Time-related 'laps' and goals

Suggestion for Sports Tracker

22-02-2009 18:59

Dear Sportstracker team,

I have just started a new running training plan (for beginners ;), where I want to use NST. Part of the plan is to run X minutes and walk X minutes with an increase in the running part each week. As I guess this will also apply to some other runners, I wanted to suggest to implement to time related features:

- Set a time related lap, e.g. 10 minutes, and after the end of each lap give an audible information like " You have completed your first/second... lap"

- include time-related goals, so that I could define the goals of 30 minutes running, and at the end also get an audible information by NST.

And thanks for the great work!

Comments

Submitted by djh.sthlm on 24-02-2009 11:37.

I'll second this suggestion.

The current lap recording and sound notifications (500m or 1km) works just fine for me.

-Suggestion here is that the audio notification at each interval be selectable (like with ringtones and alarms).I don't always hear the faint beep, especially when running next to traffic. For what it's worth, I do not want to hear a pre-recorded human voice feature.

-Suggestion that the current 500m and 1km intervals remain in place with the addition of a 400m, 800m and 1600m options, simulating an olympic track lap. That way I can run my Yasso 800's outdoors when going to a real track isn't always possible.

Of course, it would be nice to plan out en entire interval session in advance with some custom variables option. Although I don't expect this idea to have mass appeal. Example: Set up a workout in advance (with good alarms) like this; 6x 1600m race-pace with 400m jogs in between.

I know that you can't replace the accuracy of a real track, but I see NST's best feature in liberating an athlete from treadmills, tracks and other typically indoor situations.

Submitted by mbrett on 24-02-2009 17:27.

In some ways it does not even need to be a voice. You could have a beep type lap indicator.
ie.
Lap 1 - 1 beep
Lap 2 - 2 beeps
Lap 3 - 3 beeps.

This assumes of course taht you are not doing 90 mile cycle rides. (90 beeps would be alittle extreme).

The ability to control the distance of an auto lap to more than 500mm or 1k would be nice and as discussed above the ability to have time based laps or time and distance based target laps positive beep or negative beep indicates weather the disctance has been achieved in the target time. etc.