyway.

Definitely have to go with a spreadsheet. One tab for each year. Pop it on to a cloud service that has a mobile app and you can access it from anywhere. If you solely use an online service I would highly, highly advise saving it locally often. I lost all of my high school and early college data when a site went down. Runninglog.net? Something like that. I'd pay quite a bit to get those back.

I agree with those that said use an excel spreadsheet, 1 for each year. over the years I could not count the number of threads involving online logs going down without notice or losing data.

David Hays has already created a VERY good template to use. You can download the template here:

http://davidhays.net/running/runlog/runlog.html

You will find the spot to download it at the bottom of the page. Some pages are "locked." The password to unlock them is "dead" since he is a member of the Dead Runners Society.

His template tracks miles on shoes, average weekly, monthly, types of runs etc.

the FAKE Hingle McCringleberry wrote:

I've made many logs while running

Don't know about you but usually when I poop while running it is anything but a perfectly double tapered log.

jpo070 wrote:

I'm a big fan of running2win.com. Have had a log on there since high school. iPhone app that's very handy as well.

+1

Long time running2win user here.

Bill the pill wrote:

Slim wrote:

I've been using RunningAhead.com for 10 years now. I highly recommend it.

+1

+1

Hands down, this is the best. Great log. Easy to track miles on your shoes. Customized reports. Seamless import from Garmin, etc.

joho wrote:

jpo070 wrote:

I'm a big fan of running2win.com. Have had a log on there since high school. iPhone app that's very handy as well.

+1

Long time running2win user here.

Running2win is the way to go I know of several pro runners who use it. (Kyle Merber, Donn Cabral)

Running2Win is great, but if you are syncing a GPS watch to upload data from runs, I think Strava is the best based on the amount and type of stats that can be viewed.

Strava also has a paid premium option, I don't remember whether it is $5 or $10 per month. Not exactly cheap, but I just started the free trial and the detail of the stats you can view is awesome, very in depth analysis. I will certainly consider paying for the premium version once my trial expires.

Logging on a large, desk-size calendar is probably the easiest way, but if you want to write details of the run beyond just distance/time, I think an online log such as Strava or R2W is the best way to go.

Reptilians wrote:

Running2Win is great, but if you are syncing a GPS watch to upload data from runs, I think Strava is the best based on the amount and type of stats that can be viewed.

Strava also has a paid premium option, I don't remember whether it is $5 or $10 per month. Not exactly cheap, but I just started the free trial and the detail of the stats you can view is awesome, very in depth analysis. I will certainly consider paying for the premium version once my trial expires.

Logging on a large, desk-size calendar is probably the easiest way, but if you want to write details of the run beyond just distance/time, I think an online log such as Strava or R2W is the best way to go.

Strava's social media for runners, cyclists, and triathletes. It's not a useful running log. I have a difficult time ever going back to see how far I ran in the months leading up to such and such race. Maybe it can be done, but the ability to quickly find info, like how many miles I ran in 2013, or how fast my tempo runs were before I hit a marathaon pr in 2014, is not easy. In RunningAhead, it's easy.

To the poster above who rightly pointed out that online running logs disappear, RunningAhead allows me, at any time, to download all my data into CVS format. I'd lose the GPS data, but no biggie. The CSV could easily be uploaded into Excel if I needed it.

Get a running log. It is super easy to write in and track your mileage! Also motivating.

Here it is a perfect example of one:

https://www.etsy.com/ALIxONTraining/listing/862386594/athletes-planner?utm_source=Copy&utm_medium=ListingManager&utm_campaign=Share&utm_term=so.lmsm&share_time=1601775649296