We are continuing to add to the growing list of sites compatible with the RunPartner importer.  Our newest addition is fitness.strands.com.

Fitness Strands has recently posted “The Strands Fitness training log will be shutting down on December 30, 2011. It has been a very fun and exciting last three years and we wish you continued success out on the roads and trails.”

For all those Strands Fitness users without a home:  We invite you to try out RunPartner!

Account creation and data import should take less then 10 minutes.  You should see many familiar features as well as a few new ones on RunPartner.  We also welcome you to make connections with the many runners already using RunPartner.com

The importer will allow you bring:

• All activities
• All routes (name, notes, distance, points)
• All shoes
• Account info
• User profile info

The importer in the settings page which is accessible through the  icon in the menu.  Read more about importers here: Importing Your Data

Is my information backed up?

Over the last decade  some websites have suffered catastrophic data loss and have been forced to close.  To protect the longevity of your logs and data, RunPartner makes a backup of everything several times a day and then compresses and encrypts it before sending it to three backup datacenters across the country.  If that’s still not enough, you can use the AutoBackup feature to have your data emailed to you quarterly for safe keeping!

Can I get my data out?

Unlike the draconian policies of Facebook and other activity tracking sites, which prevent the export of user data, at RunPartner you can always pack up your information and head West.  Simply use our Export feature to get all your logging goodness in a nicely packed file.  You can then open and explore it in Microsoft Excel.

By clicking on the “Add” option in the menu and selecting the “ Activity” button, the Activity Editor window will appear (see image below).   You can enter the details of your activity in this form and remember to click save!

Note: The only required field is distance.

RunPartner Dominates Ragnar!

Despite our best efforts, Team RunPartner.com reined supreme at the 2011 D.C. Ragnar Relay. With an overall time of 20:02:55 for the 198.1mi course, we broke the course record by over 1 1/2 hours. We also bested second place by nearly 3 hours. We started in dead last position, 9 hours after other teams started, and still caught all but 7 of the 283 teams. It was domination.

The success was nevertheless difficult as vagaries beset us:

• Running the 12 man race with 11 men
• Fog causing mere 10 foot visibility, plus very heavy rain
• Two men getting lost and losing 35 minutes
• Very muddy roads causing 30 vans to get stuck
• Half the team with intestinal disruptions
• Not sleeping for 50+ hours
• Very poor nutrition and hydration

Overall it was madness barely contained, but after a little sleep and a few meals, we’re all happy we did it. Hooray!

P.S. A special thanks for our tireless drivers Jenna and Mike!

Just to get a little nerdy, here are some of our splits:

Leg01:
Leg02:
Leg03:
Leg04: 31:20
Leg05:
Leg06:
Leg07: 53:10 (7:12,6:46,6:40,7:45,6:43,6:20,6:36,5:56 (0.88mi) )
Leg08: 35:15 (5:59,7:47,7:42,5:57,5:31,5:28 (0.43mi) )
Leg09: 35:00 (5:43,6.09,6:13,6:04,6:16,5:57(0.77) )
Leg10: 36:10
Leg11: 52:45 (5:17,5:30,5:27,5:29,5:41,5:28,5:49,5:50,5:45,5:53 (0.38) )
Leg12: 45:16 (5:46,6:03,6:21,6:02,6:58,6:19,5:41,5:45 (0.4mi) )
Leg13:
Leg14:
Leg15:
Leg16:
Leg17: 26:30
Leg18:
Leg19: 30:28 (5:42,5:55,6:03,6:49,6:26)
Leg20: 		 (5:44,5:45,6:38,6:38,6:01,5:37,5:01(.86) )
Leg21: 41.58 (6:38,6:29,6:19,6:10,6:15,6:14,5:57 (0.66) )
Leg22: 22:14 (6:07,6:11,6:15,3:42(.62) )
Leg23: 55:34 (5:36,5:38,6:37,6:49,6:04,5:54,6:12,6:29,5:52,6:11 (0.1) )
Leg24: 43:50 (5:58,6:00,5:51,5:49,5:50,5:57,6:06,6:17 (0.38mi) )
Leg25:
Leg26:
Leg27:
Leg28:
Leg29: 23:44
Leg30:
Leg31: 11:30
Leg32
Leg33: 27.23 (6:10,6:14,6:13,6:15,6:07 (0.4) )
Leg34: 16:44 (6:02,6:06,4:36 (.71) )
Leg35: 21:41
Leg36:

RunPartner Ragnar!

RunPartner is happy to announce sponsorship of the RunPartner.com entry in the 2011 Washington, D.C. Ragnar Relay. The race course is 198.1 trying miles from rural Maryland to Alexandria, VA in what is sure to be a grueling race. Seeded as the fastest of 283 teams entered, Team RP will attempt the win, though nothing can be certain in a race prone to such vicissitudes as rough flora, fauna, and weather. The team will start at 4PM this Friday and attempt a sub 6:00/mi traversal of the course.

All  team members are all daily RunPartner users:

• Patrick Hughes
• Ezra Milby
• Daniel Mueller
• Steve Mutisya
• Daniel Lane
• Joseph Lust
• Christopher Nolan
• Jon Pinto
• Marek Slipski
• Tyle Stelzig
• Tim Rusterholz

Stay tuned for interstitial live posts from the race as it develops.

Feedback Dashboard

At RunPartner we know our beloved users have the best ideas to improve the site. To better collect your excellent suggestions, we’ve integrated with UserVoice to assemble and manage the myriad requests we receive.

With UserVoice you can now:

• Submit your own cogent posit
• See what features are requested
• See the current state of each request
• See feedback from RP admins on those features

Simply click the feedback icon  at the bottom of any RunPartner page to get started.

Finish Line

Congratulations to RunPartner athlete Dan Duett for finishing 32nd overall (and #14 American finisher) at the Boilermaker 15K in Utica, NY.

Dan ran 49:48 (avg 5:21/mile) to break the coveted 50-minute barrier.

Dan was joined by a number of members from the RunPartner community.

Full results can be found here.

Mueller wins stage

UPDATE 6/19/2011

Danny won Stage 3 this morning to take all three stage wins and the overall series title. Covering the 20 mountainous miles in 2:47:48, his total time for the series (60 miles) was 6:58:59. This took over 30 minutes over the standing course record, asserting a solid KickAss win.

Official writeup.

UPDATE 6/18/2011

Danny won Stage 2 today in 2:17:34, winning by a 12 minute margin over the 18 mile course. This positions Danny well to win the overall even with the final stage on Sunday. However muscle trauma accrued during the first two stages will be present in full force at the start of Stage 3 (20 miles), so it promises to be no walk in the park. Keep it up Danny!

Original Post 6/17/2011

RunPartner’s very own sponsored runner, Danny Mueller, won the first stage of the Chattanooga Mountains Stage Race. Today’s leg, 22 miles in 1:53:37 positioned Danny in a dominant lead for the series. Two more stages of the mountain endurance race remain, but Danny is strong and steady. Stay tuned for more news about Danny and other RunPartner athletes.

Official news paper writeup.

Official course profile.

1.5 Years in RP Status!

Word clouds are cool.  Really cool.  They are a nice way to show a visual depiction of word content and frequency – in this case the status updates of our users over the last year and a half.  The bigger the word the more frequently it has been used.  We had to truncate the list at words which appeared more than 15 times.

Honorable mentions:

• shredded: 4
• god: 4
• wtf: 3
• lumberjack: 3
• advil: 2
• meliora: 2
• buckyball: 1
• mosquito: 1
• swordsman: 1

What else would you like to see word clouds used for on the site?

Get the RP WebOS App!

After many late nights, RunPartner is pleased to announce the release of their new WebOS mobile App.

We listened to the dun of mobile application requests from our users and the trend was clear. WebOS was what the populace wanted, winning out over Android and iPhone. Your wish is our command.

With the new app you can do everything you would on the site, but in your hand. Log your run directly after your run, or even during the run! The possibilities are endless.

Download RunPartner WebOS App (zip 2KB)

At present, you have 2915 shoes/models to choose from. As always, if we don’t have what you need, just drop us a line via the Bug Reporter .