So what do you think about the running mileage stats that get emailed to you once a week. We missed a week or two there of getting those out to you as we are still developing the infrastructure to send them out once a week to you (there’s quite a few of you running signed up with us out there :).

Do you have any suggestions or comments about the stats? We are going to try and set this up so it will automatically be sent on either Monday or Tuesday of the week. So you’ll get last week’s totals and stats at the beginning of the week. How does that sound?

It’s exciting new! We now have well over 2,000 members to our running log. I am very happy to see so many people are interested in running and recording their runs. As well it’s great to be able to give back sometime to the running community!

Our member list includes people from all over the world and continues to grow each day. We love seeing more people find our site and help them in there training with our free online tools.

For the future we are planning on adding some more feature to our site in the up coming months. As well as possibly a new design that will make the features and functions (as well as the running log page itself) much easier and fun to use.

In addition we are planning to start making blog posts much more regularly. It’ been a bit off and on in the past but we’re working on getting regular posts being done so as to provide you with tip, advice and news about our site. So if you have any ideas or want to guest post on our blog contact us.

Lastly, as always your comments and suggestions for making our site better are always welcome. And we look forward making our site even more helpful to you!

We are please to announce after many requests, you can now change the running log start date! So now if you want the running log calendar to start on Monday instead of the default Sunday all you have to do is log into your account and go to the settings page then scroll down to the subheading “Calendar Start Date”, next select the day of the week you would like the calendar to start on and then click save changes. Now you’re all set, go back to your running log calendar and you’ll now see it start the day of the week on the day you selected from your settings page!

We are currently working on improvements and new features for 2010. Some of the improvements and new features include:

1. Making the graphs and charts more accurate and more freedom to graph different aspects of your running log.
2. Creating a page where you can view all your mapped runs and their details including descriptions
3. Creation of group/club/team pages were you can join a team page and share your running data and mapped runs as well as chat with team members.
4. Ability to add more then 1 run a day
5. New design making the site look even more aesthetic and easier to use
6. The much anticipated grid view as an alternative view to the calendar running log view
7. Another anticipated features - ability to change imperial measurements from miles/Fahrenheit to metric kilometers/Celsius
8. Export and import running log data from your computer using an excel sheet
9. Facebook running log application
10. Twitter running log application - this one is actually already in place, check out your settings page to opt in your Twitter account (don’t forget to follow us on Twitter)

Let us know if you have any other suggestions. We love to hear from you and your creative ideas!

We’re currently working on implimenting a Twitter Running App that automatically post updates and runnning log entries to your Twitter status. When done you will also have the option to manually tweet running log status changes rather than having them automatically tweeted on Twitter.

Get a sneak peak of the Twitter running app by login to your account and clicking on the Account Settings link. Then go the very bottom of the page and you will see a form to submit your Twitter information. Enter your information and clikc the save changes button. Now when you log another run on your running log or make an update to your running log (mileage or running type) that information will be automatically tweeted on your Twitter account.

Here is an example tweet:

There have been reports from some members that they where experiencing an issue with mapping runs, where they would click on the map and the “shoe” marker would jump around to another location other than what they clicked. We have investigated the issue and found that the new Internet Explorer browser (version 8) is the cause of the problem. Internet Explorer 8 has some bugs and issues that cause the Google Maps not to work correctly under all circumstances. Therefore we have developed a work around that will now allow those viewing the website in Internet Explorer 8 to use all features of the site without a hitch.

So go ahead and splurge and map as many runs as you like!

Each Friday we are going to be twittering highlighted shared runs. We will post a link and title to the staff picks that week for maps you’ve shared with our community. We will also include the tag #sharedrunfriday at the end of our twitter on Fridays that way you can easily search for past highlighted shared runs.

We also welcome you to be part of the discussion and post the runs you like each Friday on Twitter. Just be sure to include the tag #sharedrunfriday at the end of our tweet.

You can check us out on twitter here: http://twitter.com/logthatrun.

Also be sure to follow us on twitter for other updates and information and check out this Friday’s #sharedrunfriday tweet.

We’re are proud to announce a new feature to LogThatRun.com! You can now track the mileage on your shoes and get notified when they reach a max allotted mileage. This will greatly assist you in making sure you’re shoes are safe, not too worn and let you know when you need to change them out.

With the shoe tracker feature you have the ability to add a shoe on the Your Shoes page, then from there you can go to your running log and when you log a run that shoe will appear in the shoe choice’s drop down box while editing that running log entry. To view the total mileage on your shoes just visit Your Shoes page and you can view each shoe’s details. Also to make things easier, we have added a Shoe Mileage Tool that allows you to quickly add and remove logged running mileage from and to your shoes.

The Shoe Mileage Tool also has select all and deselect all tool buttons that allow you to select/deselect all running entries for a given month that you’re viewing.

When you reach your max allotted mileage for a shoe the shoe tracker feature also will automatically notify you by a popup on your running log page. In addition it conventionally provides you with a link and details about purchasing new shoes. You can change your allotted mileage settings for a shoe on the Your Shoes page. This can be set to any amount of mileage you would like. By default it is set to 300 miles. It’s been suggested that around 300 miles most shoes will need to be changed out. Also if you prefer not to receive popups about shoe mileage you can set it to no popups on the Your Shoes page.

So login to your running log today and start tracking your shoe mileage!

I thought it would be nice to write about some of the new features that we’re planning to release here at LogThatRun.com. We’ve received a lot of great feedback from many members. We love the ideas we guys have come up with, thank you guys!

First we have a feature currently under development, a shoe millage tracker that will allow you to keep track of the millage you put on your shoes - so that you’ll know when it’s time to get a new pair. Next we’ll be working on adding an option for you to switch back and forth between the calendar view for your running log and a grid or table view displaying your logged runs that week. We are also looking in to a way to save multiple runs for one day.

Also some of your feedback we’ve already put in place. One of those things is, once you’ve logged in and go to map a run the map will now start by displaying the location you have in your profile instead of starting at the Golden Gate Bridge.

Do you have any new feature requests or ideas? Let us know we’d love the hear them!

Hello everyone!

Now that the site is picking up and gaining a wider interest from runners across the globe, I decided it would be nice to send out a weekly eNewsletter that includes running tips, information about upcoming races and updates on the newest features we’re adding.

So it’s official, this is the first weekly eNewsletter! Every week we are going to be sending out 1 newsletter (usually at the beginning of the week). Each newsletter will feature running tips or info on things that are happening on the website then a section on up coming races.

The running tips and info in each newsletter will also be posted on our running blog so that you can post your comments about what we said. We also may add some discussions from the forum area to the newsletter occasionally as well.

For the up coming races, we’ll be added each of those to our race directory. In the newsletter we will include a few of those details and a link back to the race’s page in our directory. Also each race’s page in our directory includes an interactive course map with the full details about the race. Also you can add a comment on each of the races in our directory. So feel free to check those out and post your comments.

If you have any ideas, comments or things you’d like to hear in our newsletter let us know.