Elements Running Club

[antiaverage]

qwerter and I are going to try to log runs by time to help motivate each other to keep running

Basically, pick a time, say 10 minutes, and go run for that long. Then log that you did it here. Next run, try and go longer than that.

A log might be something like:
"Today I ran 10 minutes"

The next log might be:
"Today I ran 10:01 "

The goal is to motivate each other to run and get better at it. Post to this thread if you plan on joining us and I'll make some neat graphs for us if I'm not lazy

Recommended Apps:
Runkeeper
Strava
Endomondo
MayMyRun a.k.a. MapMyFitness

Running Log

• Your Score is evaluated based on your Average Days and your Average Improvement.
• Log every day and increase your Average Improvement (improve your time) to optimize your Score.
• Score favors consistency and improvement, not who has been in the Elements Running Club the longest, so new loggers can be competitive.
• Your Average Days will be 1 if you Log every day. More days in between Logs increases this average, which decreases your Score.
• Your Average Improvement is the average amount of time a logged time improves over a previous log. Log better times each time to improve this stat.
• Your Score is NOT penalized if you have negative Average Improvement, your Average Improvement can only help.

Rank	Score	Username	Logs	Total Time	Avg. Time	Avg. Imp.	Avg. Days
1	8.00	theelkspeaks	5	05:00:41	01:00:08	-00:00:48	1.25
2	5.00	Dm	4	01:10:00	00:17:30	00:00:00	2
3	2.57	qwerter	3	00:53:00	00:17:40	00:01:00	4
4	2.19	UTAlan	8	14:51:08	01:51:24	-00:02:16	4.57142857142857
5	1.67	antiaverage	3	00:53:00	00:17:40	-00:04:00	6
6	1.41	Zyardran	2	01:00:00	00:30:00	00:20:00	527
7	1.00	DoubleCapitals	2	00:42:30	00:21:15	00:02:30	0
7	1.00	Lunaris	1	00:25:00	00:25:00
7	1.00	mathman101	1	00:15:00	00:15:00
7	1.00	RavingRabbid	1	00:40:00	00:40:00

(HH:MM:SS - Hours:Minutes:Seconds)

Google Spreadsheet

[UTAlan]

...I'm training for a marathon right now. Do I qualify for this?

[antiaverage]

...I'm training for a marathon right now. Do I qualify for this?

Totally We're competing against ourselves, not each other. It's a co-op game.

[Newbiecake]

I'd like to join. I desperately need some motivation to pick this up again! Though, I only do my running in my campus' gym treadmill, does that count?

[antiaverage]

I'd like to join. I desperately need some motivation to pick this up again! Though, I only do my running in my campus' gym treadmill, does that count?

Yep, treadmill is fine. Just post how long you were running on the treadmill

[UTAlan]

...I'm training for a marathon right now. Do I qualify for this?

Totally We're competing against ourselves, not each other. It's a co-op game.

Perfect

[antiaverage]

I think I'll post a graph at some point that plots percentage improvement per run for each person. That might be the best way to do this, open to suggestions.

[DoubleCapitals]

Going down either tonight or tomorrow. Any apps to suggest to track my progress personally?

[antiaverage]

Going down either tonight or tomorrow. Any apps to suggest to track my progress personally?

Runkeeper
Strava
Endomondo

[RavingRabbid]

I sometimes go cycling, is it good enough?

[Zyardran]

Yay running group!

[UTAlan]

I ran for 46 minutes yesterday.