Hi All
I thought I would share an Excel spreadsheet that I have been using for the last few years to increase my motivation to getting out of my chair and off down to the pool.
A couple of coaches I know have shared it with some success with their crews and they find much improved attendance!! and therefore improvements in competitions too.
I have it working easily on my PCs with Dropbox and also on iPads and iPhones using a Dropbox/CloudOn combination. (let me know if you need a hand)
Give it a go - just enter your distance swum each day and be prepared to be amazed!
Tip: if you swim yards and metres (sorry I'm from the UK :)) then stick to one or the other when entering onto the spreadsheet if you are not to get confused.
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/.../Masters Metres Memory 2014 us.xlsx
Please let me know if you meet a problem as this is an early version!!
Best of luck with all your swimming challenges in 2014 and let me know how you get on with the spreadsheet too :)
T
I also plan to do 600,000m. At the moment 49000m left to complete till the end of the year which I think is quite doable if nothing extraordinary happens.
I prefer to use my own solution for tracking mileage and workouts. Google sites and documents provide a good platform for that and work fine for that already for 5 years. From time to time I perform backup to local workstation. This solution is free and takes very little time to construct and maintain.
I don't trust solutions which do not provide data backup to my local workstation because from my long experience in IT I know that servers stop working, sites become unavailable, companies become bankrupt and stop to operate, etc.
I also plan to do 600,000m. At the moment 49000m left to complete till the end of the year which I think is quite doable if nothing extraordinary happens.
I prefer to use my own solution for tracking mileage and workouts. Google sites and documents provide a good platform for that and work fine for that already for 5 years. From time to time I perform backup to local workstation. This solution is free and takes very little time to construct and maintain.
I don't trust solutions which do not provide data backup to my local workstation because from my long experience in IT I know that servers stop working, sites become unavailable, companies become bankrupt and stop to operate, etc.
