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Competitions

January 12th, 2010

Competitions allow you to track your past competitions and let others know about them.

Add A Competition 

Use the “ Competition” button under “Add” in the menu to open the competition editor and add your event.  Then when you add an activity select “Competition” under type and select the name of the competition you recently added.

FAQ

Dueling Competitions

January 11th, 2010

Admit it, regardless of our running abilities, we’ve all done it. We’ve competitively wondered if we were faster than someone we walked/ran/drove by in passing, be they a Kenyan, babyjogger, or postal worker.

We have the same bad habit, so we got a fix using the new verses mode for the Competitions page. Similar to the verses mode for the Analysis page, your can compare another person’s PR’s across events with your own and learn who would win in a duel and by how much.

To use, visit a friend’s profile, click Comps, and then the Them vs Me tab on the top right of the Competitions page. Our apologies that it takes several seconds to tabulate these numbers for you, but the process is rather complex. We’re working on speeding it up.

We hope you like it, just don’t get to cocky.

Update

Take Your Marks!

January 9th, 2010

Competitions are among the most critical facets of a running log. While some run purely for health, for most members competitions are their climax for the year/season. We added a bunch of competition features to help you track your competitions and let your friends know about them. Nevertheless, there are many more fun features to come with competitions, so you just hold onto your shorts.

Competitions appears in several places all over the site:

Log/Calendar/Add Activity

Use the link to add a competition from either the link in the Day/Month view, or from the icon in Add Activity when “competitions” type is selected. Click the button to edit a selected competition in Add Activity, or click on it in the calendar Day view. You can delete a competition from the edit competition window, but only if it is not being used on an existing activity.

Home

Here you can see the competitions run by your run partners over the last 2 days. You can see what time they ran and what that competition’s name was. You can also click on that activity to view it in their log.

Team

Similar implementation to what is found in home, but team specific and the last 7 day’s worth of competitions.

Profile

See the last 5 competitions run by your friends and click on them to go and read more about them in the log.

Competitions

Now see the name of the competition you got your PR in. You can also click the edit icon to modify the competition here or the add competition icon to include a new one.

Update

Favorite Runs

January 8th, 2010

Remember that rating feature  that lets you give other/yourself users 1-5 stars on activities? We didn’t forget, but it is easy to forget when a rating was made long ago.

Now the top 5 ratings a user received are visible in their profile in the Top Rated Activities board. Click an activity to remember that climactic moment either personally, or vicariously.

Update

Runner’s Almanac

January 6th, 2010

Predictions are fun, just look at the vacuous postings filling the internet’s blogs. At RunPartner we have a more concrete prediction for you: your year’s mileage. While this is a basic extrapolation of your average day’s mileage and the days left in the year, we hope it allows you to better gauge where you are and where you want to be for the year.

It is January, the time when you can still radically correct your mileage for the year and achieve your goals. So checkout the new Yearly Totals board in the profile to compare where you are to where you have been in past years and where you are going.

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