Thursday, January 03, 2008

The 2008 Excel Training Log Is Posted!

The link is on the left menu!

Directions for using this training log:

Enter as much or as little information as you like. Originally designed as a running log, the main focus of this log continues to be for tracking your daily running mileage for one or two workouts daily. It will track your running time and calculate your pace per mile. It will accrue your weekly, monthly, and yearly total distance. It will create a chart for your weekly mileage. It will track the number of mileage you have on up to six pairs of shoes. Most functions are fairly self-explanatory. Some cells are explained through the use of mouse-over pop-up comments. If you measure your distances in kilometers, just enter them and all the formulas will work just fine; pace per kilo will result instead of per mile, for example.

Added 2008:
Yearly totals for cycling and swimming distance. Training planning space for three sports.

If you are a new user read this - Edited 2007:
Please send me your email address so I can notify you if there are any updates to this file! Just let me know that you are a user. I will not spam you or use your email for anything else but updates. I usually procrastinate and do this too late. There usually is little time for testing all the functions, so you or I might find errors. Please let me know if you find errors.

The 2008 Excel Training Log Is Posted!

The link is on the left menu!

Directions for using this training log:

Enter as much or as little information as you like. Originally designed as a running log, the main focus of this log continues to be for tracking your daily running mileage for one or two workouts daily. It will track your running time and calculate your pace per mile. It will accrue your weekly, monthly, and yearly total distance. It will create a chart for your weekly mileage. It will track the number of mileage you have on up to six pairs of shoes. Most functions are fairly self-explanatory. Some cells are explained through the use of mouse-over pop-up comments. If you measure your distances in kilometers, just enter them and all the formulas will work just fine; pace per kilo will result instead of per mile, for example.

Added 2008:
Yearly totals for cycling and swimming distance. Training planning space for three sports.

If you are a new user read this - Edited 2007:
Please send me your email address so I can notify you if there are any updates to this file! Just let me know that you are a user. I will not spam you or use your email for anything else but updates. I usually procrastinate and do this too late. There usually is little time for testing all the functions, so you or I might find errors. Please let me know if you find errors.

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

The 2008 Excel Training Log Will Be Posted Soon!

Sorry, I am a procrastinator and I have been skiing a lot. Please use paper for a few days until I get the 2008 Training Log posted. If I have your email address, I will let you know when it is available for download.

You may be aware, that when I started this project some years ago, the online training logs were not around. There are now tons of sites with online training logs that may suit your needs. The advantage of an Excel log is that you do not have to be online to use it, and you can customize it as you wish.

There is another excellent Excel running log available for download from David Hayes, an Excel god. You can start Hayes's log any time. It tracks a lot more information. Though it is clearly superior to mine in detail, I don't think I could keep up with all the data that one could enter, and I like my monthly configuration.