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You are a naughty geek!

Was there any response? 1 out of 3 would be something.

Nah, Zoe couldn't help. One day I'll get a Star Wars fan.

Did you get Zoe to take the Voigt-Kampf test? Is Zoe a replicant?

Is anyone else reading Zoe's contributions in the voice of a synth from Humans?

JenL - yes...

It passes the Turing test. But so does Siri nowadays. I think we need an update. This "Ian" character is clearly some kind of clever software bot. G

Wondered what on earth JenL was on about until I realises I readi Zoes responses in the voice of a synth...

I am beginning to think Star Wars references are an indicator of age, as with Harry Potter. i.e middle aged - late middle aged (with children)

I so wish that had come to me !!!

You'll be in a list somewhere after that

She is probably telling her colleagues that she had a right nutter from Bedford today

was it compulsory, Ian, for Zoe to use your name, Ian, in every communication. Were you tempted, Ian, to respond in kind?

That phrase always annoyed me. Harvest speed, OK, but they never dabbled in temporal mechanics or matter transferal throughout the movies. I think it proves that the Star Wars Universe watched Star Trek.

I wonder how many drains in the UK are going to getiing blocked on 1st December?

That's why I've staggered mine. Responsible, see.

Rocking the porn star look. (Or what I imagine is...)

Derren Brown

Your moustache appears to have drooped all the way down to your chin

Make it stop!

Digging the Nigel mansell eyebrows ....

Shorn Connery?

Y M C A

imdb.com

Similar, no?

Now I have the Village People as an earworm

Who plugged you in?

Can you upload a marathon length course and use it for the full navigation (ie will it zoom in to show enough detail assuming one has plotted the course in detail)?

How (or can) the music work with iTunes? Looks a decent option over the Garmin 235...

Battery life and ease of charging as my garmin is a nightmare. Looking at 235 but be good to see how it compares to that.

The app, especially after you charge the watch, my earlier model can't be found by the app afterwards.

How well does HR track on shorter efforts (Hill reps, interval sessions and the like)?

can you connect to the headphones after starting a run (hint, mine can't because the up button is retasked during a run)

He'll be back in his DeliveryCave now I expect

That's just ... *scratcheshead*.

As Robin might say, "Holy home deliveries!"

Oh god...

Just imagining the conversation in his household this morning.

"I just gotta know, are we going to try to love each other?"
"I’d like to. But he’s out there right now, and I’ve gotta go to work....and deliver his bed"

Fabulous story. Complete ring of truth - I love those people who are just 'slightly' unhinged. Not certifiable... I can see 'cutting stuff' might set alarm bells. But hey, you're right, who doesn't like Batman?

but what's a batarang?

Is it National Buy A New Bed Week? I've read of a number of people on here having new beds recently.

That cheered me up!

hilarious!

You were right. It made me laugh. And I made it here a bit earlier than 6pm. xx

i had a delivery driver who phoned cos he couldnt find my house...i stepped outside and said " i can see you...you are just a few metres up the road from me"

"no my sat nav says you are in front of me"
" no im behind you, i can see you"
"but my sat nav says im not"

That did make me chuckle

But I am at work, the closest male might not like a fumble

As beards go, that's not a bad example, but have you got your finger in an electric socket? Or ... something else?
My testicles have a great deal of unexpectedness. I think this is normal for me.

(Can we please have a testicle icon, since you've just given us ladyparts?)

No, but I had just come back from a run. My hair goes upwards on runs

I have?

I can't see anything else it could be.

It's obviously Tom Daley leaping over a bowl of cornflakes.

im at home with two female dogs...should i go out in to the street and tackle the next passerbys tackle?

I don't like ignoring instructions, but I fear my office colleague might get the wrong idea...!!

does your hair grow upwards exponentially to the beard growing down!?!??

Locating a pair of testicles may be a problem..

My testicles are thoroughly expected. I'd quite like a second opinion but MrsHL is busy writing.

You could test the theory of relativity at the same time

spread the Fetchpoint love - infect a bug?

Upload a picture of yourself eating a whole box of mince pies in one go

Place a bet, X no. of site hits in a set period, add a race to your race portfolio, comment on someone's training/blog/photo, vote for MoTM, set a target for 2017, contribute to X no. of threads in a set period, get a new badge (anything will do, could be something in newsletter like before), new buddy, volunteer for something and blog about it (could be Parkrun or marshaling or something else), erm can you tell I am avoiding work?

I liked the do something and blog about it ones - enjoyed reading them. Or gather x number of fetchies and run toegther, you get one entry per number of fetchies?

Order something off Amazon/Argos/Wiggle?

Run X miles on a particular day. Do a streak - 3/5/7 days? Like the volunteer idea too.

Collect 'x' new Conquercise zones

I like .B.'s ideas. Post a route with a photo? Add some training to your training log each day?

Leave someone a (Christmas) present on Fetchpoint (can you still do that???). Some of these ideas above would be difficult for those who don't have many Fetchies near them I think. I like the blog ideas.

I like blog ones too. Blog about another fetchie, blog about a thread on Fetch and why you like it, blog about one of the games on fetch and why you like it or another feature of Fetch to encourage others to use it

Nominate or vote for MOTM? Or even Member of the Year?

Another vote for the volunteer one.

Oh yeah, um, post an encouraging comment on someone's training? Blog on a theme is always fun. Run with a friend, pic and a blog. Run up a hill, pic and a blog. Run with a dog (or any legitimate animal), pic and a blog. Umm, other folk will come up with clevererer stuff. G

Volunteer, be it parkrun, running club, beginners, collecting for foodbank, soup kitchen, charity shop (if they allow) help out a neighbour in need etc and blog about it.

Game based things - take control of a conquercise zone? Blogs?

Share an event from your [future] race diary so others get to know about the smaller local events that are out there - perhaps by a blog.

Thought last year's foodbank idea was great and still try to remember to add something to the box in my local supermarket, when I remember! Like the idea of doing something to "give back" so any of Mrs Jigs' ideas would be great

Set up a fetchmob.

Based on the blogs of the last 24 hours doing something that helps homeless people/charities/shelters

Log two different types of training in one day...

Run a handicap time trail over a set route with garmin covered..... see how close you can get and post it in a blog...

Looking forwards to it again, fun time of the year

He came across in interviews as the bloke I'd want in charge of my impending demise... Off to buy the book now

For one odd moment I thought of Sully in "Monster Inc." (TM) Silly me.

I'd go with either in these Trumpocalpyse times

Lolz

hero

We plane to see the film.

Sorry 'plan'.

When is the film out? Or is it out already? I'd like to see it.

When is the film out? Or is it out already? I'd like to see it.

When is the film out? Or is it out already? I'd like to see it.

Whoops sorry, work network too slow. Or I really really would like to see it.

Read it while on holidays, good book, fantastic pilot. The in cockpit sequences between air traffic control and the pilots from the black box recordings are full of tension.

SS - it's December 2nd.

I'd trust you to land a plane.

The film looked good from the trailer, and I say that as someone who hates disaster movies and hides began the sofa when Mr fleecy watches Air Crash Investigation.

Oh god, this blog needs to come with a warning in the title for those eating and fetching simultaneously...Warning lights on humans would be a great idea

You're brilliant you are Fetch

warning lights ARE a great idea

I like beards

I like it, but then I don't have to kiss you. Oh, and I've checked and I'm deficient all round.

Thanks for the reminder. I have checked, but I think I'd like a second opinion.

Do you have warm hands? and have you trimmed your fingernails?

I think I found a loose screw..........

That's impressive because I haven't shaved yet and I don't even have one single whisker ....

It's not a beard until a badger has fallen asleep in it.

Nice gurning

You bear an alarming resemblance to a 1970's prog rock guitarist....

lol

It reads well and I like the graphics but as I am not an Ironman-ist and can't think of anything I am ever less likely to be, I'm not sure I can offer anything more useful than that

An hour a day? Really? I spend longer than that reading about Triathlons and fecking about on here. Maybe I should use my time more wisely?

Looks good like the graphics too not that I'm ever likely to iron it. But its all very interesting

Interesting And a good reality check for what respecting the Ironman distance actually means in terms of commitment to training.

I think you may need to apply a 'handicap' factor to the various Ironman races like golf courses vary in difficulty. Lanza & Wales for example are probably about an hour tougher than Austria & Roth.
I probably raced better in Altriman (6000m climb on bike, 1000m climb on run) taking 18 hours, than I did in Austria (1200m on bike, flat run) taking 11hrs 20.
If you have talent then you can probably race some very fast times on about 10 well-targeted hours a week

*like*

Are the clacks broken

Sorry couldn't avoid that one, I'll leave the room now

Remind me next month when my credits have reached 16 (or Buff + 1)

Forgot to mention, new red shirt arrived last week. Looks great. Not had chance to wear it yet with all the builder induced domestic chaos. Maybe tomorrow night?

Got my shirt too. Many thanks indeed, it is lovely

*does a twirl in fabby new hoodie*

Cheers Fetch

Is this the first Fetch mic drop?

Great article Fetch. And good shop and sponsorship Ant at XMiles. Boab and James are two of my running heroes! *off to look at Fetchpoint placement of XMiles markers near me!* G

I still think it's less good for me than before (me being - almost always on a PC when looking at training log) since each page has less on it now. Specifically - what I wrote before (last month?) about Entries / Calendar / Summary being on 3 separate pages now, when I liked to be able to run my eyes across them all together previously.

im happy.

+1 PtB, the inability to simultaneously review Entries / Calendar / Summary detracts from the ability to review your training.

PTB and Nelly - at the bottom of the page, go into 'Configure your training log', and untick the box marked 'Use tabs'.

It looks good to me except the hexagon thing is a waste of time as it never shows.

I've moved the config into the cog symbol where it says "Your Training Log".

Nice one! (if we all do that - not use tabs - will you be back in the same server bother as you were before? ;-))
(you've moved it to a little cog-wheel at the top, rather than "configure your training log", I think?)
But - the Entries table formatting is not right, at least for me - about 2x width of screen when tabs not in use, but OK when tabs used)

I don't really need to see the entire 10 year history in the table. It takes up half of my laptop screen! (I probably liked a previous iteration before everyone said make it like this?) Oh - I can click on 2016. Why not put a date selector like lower down to make it really obvious, and then I could have just my runs for 2016 without feeling bad about the lack of swimming or running. How do I get back to "Most Recent Month" after selecting another period? (I'd make it "Last 30 days" by the way.) Selections are a bit eratic; if I select Other and click on a month is shows me all types for the month. Then I click Cross Training only in the detail and the whole page refreshes back to Run. Maybe move the date selector and the activity selector to the top and have the whole page work from that?

I've changed '2016' to say 'Recent' - so that it's a bit clearer (in my head at least).

Under the "Entries" display, the LH columns are too narrow and the figures spill over into the next column making it very difficult to read.
I might be interested in the map, but could the Hexagons be colour coded to distinguish between running, walking and cycling?

When not using tabs, it looks like every column is shown in the 'entries' table, rather than just the subset of Heart/Preidctions/Notes/whatever.
CharlieP's question - no, the hexagons don't work perfectly outside Bedford ;-).
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/gallery-showphoto.php?id=85341
I guess the hexagons might have to 'flex' in the same way that Conquersize squares do? Which would probably make them not-very-hexagony for most of us then, assuming that they are perfectly regular at the equator.

the "Recent" isn't displaying as a proper drop down - just appears as a white text field until I click it
Is it possible to load all the rows in the background rather than displaying every year's row when the page first loads and then hiding all but the most recent?

Still think the summary and entries tabs would be better combined.
(Safari/Mac)

Been commenting on the thread so you know I like it. Use on my mobile and tablet so like the tabs, it is a pain when looking at a whole year to have to scroll down through all entries to see the summary so tabs work perfectly for this.

Flatlander - can you upload a screenshot, and let me know what you're browsing on? Colour coding might be tricky, but I'll have a think. I've got to save *something* for v2

CharlieP - less of the Lord, but I approve of the spelling of Ffetch The hexagons are 2D, and enough maths to make my brain hurt. There are still 'orphaned' hexagons where the algorithm goes slightly wrong. Edinburgh to the IOW is all fine, but there are gaps when you get as far south as (say) Lanzarote.

mbln - for at least a year

ptb - the columns are all displayed, and then when the page is loaded, the unwanted ones are hidden. Could be that something is halting page load, like maybe bad ad code (if you have them) or a plugin.

flanker - is it black text on a white box? As for background loading, I've been working on the basis that if jquery fails to get going (like ptb has been experiencing - see previous comment) then at least the log will be presented. Better to fail to hide stuff, than to fail to show stuff.

SPR -

Looks ok to me except the column widths are all out. Will add screen shot to my pictures. Using IE10.

I don't know if I have plug-ins, I thought this was just a bog-standard Chrome on my work machine. It's doing the same thing on IE 11 on the same machine. I doubt I'm the only one with this, am I?

I'm using Firefox on a home PC. I experimented on Microsoft Edge as well with the same result.
I've put a screenshot of the misaligned entries in my gallery.

Thanks for fixing that :-).

Surely you can if you allow the polygons to flex in size/aspect?

The graphs could do with being scaled a bit more like those on the training front page. Would show changes a lot better.

Yes, black text in a white box. Same on the mobile too.

Get why you load all the data, display it, then hide it. But the screen jumping around expanding then contracting when it does is pretty hideous. And given that it still has to load it all anyway does it actually solve the problem? I'd have thought it better to do load it in a background thread and show nothing until you get the correct dataset?

Feel like I'm always picking fault. Generally I like it and on the plus side it definitely works a lot better on the mobile than the old version.

Issue with columns sorted. Many thanks

I would remove the time from underneath the monthly mileage distance (or at least allow an option for the time to be removed). It makes the table very distracting to read.

I like the time, lol.

How do I view total amount of training time? I cant really seem to find a way to find it as per the old training log?

Just had a look again and it has improved a lot since the beginning. I like that I can now see time and miles in the same view. Seeing how the sessions for each day break down too is really useful. I use it 95% on the PC, so the mobile side is neither here nor there.

I'll now be bookmarking the beta as my main view as it is now better, which is what you wanted I believe

When I was on my run today, I was thinking that I'll probably put it live soon.

Like today?

The this month/ last month buttons could do with an extra button for recent to get you back to a month from current day.

Let's go with Monday. I've got to get the boy from school shortly, and I want to have some clear time to fire fight when it happens

Please maintain "m/h" as the more familiar "mph" though

No, sorry, now it's live I'm less keen. Too much space for me on a desktop screen, although I'm sure it is an improvement on mobile devices. I preferred a much more condensed appearance. Appreciate I am probably in the minority, I'm sure I'll get used to it.

It's revealing some interesting things.... here's a query - any way of showing the average speed at which you ran for that month? I quite like the new look, I would love to be able to customise the view of the annual summary at the top of the page - switch this figure on here, turn that off there, but I suspect I'm asking way too much It's blown my mind as for the first time it's given me some really interesting stats I hadn't considered (like the faster I run overall in a year, the better I do in races - which contradicts HR running and polarised a bit). I'm sat here thinking, show up months with a pb in red just by clicking on them, and then switch on something like average speed per month, or average number of intervals or hill sessions, and see the correlations, and that would be more sorted for life. In fact I don't think I'd need to run anymore, ever!

Typo "me sorted for life" not "more sorted for life".

Mine was waiting for me when I got home. Thank you!

Love mine... thanks

Mine arrived today many thanks

Mine arrived at work today. Ta very much.

Like (1). Will check out (2) on my phone later and see how it looks. Ta.

point 1 ....now im smilling
point 2 .....whatever (dont have much of an opinion

I like it, you look happy, unlike 9 years ago

Hubby is growing a beard too but for a murder mystery night - he is not as happy about it as you are.....

OH always used to have a goatee then when on holiday four years ago just stopped shaving and never went back to it (though we have a clipper to keep it shortish). Suits you sir

Did the conditioner help? while I don't really want a beard I hate shaving but it has to be done after about 3 days!

I think it might have helped a bit - but I guess the hairs are rounding off at the ends a bit now too. It's still very annoying when I'm running though - the collar of my top was nudging at it, to the point that I wanted to scratch my own neck off.

That moustache is tragic

At least now you won't have so many parents quickly ushering their kids indoors when you run past.

That moustache looks brilliant. Just need a hard hat and some mirror aviators and.... Yyyyyyyyy M. C. A.

That moustache! The horror! The horror! You look like an actor in some Brit film about football hooligans. Casual Violence. That's what I'd call it. There, that's copyright me now.

The beard is much more you than the moustache was. My Indian colleague is treating me with more respect at the moment, because my moustache is bushier than his is.

Done.

Done. I still had a login from last year, apparably. G

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Done I even remembered my login

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Another one from me

👍:-)

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I'd already done it *polishes halo*

Already done

Have it. Have it large. Etc. You have certainly been eating your Weetabix young Fetch lad! G

small, but really good usability tweaks

Cool. I am often running aground.

Very good.

I like all this a lot

Nice

Oooh, I've got a request while you're at this. When you're looking at someone else's training log (a buddy who has given permission to do so) - there's no link/avatar/username to click (I think) to get back to their profile. You have ot use 'Back' (quite a lot of times, if you've been looking at quite a few entries/months etc.)

For "planned runs" in the log imported from a training plan, can they be grey like they were before? I know they're italic now, but they don't really stand out.

In fact, in the Calender view they look exactly like actual training - very confusing

9)... can we have the same for the Fetchpoint map on mobiles? I'm always running aground!

I'm assuming from the email that it's in Aberdeen?

Yeah

The phone number is a bit of a give away too Grast.

Did she define athletic Fetch? I'd like to think I qualified on two of the three, not sure about the athletic part. Might give it a go since the Deen is only 30 odd miles away.

And the blog title, to be fair

That's all the info I have pedro.

I wasn't pointing out the total obvious part 😉.

Cheers Fetch, will ping her an email.

No idea

I am helping Alice on this study please if you can help us You need to be doing a minimum of 6 hours vigorous exercise per week. If you have questions let me know. It does involve needles

What do you mean by vigorous exercise Lesley?

Running/cycling what ever as long as it is a hard effort.

6 hours hard effort? 😳 I think this may need a bit of thinking through.

Using the typically quoted ratio of 80%/20% of easy to hard training, that means you are looking for people who do about 30hrs training a week? Good luck.

Not convinced this will improve voting. I think you'll end up with a large number of features that everyone votes for, but you won't be able to distinguish the 'killer' features to implement first as you can with just 5 votes.

Without advocating the Daily Mail in anyway but the voting doesn't distinguish in the same way their system does (plus votes and down votes), so you might have something a small amount of people think is a good idea (say 50 yes and 0 no) or something controversial that everybody has a say on (300 yes 250 no) and I'd argue that in a voting system, you'd want to differentiate between the two? (Just saying )

Done

Wow cool - thanks

I notice that the time of training is correct now the clocks have changed. Will there be a fix in 5 months time when they move back to BST?

Sorry Fetch, but I prefer everything on one page, rather than having to flick between tabs.

Garmin tells you the temperature on the day, any chance of that being included please?

*like*

What Nelly said. Sorry.

They'll get used to the tabs, looks good! Garmin knows the temperature? Wow!

"They" may get used to the tabs, but "they" were answering the question "Like?".

Yep, I'm with Nelly here, and would rather see everything on one page.

Would be interested to hear what the driver is to change various pages to have less data viewable at one go and have to jump between tabs. Is it in some way a better design philosophy for mobile users ? Everything seems to be getting driven by the "needs" of mobile users these days, but I think the latest stats still showed that the majority of users were still on non-mobile devices.

Feels like adding features because you have a new toy rather than to improve functionality/usability.

I also think I prefer everything on one page. There is already A LOT of great stuff here on FE, but it seems to be getting spread across more pages.

I don't mind the tabs. I don't usually look at kit and at the moment I'm not monitoring heart rate.

I like the proposed view! Looks great. Grouping by tab is sensible and works well, as long as switching between tabs is very snappy.

The tabs would all be client-side, so they should be instant. And I'm currently thinking about how I can appease both camps - with a layout that can be tabbed or fully-expanded.

well done to all winners

Congratulations to the winners.

Congrats to all the winners. I've just used the discount code on the XMiles site and it gives 10% off not ten quid off

Whoops, my bad. I've updated the blog.

Congrats to the winners - and exciting prizes for November

Well done the winners, thanks fetcheveryone & sponsors, running prizes are the best. Looking forward to next month now

well done winners

Thank you very much Lord Fetch and the sponsor

Well done winners.

Congrats to all the winners.

Congrats all - looking forward to November and seeing who wins the XMiles.co.uk packs