Pythoneering

For a long while now, I’ve been merely tinkering with Django. I’ve tracked its development closely and with great interest - even contributed some unit tests for template tags - but my use of the framework has been limited to experimentation.

I’ve finally decided to bite the bullet and do something more concrete and useful. I do a lot of running in my spare time and I’m fairly serious about it. By “serious”, I mean that I’m a member of a running club and compete in races every now and then. Runners like myself frequently log the details of their training and racing: where they ran, how far they went, how long it took, the effort involved, etc. I first started doing this on paper years ago, then moved to an Excel spreadsheet with an elaborate set of macros to compute mileage per week or month and sundry other statistics. Of course, it is far more sensible to do this in a database, with a front-end to provide the necessary business logic and user interface.

Hence, we have RunLog: a Django application for logging and analysing training runs and races. A first prototype is nearly finished and, if everything works as expected, I’ll stick it online for others to try. Drop me a line if you are a runner and would be interested in evaluating or contributing to this project.

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