Fetcheveryone has very few fixed costs, and I like to keep it that way. Today I got rid of £79.99 per year by cancelling my annually-renewing subscription to Microsoft Office. For the last six months I've been using Thunderbird as my email client instead of Outlook, and I've done some playing with OpenOffice today, and found it to be a more-than-adequate replacement for Excel, which was the most important consideration of all. I'm not exactly a Word power user, and I don't have any call for Powerpoint - so it was nice to be able to shed one of our fixed costs 
I pay a monthly subscription for Photoshop, and I think that might be a bit harder to replace - but I'll maybe try downloading an Open Source equivalent and see if I can get my head round it. I am so used to Photoshop though.
This isn't just a money-saving exercise - although frugality is appealing - I'm also thinking ahead to what I might do when my Mac laptop finally dies. Admittedly it's showing no signs of it just now. I'd like the freedom to be portable enough to switch to a Linux system. There's something very Matrix-y about being self-sufficient in Linux
I had a weird dream last night. I bumped into an old boss in a coffee shop. In real life he was always very shrewd and intimidating to me as a 25yo, but he'd metamorphosed into some sort of Gus Fring hybrid. He said his name was KSI, which might mean something if you're under 20. Somehow I got invited to his offices for a potential job working on his new software. I turned up, and the room was full of dozens of very colourful monitors, each showing different games - they were building a new game, and trying to study the successful elements of popular ones.
Working at that job IRL gave me a healthy dose of imposter syndrome. There were lots of extremely studious people who didn't seem to have a sense of humour, and I had to do a lot of surreptitious googling to even take part in a lot of conversations. Luckily I eventually found a group of people I could get on with. My proudest moment was teaching a hard-working Bulgarian the phrase "can't be arsed" and hearing him using it. I got made redundant after a year in the job, when their major client cut their consultant numbers. I sang all the way home.
Bit of a meander
Here's a usability conundrum for those of you still awake. Feature 182
- fetcheveryone.com/featurevoting - calls for links in the 'Monthly Totals' of your training log to our colourful monthly summary: fetcheveryone.com/training-month.php It's had 37 upvotes and no downvotes.
In itself, this would be easy to do. A glasses icon underneath each monthly mileage total would fulfil the vanilla brief. But it causes a few issues: (1) the monthly totals end up being much taller to accommodate an extra icon; (2) the monthly mileage numbers link through to a page of the log containing the training entries for that month. It feels like it would be confusing to have a glasses icon that implies "look at me", just below it.
I'm curious to see whether there are any suggestions for how to make this work in an intuitive way. See what I mean?
Current server load = 1.09
24hr average = 0.99
24hr peak = 2.83
I pay a monthly subscription for Photoshop, and I think that might be a bit harder to replace - but I'll maybe try downloading an Open Source equivalent and see if I can get my head round it. I am so used to Photoshop though.
This isn't just a money-saving exercise - although frugality is appealing - I'm also thinking ahead to what I might do when my Mac laptop finally dies. Admittedly it's showing no signs of it just now. I'd like the freedom to be portable enough to switch to a Linux system. There's something very Matrix-y about being self-sufficient in Linux
I had a weird dream last night. I bumped into an old boss in a coffee shop. In real life he was always very shrewd and intimidating to me as a 25yo, but he'd metamorphosed into some sort of Gus Fring hybrid. He said his name was KSI, which might mean something if you're under 20. Somehow I got invited to his offices for a potential job working on his new software. I turned up, and the room was full of dozens of very colourful monitors, each showing different games - they were building a new game, and trying to study the successful elements of popular ones.
Working at that job IRL gave me a healthy dose of imposter syndrome. There were lots of extremely studious people who didn't seem to have a sense of humour, and I had to do a lot of surreptitious googling to even take part in a lot of conversations. Luckily I eventually found a group of people I could get on with. My proudest moment was teaching a hard-working Bulgarian the phrase "can't be arsed" and hearing him using it. I got made redundant after a year in the job, when their major client cut their consultant numbers. I sang all the way home.
Bit of a meander
Here's a usability conundrum for those of you still awake. Feature 182
- fetcheveryone.com/featurevoting - calls for links in the 'Monthly Totals' of your training log to our colourful monthly summary: fetcheveryone.com/training-month.php It's had 37 upvotes and no downvotes.
In itself, this would be easy to do. A glasses icon underneath each monthly mileage total would fulfil the vanilla brief. But it causes a few issues: (1) the monthly totals end up being much taller to accommodate an extra icon; (2) the monthly mileage numbers link through to a page of the log containing the training entries for that month. It feels like it would be confusing to have a glasses icon that implies "look at me", just below it.
I'm curious to see whether there are any suggestions for how to make this work in an intuitive way. See what I mean?
Current server load = 1.09
24hr average = 0.99
24hr peak = 2.83
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
Just in case you don't look at the home page, and you don't get the weekly Fetch email, there's a competition on the parkrun reviews page:
fetcheveryone.com/parkrun.php
In short - make sure you've added a review or a route to our collection by midday Monday June 3rd, and I'll pick someone at random to win some lovely 361 Nemesis daps
Pip pip.
PS Before someone asks if you've already added a review, you're already in the draw. But go make sure you've added as many parkruns as you can - there's a leaderboard to be bossed
fetcheveryone.com/parkrun.php
In short - make sure you've added a review or a route to our collection by midday Monday June 3rd, and I'll pick someone at random to win some lovely 361 Nemesis daps
Pip pip.
PS Before someone asks
if you've already added a review, you're already in the draw. But go make sure you've added as many parkruns as you can - there's a leaderboard to be bossed
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
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one entry per review or route per chance?chunkywizard5:30pm, 28th May 2019
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Nah - I don't want to skew it in favour of those who get about more. I just want to get folks involvedfetcheveryone5:31pm, 28th May 2019
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Fair enough! By the way, I see we only have reviews for 1/3 of the parkruns but everything in my area is done. Have you had a look at the distribution of where needs most work? Is it just the least populated areas (where there are least fetchies)?chunkywizard5:37pm, 28th May 2019
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I haven't looked at that tbh. By my reckoning, there are 615 in the UK, and we've added reviews for 494 (80%) of those. That currently leaves 56 overseas parkruns - so that's where the big shortfall is. But I have a couple of unreviewed ones within my 50 mile circle - Barclay and Bicester. In case you haven't spotted, you can see these by looking at the 'reviews' column when viewing your nearest 50.fetcheveryone5:49pm, 28th May 2019
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*that's 56 reviewed overseas parkruns.fetcheveryone5:49pm, 28th May 2019
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Unfortunately I won't be able to get to an international one until September when I go 'home'. I could have gone last year only I didn't know it existed!Garfield8:32pm, 29th May 2019
If you go to this page:
fetcheveryone.com/parkrun.php
you'll see your nearest 50 parkruns.
The ones you've added reviews for will show up in bold with a green tick after them. That's not new
If you click one of the events, there's a new box titled 'Matching Routes' (it's on the right on desktop; or scroll down a bit on mobile).
In that box, I pick out any public routes with an EXACT name match for that parkrun (not case-sensitive though, let's not take the p/P) - so you can quickly check out the route for that event.
There will be some parkruns that don't have any matching routes - and here's where you can be a big help. You can either:
(a) plot out the route using our route plotting tool:
fetcheveryone.com/routes-add.php
or (b) even quicker, find one of your training entries where you ran the route, and look for the 'Save Route as...' box on the map.
In both cases, REMEMBER TO MAKE THE ROUTE PUBLIC, and save it using the exact name, as listed in our reviews
Thanks peeps
fetcheveryone.com/parkrun.php
you'll see your nearest 50 parkruns.
The ones you've added reviews for will show up in bold with a green tick after them. That's not new
If you click one of the events, there's a new box titled 'Matching Routes' (it's on the right on desktop; or scroll down a bit on mobile).
In that box, I pick out any public routes with an EXACT name match for that parkrun (not case-sensitive though, let's not take the p/P) - so you can quickly check out the route for that event.
There will be some parkruns that don't have any matching routes - and here's where you can be a big help. You can either:
(a) plot out the route using our route plotting tool:
fetcheveryone.com/routes-add.php
or (b) even quicker, find one of your training entries where you ran the route, and look for the 'Save Route as...' box on the map.
In both cases, REMEMBER TO MAKE THE ROUTE PUBLIC, and save it using the exact name, as listed in our reviews
Thanks peeps
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
Comments
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Fab!LindsD8:03pm, 26th May 2019
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Ace!Sigh8:17pm, 26th May 2019
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What a great idea ;-), lucky all my routes are already name correctly! This will be super handy next time I’m touristing.chunkywizard8:32pm, 26th May 2019
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Lovely. You are allowed a day off every now and then you know.McGoohan8:54pm, 26th May 2019
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By the way, a suggestion. Can you put a date of when the route was added next to the link? Courses change and some routes may be out of date. This would allow you to choose the latest one.chunkywizard9:22pm, 26th May 2019
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Brilliant!Rrunner10:00pm, 26th May 2019
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Ooh, that's clever!HappyG(rrr) G8:49am, 27th May 2019
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Good one. Possible refinement: at least two of my local parkruns have summer and winter routes. Would it be easy to match as far as “parkrun” and wildcard anything beyond that? Wimpole in particular is a very different beast in winter months.Badger6:43pm, 27th May 2019
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Badger, I agree, it would be good to call out alternative courses. I put in a new feature request for an enhancement asking for dates for routes or use of the matching algorithms to group the routes into alternatives, but your way works as well I have some alternative routes already in my routes which I’ve excluded by putting a description in brackets eg (old), (winter) etc.chunkywizard9:12pm, 27th May 2019
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I've added the wildcard match, so it'll match anything after the name of the parkrun. I've also ordered the list by route ID, with the most recent first (we don't store the date the route was added). And I've also added a little check to exclude routes that are less than 4.5k or more than 5.5k (to exclude stuff like 'Bedford parkrun followed by run home').fetcheveryone1:50pm, 28th May 2019
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nice, thankschunkywizard2:09pm, 28th May 2019
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Brilliant, taBadger6:30am, 29th May 2019
Fix It Friday; Project Joker Week 2; and some shout outs.
1:02pm, 24 May 2019
A bit of a compendium blog this week.
Fix It Friday
The Server
The big question over the last couple of weeks has been "how's the server doing?". It's been just over a week since the server went down for its operating system upgrade, and I've been watching it closely. I measure the server load automatically every five minutes, and the average load over the last 24 hours is 0.85, with only 7 readings of 2.0 or more. In simple terms, it's kicking ass.
We *did* have a 20 minute window of pain yesterday, from about 9.40am 'til 10am - but this wasn't the server. It was a wider internet problem that was affecting various websites. This fascinating mix of metaphor and nerd from our hosting provider: "there were a number of UDP floods across UK peering points. We've worked with our upstream providers and other ISPs to suggest some black-holing which, we hope, should have helped significantly." So (ss) some a-hole was attempting to clog up a bit of the internet.
Features
We've now had our 200th feature proposal - I'm really pleased how it's working. Looking at the site stats, every time I sort out a feature from the list, there's a nice little bump in traffic, as you all follow the notification to read what's changed. And hopefully whilst you're there, you get round to voting for any features you haven't decided on. I could put little red x's on them, if that helps
I'll run through some of the recent changes:
FEATURE 164
Drell asked for better tracking of WAVA bests. On your user profile, go to 'Race Times'. There's a new toggle above the list of best times. Use it to switch to show Best WAVA for each year.
FEATURE 155
RunningRonnie asked for the ability to move from one training session to the next without having to go back to the training log. I've added 'Prev' and 'Next' buttons to each of your training entries now.
FEATURE 165
Wine Legs wanted a clearer indicator of *which* feature had been resolved when she clicked her notification. The relevant one now shows up in pink because why not.
FEATURE 158
chunkywizard wanted to filter his race portfolio to find races quickly. There's a little box in the column headings now, where you can start typing characters to filter your list. Handy if you've got dozens of races.
FEATURE 86
Diogenes wanted to tag whereabouts on a route a photo was taken. He says it's slightly less wonderful than he imagined. For shame
FEATURE 102
Sigh asked that when he views a route, and puts his mouse on the elevation graph, he'd like a dot on the map to show where that bit is. Sorted.
FEATURE 113
PeteFastFeet wanted better back and forward navigation when viewing a month in the training log. If you click 'Edit' in the little white box that contains your current viewing date range, there are links to the previous and next months. Previously, the only options were "This month" and "Last month" - but now they move with you - so if you're on January, they'll say December and February.
Other Fixes
1) I've adjusted the search, so that you choose the type of search you want to do before pressing Go. Lots of you use the search to quickly find a user, or a race. It felt like unnecessary work for the server to search ALL of the search areas every time a request was made.
2) This was a bit of a sporadic one - occasionally I'd get a report from one of you saying that your Garmin data came across with no map, no HR data, no cadence etc. On reimporting, it would be completely fine. I eventually sussed it. It was affecting 1 in 256 training entries. Technical stuff: we store the GPS data in a nested directory structure, with 256 top level directories, each holding 256 sub-directories. The reason for this comes down to making reading and writing of data as quick as possible. Except... there were only 255 top level directories; so therefore 1 in 256 entries were disappearing down a hole.
Shout Outs
The following Fetchies have made a contribution to the running costs of the site over the last week. They're all now enjoying using Fetch with no ads, which feels much calmer. If you're already a voluntary donator, do feel free to switch your ads off - there's a link under Profile > Settings - I won't mind if you all go ahead and do it. And if you're not someone who donates yet, please consider sparing the cost of a pint per month to support your favourite running site. Click some names around the site, and you'll see just how many people do support us. Thanks all
mikeharrison
dirtbum
Sazzahazza
LS21
Benny Turbo.
Jenko
Project Joker: Week 2
I managed all my sessions again
Tuesday - Intervals
fetcheveryone.com/t-16278818
5 x 0.5mi, with 3 min recoveries. Last one was hard and I had to slow down a wee bit (see training entry for gory details), but overall I was very pleased
Wednesday - Long Run
fetcheveryone.com/t-16283879
Katie went for an evening swim at Box End, so I ran out to meet her, and threw in a couple of extra bits to turn it into a long run. I got a nice heckle from Wine Legs ("Go on Ian, give it some WELLY!") - I bet your neighbours loved that By and large, a relaxing run, although the last 1.5 miles were a bit rollercoastery.
Friday - Threshold
fetcheveryone.com/t-16290039
Set out for a mile warm up beforehand, wondering whether my legs would be up to it. Really chuffed with the consistency, and sticking another six minutes on last week's effort. I was also reminded of Deegee's piece for the podcast about having little goals as well as big ones - so the extra bit of distance meant I sneaked past May 2016, May 2013, May 2007 and May 2006 to make this my second best May ever (with a week left to take down May 2018!) fetcheveryone.com/training-month.php
Weekly Miles = 18.3
Z5 (<7:30/mi) = 3.2mi
Z4 (<7:50/mi) = 1.9mi
Z3 (<8:10/mi) = 1.1mi
Z2 (<9:00/mi) = 4.2mi
Z1 (<10:00/mi) = 6.2mi
Z0 (>10:00/mi) = 1.7mi
(Trying to do my long runs in zone 1, threshold in zone 4, and intervals in zone 5)
That's probably it for my running this week, unless The Boy has a mega sleep-in on Sunday morning.
Kit
See my previous blog for the bits of kit I've got left in the cupboard. The list is up-to-date, I've been editing it as the orders come in.
Have a great weekend. Don't forget to listen to the podcast
Fix It Friday
The Server
The big question over the last couple of weeks has been "how's the server doing?". It's been just over a week since the server went down for its operating system upgrade, and I've been watching it closely. I measure the server load automatically every five minutes, and the average load over the last 24 hours is 0.85, with only 7 readings of 2.0 or more. In simple terms, it's kicking ass.
We *did* have a 20 minute window of pain yesterday, from about 9.40am 'til 10am - but this wasn't the server. It was a wider internet problem that was affecting various websites. This fascinating mix of metaphor and nerd from our hosting provider: "there were a number of UDP floods across UK peering points. We've worked with our upstream providers and other ISPs to suggest some black-holing which, we hope, should have helped significantly." So (ss) some a-hole was attempting to clog up a bit of the internet.
Features
We've now had our 200th feature proposal - I'm really pleased how it's working. Looking at the site stats, every time I sort out a feature from the list, there's a nice little bump in traffic, as you all follow the notification to read what's changed. And hopefully whilst you're there, you get round to voting for any features you haven't decided on. I could put little red x's on them, if that helps
I'll run through some of the recent changes:
FEATURE 164
Drell asked for better tracking of WAVA bests. On your user profile, go to 'Race Times'. There's a new toggle above the list of best times. Use it to switch to show Best WAVA for each year.
FEATURE 155
RunningRonnie asked for the ability to move from one training session to the next without having to go back to the training log. I've added 'Prev' and 'Next' buttons to each of your training entries now.
FEATURE 165
Wine Legs wanted a clearer indicator of *which* feature had been resolved when she clicked her notification. The relevant one now shows up in pink because why not.
FEATURE 158
chunkywizard wanted to filter his race portfolio to find races quickly. There's a little box in the column headings now, where you can start typing characters to filter your list. Handy if you've got dozens of races.
FEATURE 86
Diogenes wanted to tag whereabouts on a route a photo was taken. He says it's slightly less wonderful than he imagined. For shame
FEATURE 102
Sigh asked that when he views a route, and puts his mouse on the elevation graph, he'd like a dot on the map to show where that bit is. Sorted.
FEATURE 113
PeteFastFeet wanted better back and forward navigation when viewing a month in the training log. If you click 'Edit' in the little white box that contains your current viewing date range, there are links to the previous and next months. Previously, the only options were "This month" and "Last month" - but now they move with you - so if you're on January, they'll say December and February.
Other Fixes
1) I've adjusted the search, so that you choose the type of search you want to do before pressing Go. Lots of you use the search to quickly find a user, or a race. It felt like unnecessary work for the server to search ALL of the search areas every time a request was made.
2) This was a bit of a sporadic one - occasionally I'd get a report from one of you saying that your Garmin data came across with no map, no HR data, no cadence etc. On reimporting, it would be completely fine. I eventually sussed it. It was affecting 1 in 256 training entries. Technical stuff: we store the GPS data in a nested directory structure, with 256 top level directories, each holding 256 sub-directories. The reason for this comes down to making reading and writing of data as quick as possible. Except... there were only 255 top level directories; so therefore 1 in 256 entries were disappearing down a hole.
Shout Outs
The following Fetchies have made a contribution to the running costs of the site over the last week. They're all now enjoying using Fetch with no ads, which feels much calmer. If you're already a voluntary donator, do feel free to switch your ads off - there's a link under Profile > Settings - I won't mind if you all go ahead and do it. And if you're not someone who donates yet, please consider sparing the cost of a pint per month to support your favourite running site. Click some names around the site, and you'll see just how many people do support us. Thanks all
mikeharrison
dirtbum
Sazzahazza
LS21
Benny Turbo.
Jenko
Project Joker: Week 2
I managed all my sessions again
Tuesday - Intervals
fetcheveryone.com/t-16278818
5 x 0.5mi, with 3 min recoveries. Last one was hard and I had to slow down a wee bit (see training entry for gory details), but overall I was very pleased
Wednesday - Long Run
fetcheveryone.com/t-16283879
Katie went for an evening swim at Box End, so I ran out to meet her, and threw in a couple of extra bits to turn it into a long run. I got a nice heckle from Wine Legs ("Go on Ian, give it some WELLY!") - I bet your neighbours loved that
By and large, a relaxing run, although the last 1.5 miles were a bit rollercoastery. Friday - Threshold
fetcheveryone.com/t-16290039
Set out for a mile warm up beforehand, wondering whether my legs would be up to it. Really chuffed with the consistency, and sticking another six minutes on last week's effort. I was also reminded of Deegee's piece for the podcast about having little goals as well as big ones - so the extra bit of distance meant I sneaked past May 2016, May 2013, May 2007 and May 2006 to make this my second best May ever (with a week left to take down May 2018!) fetcheveryone.com/training-month.php
Weekly Miles = 18.3
Z5 (<7:30/mi) = 3.2mi
Z4 (<7:50/mi) = 1.9mi
Z3 (<8:10/mi) = 1.1mi
Z2 (<9:00/mi) = 4.2mi
Z1 (<10:00/mi) = 6.2mi
Z0 (>10:00/mi) = 1.7mi
(Trying to do my long runs in zone 1, threshold in zone 4, and intervals in zone 5)
That's probably it for my running this week, unless The Boy has a mega sleep-in on Sunday morning.
Kit
See my previous blog for the bits of kit I've got left in the cupboard. The list is up-to-date, I've been editing it as the orders come in.
Have a great weekend. Don't forget to listen to the podcast
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
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Thank you as ever. Have a good weekend.LindsD1:09pm, 24th May 2019
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Top work. Awesome As Alwayschunkywizard1:19pm, 24th May 2019
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The site is a well-oiled machine!Sigh1:22pm, 24th May 2019
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Great work Fetch, I did worry you were creating a rod for your own back with the feature suggestions but it seems to be working well.StuH
I noticed the change to search, TBH I don't really like it. If I search say for the name of a race, I'd rather see race entries, blogs, threads etc all at once. Not a biggie and if it is more efficient, probably the right call.1:25pm, 24th May 2019 -
I’m so ungrateful!Diogenes1:32pm, 24th May 2019
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Lol, sorry Dio. I am still working on the streetmap versionfetcheveryone Watch out for the Fetch Car with the iPhone mounted on the top in your neighbourhood.1:36pm, 24th May 2019
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Mr Fetch sir, you could just market a hat with revolving fan/iPhone holder and we'd capture our runs and you could then load those? No need for a FetchCar. Mind you mine would be Fetch Field View, not Street View.um1:51pm, 24th May 2019
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Sad daze. Feature 164 reminds me I haven't set a best WAVA since 2014.Watford Wobble1:53pm, 24th May 2019
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Top fixing and training Fetch. Good week mate!HappyG(rrr) G3:04pm, 24th May 2019
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I agree with StuH on the search. Any chance of reinstating the multi-category search? If not, could it default to races instead of users?♪♫ Synge ♪♫4:51pm, 24th May 2019
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Great work as always. Thanks!Ness6:07pm, 24th May 2019
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Thanks for the WAVA thingDrell9:26pm, 24th May 2019
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You've been busyTeeBee7:23am, 25th May 2019
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Re FEATURE 113, could it work with 'dynamic' months as well? If I'm viewing the month up to today (so 25 April), I'd like to go to the next month ending at that date rather than calendar months.SPR
Is this the wrong place to ask this?3:27pm, 25th May 2019 -
Weirdly, Ian, the thing with the missing gps and cadence data has just happened to me today with fetcheveryone.com/training/16294963Badger
Loving the feature updates - couple of things there I’d have suggested if I’d thought of them!5:38pm, 25th May 2019
I've had a tidy up of the Fetch Kit Cupboard, and counted up all the bits and bobs of kit that we have left over from previous batches. If you want any of the following items, leave a comment below this blog. I'll fmail you on a first-come, first-served basis with instructions on how to pay etc.
If we don't have your size/cut, and you're interested in owning one of our forthcoming 15th anniversary Fetch Shirts, please vote yes for Feature 75 in our feature voting tool: fetcheveryone.com/featurevoting#feature75 - I'll be in touch when there's more news
****EDIT**** I've updated the list to reflect all the purchases to 7.50am Wednesday.
Shirts and Vests £20 (normally £26)
1 XS red ladies vest
3 black ladies XS 'Class of 2016' (tiny writing) shirts
1 ladies red shirt size 14
1 ladies red vest 2XL
1 small red unisex vest
2 medium unisex red vest
4 large black unisex vest
1 large black unisex shirt
Hoodies £30 (normally £35)
1 XS red hoodie
4 small grey hoodies
Buffs £10 (normally £15)
Approx 10 Buffs
Swimming Hats £5 (normally £8.50)
Approx 20 swimming hats
Server load average over last 24 hours = 0.927 (Sunday always busier than Saturday)
Peak load = 3.95
If we don't have your size/cut, and you're interested in owning one of our forthcoming 15th anniversary Fetch Shirts, please vote yes for Feature 75 in our feature voting tool: fetcheveryone.com/featurevoting#feature75 - I'll be in touch when there's more news
****EDIT**** I've updated the list to reflect all the purchases to 7.50am Wednesday.
Shirts and Vests £20 (normally £26)
1 XS red ladies vest
3 black ladies XS 'Class of 2016' (tiny writing) shirts
1 ladies red shirt size 14
1 ladies red vest 2XL
1 small red unisex vest
2 medium unisex red vest
4 large black unisex vest
1 large black unisex shirt
Hoodies £30 (normally £35)
1 XS red hoodie
4 small grey hoodies
Buffs £10 (normally £15)
Approx 10 Buffs
Swimming Hats £5 (normally £8.50)
Approx 20 swimming hats
Server load average over last 24 hours = 0.927
(Sunday always busier than Saturday) Peak load = 3.95
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
Comments
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I don’t suppose you could give the chest size (inches) of the unisex stuff, could you please?Alice the Camel10:24am, 20th May 2019
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Alice - are you thinking the S, M or L? You can fmail if you prefer.fetcheveryone10:28am, 20th May 2019
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The large black vests / shirts - are they from the "Ronhill" batch last year? If so then I think I'd actually need XL in which case, no good, but if earlier, maybeSigh
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@Sigh - yep, they're from the recent batch. I will fmail you about the hoodie.fetcheveryone10:39am, 20th May 2019
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Small red hoodie pleaseAutumnleaves10:52am, 20th May 2019
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Thanks AL - fmail incomingfetcheveryone11:01am, 20th May 2019
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are the shirts the standing on the shoulders of fetchies or the really old ones that I liked best?HellsBells12:34pm, 20th May 2019
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The women’s shirts are from the new batch of Ron Hill stuff that we got in 2018.fetcheveryone12:49pm, 20th May 2019
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thanks Fetch - I've got 2 of those already so will pass this timeHellsBells1:11pm, 20th May 2019
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Can I have an XL ladies red shirt please?SarahWoo2:29pm, 20th May 2019
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Thanks Sarah - look out for my fmail...fetcheveryone2:33pm, 20th May 2019
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We always needs swim hats. 1 please.Nightjar4:38pm, 20th May 2019
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Is the ladies black sz 14 tee still available? Otherwise one of the red sz 14s? Ta mutchly 😊Jubear5:29pm, 20th May 2019
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Nightjar - I'll put one in Katie's swim bag for you.fetcheveryone
Both still available Jubear - I'll fmail you.5:32pm, 20th May 2019 -
How small are the small goodies?Sam Jelfs9:13pm, 20th May 2019
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Hoodies even, damn autocorrect...Sam Jelfs9:14pm, 20th May 2019
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Hi Sam - the hoodies are:fetcheveryone
64.5cm from top of shoulder to bottom
103cm circumference measured at armpits
51cm sleeve from armpit to cuff.
Let me know if you’re interested. Ta.9:31am, 21st May 2019 -
Large grey hoodie, please, sir, if it's still going!ishep 🇪🇺9:01pm, 21st May 2019
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No worries ishep, I've put it aside. Fmail incoming...fetcheveryone7:49am, 22nd May 2019
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Hi fetch, I realize I'm a bit late to this but if you've got a buff & a swim cap still available, that be great!Wednesday Mouse5:09pm, 22nd May 2019
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Sure thing WM - I’ll fmail you. Plenty of those available at the moment.fetcheveryone5:11pm, 22nd May 2019
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A unisex small vest? What would the chest size be and is that the one I am wearing in my avatar? ThanksLip Gloss10:38pm, 24th May 2019
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Do you still have the large T shirt and a buff?HowFar?5:35pm, 11th Jun 2019
I have to update yesterday's weekly figures, because I got another run in this morning. Katie got up for a 7am swim at Box End, and as she walked to her car, I legged it after her in my dressing gown (sorry neighbours, I wasn't expecting the sudden gust of wind) and threw my Fetch hoodie at her.
So I got to take a leisurely five miler along the river; through the middle of Great Denham parkrun; and then a very brief bit of speedy road before sitting lakeside and watching the swimmers. There's a ladder where they climb out, with an unfortunate metal bar that has to be ducked under. The owners have wrapped thick foam around it, and I got to see first hand why, as one poor bloke climbed out of the water and hit himself square in the face.
Weekly Miles = 22.3
Z5 (<7:30/mi) = 3.1mi
Z4 (<7:50/mi) = 1.0mi
Z3 (<8:10/mi) = 1.1mi
Z2 (<9:00/mi) = 5.0mi
Z1 (<10:00/mi) = 9.5mi
Z0 (>10:00/mi) = 2.6mi
Average server load in last 24 hours = 0.844
Peak load in last 24 hours = 2.6
So I got to take a leisurely five miler along the river; through the middle of Great Denham parkrun; and then a very brief bit of speedy road before sitting lakeside and watching the swimmers. There's a ladder where they climb out, with an unfortunate metal bar that has to be ducked under. The owners have wrapped thick foam around it, and I got to see first hand why, as one poor bloke climbed out of the water and hit himself square in the face.
Weekly Miles = 22.3
Z5 (<7:30/mi) = 3.1mi
Z4 (<7:50/mi) = 1.0mi
Z3 (<8:10/mi) = 1.1mi
Z2 (<9:00/mi) = 5.0mi
Z1 (<10:00/mi) = 9.5mi
Z0 (>10:00/mi) = 2.6mi
Average server load in last 24 hours = 0.844
Peak load in last 24 hours = 2.6
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Excellent!LindsD11:57am, 19th May 2019
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Rosehip12:59pm, 19th May 2019
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Sorry if this has been answered already, but is 2.6 on this server the same as 2.6 on the old server? Or does 2.6 now equate to (say) 50 on the old one in terms of absolute volume handled?Heinzster2:18pm, 19th May 2019
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It’s the same server, just an updated operating system. So the numbers are definitely comparable. The old OS imposed limits on how much RAM the database could use - which meant that during busy times, the database would have to do lots of writing to disk. The new OS allows more RAM to be utilised by the database, so it’s way more efficient.fetcheveryone2:39pm, 19th May 2019
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Seratonin7:47pm, 19th May 2019
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Nice numbersTeeBee9:09pm, 19th May 2019
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Thank you. I'm generally pretty good on programmes I use personally but servers etc are a bit of a mystery!Heinzster9:36pm, 20th May 2019
This week I've managed to do all three of my PJ sessions I used my parkrun time of 22:30 from Marston Vale parkrun about a month back as my benchmark, and I reckon if I could get under 22 in 10 weeks time, that'd be enough encouragement to keep me doing this.
Tuesday Long Run:
fetcheveryone.com/t-16255616
Thursday was Intervals (10 x 400):
fetcheveryone.com/t-16262720
(that only shows the last six, because my watch was playing up)
Today was Tempo Run (25 mins at threshold pace):
fetcheveryone.com/t-16268951
I'm pretty pleased with that as a start, although I think in the coming week, I'll change the sessions round, so I'm not doing the two speedier runs so close together.
This is all well and good, but the key is going to be stringing together a series of weeks like this, so no pats on the back yet. I've lost track of the number of times I've got back on this particular horse, only to end up going over the horsey handlebars into the bushes. Sometimes it's a little twang; sometimes it's school holidays making it harder to fit stuff in; bad weather; code problems; or a bit of apathy here and there. I'll try to post my end-of-the-week stats here over the next nine weeks of PJ; and hopefully that'll encourage me to stay on target, like all good X-Wing pilots
Weekly Miles = 17
Z5 (<7:30/mi) = 3.1mi
Z4 (<7:50/mi) = 0.9mi
Z3 (<8:10/mi) = 0.9mi
Z2 (<9:00/mi) = 4.1mi
Z1 (<10:00/mi) = 6.0mi
Z0 (>10:00/mi) = 2.0mi
Average server load in last 24 hours = 0.83
Peak load in last 24 hours = 2.91
I used my parkrun time of 22:30 from Marston Vale parkrun about a month back as my benchmark, and I reckon if I could get under 22 in 10 weeks time, that'd be enough encouragement to keep me doing this. Tuesday Long Run:
fetcheveryone.com/t-16255616
Thursday was Intervals (10 x 400):
fetcheveryone.com/t-16262720
(that only shows the last six, because my watch was playing up)
Today was Tempo Run (25 mins at threshold pace):
fetcheveryone.com/t-16268951
I'm pretty pleased with that as a start, although I think in the coming week, I'll change the sessions round, so I'm not doing the two speedier runs so close together.
This is all well and good, but the key is going to be stringing together a series of weeks like this, so no pats on the back yet. I've lost track of the number of times I've got back on this particular horse, only to end up going over the horsey handlebars into the bushes. Sometimes it's a little twang; sometimes it's school holidays making it harder to fit stuff in; bad weather; code problems; or a bit of apathy here and there. I'll try to post my end-of-the-week stats here over the next nine weeks of PJ; and hopefully that'll encourage me to stay on target, like all good X-Wing pilots
Weekly Miles = 17
Z5 (<7:30/mi) = 3.1mi
Z4 (<7:50/mi) = 0.9mi
Z3 (<8:10/mi) = 0.9mi
Z2 (<9:00/mi) = 4.1mi
Z1 (<10:00/mi) = 6.0mi
Z0 (>10:00/mi) = 2.0mi
Average server load in last 24 hours = 0.83
Peak load in last 24 hours = 2.91
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Good startRosehip
I agree that it's the keeping-it-going that's the hard bit! - Please blog weekly on PJ if you can, it might help to motivate the rest of us to stay on track
- and are you checking the registered user number as well as the server stats? looks to me like it's still climbing (?)12:17pm, 18th May 2019 -
Great start to PJ! You could always swap intervals for hills every few weeks.Sigh12:32pm, 18th May 2019
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A good start! Great that the PJ thread has woken up again, it should help to motivate a few of us.Alice the Camel12:59pm, 18th May 2019
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Well done!LindsD2:48pm, 18th May 2019
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Good goingSeratonin10:10pm, 18th May 2019
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That’s a good start 👍Eynsham Red
Could you clarify what is supposed to happen during the “rests”? Do you just sort of nimble for a few minutes or jog?10:23am, 22nd May 2019 -
Me personally, I just wander aboutfetcheveryone10:48am, 22nd May 2019
I know you'll forgive me for not writing a Fix It Friday blog for a while, but it felt a bit unnecessary to explain what I've been trying to fix
I can see from the comments on yesterday's blog that it was a bit too geeky. In short, I'm watching the server performance like a hawk, and it's doing really well. Perhaps that's all I needed to say Perhaps you can see that for yourself anyway
I also need to catch up with my "list of people who've made a contribution to the site" thing that I do. Here are the lovely people who've donated over the last two weeks, despite the site not exactly being at its best:
sleepylion
Petefastfeet
tpjh201
riggsy99
Raemond
mlmaclean
shineyheadmike
Daddy Shark
There We Are Then
SusanP
dianes22
Thanks to you all, but also thanks to everyone who's already making a contribution, however big or small. Your willingness to stick by me and the website is really wonderful during difficult moments. If you're a serial "ask me next month" person, maybe now would be good. As you've seen, we have the occasional sticky moment, but we battle through stuff. A few quid each month (the average is about £3.50), gives you a site without Google Ads (Profile > Settings if you've not already done that); a shiny gold background on your user profile; and gives me that little bit of extra breathing space to consider stuff like server upgrades, extra hamsters etc.
Here's the link: fetcheveryone.com/invite.php
Now then. Time to get back to tinkering. If you haven't seen it yet, check out Feature Voting: fetcheveryone.com/featurevoting - it's proving really useful for me, and it's hopefully a good way to give you folks the site you want.
Probably Long Eaton parkrun tomorrow morning, if any of you are nearby
I can see from the comments on yesterday's blog that it was a bit too geeky. In short, I'm watching the server performance like a hawk, and it's doing really well. Perhaps that's all I needed to say
Perhaps you can see that for yourself anyway I also need to catch up with my "list of people who've made a contribution to the site" thing that I do. Here are the lovely people who've donated over the last two weeks, despite the site not exactly being at its best:
sleepylion
Petefastfeet
tpjh201
riggsy99
Raemond
mlmaclean
shineyheadmike
Daddy Shark
There We Are Then
SusanP
dianes22
Thanks to you all, but also thanks to everyone who's already making a contribution, however big or small. Your willingness to stick by me and the website is really wonderful during difficult moments. If you're a serial "ask me next month" person, maybe now would be good. As you've seen, we have the occasional sticky moment, but we battle through stuff. A few quid each month (the average is about £3.50), gives you a site without Google Ads (Profile > Settings if you've not already done that); a shiny gold background on your user profile; and gives me that little bit of extra breathing space to consider stuff like server upgrades, extra hamsters etc.
Here's the link: fetcheveryone.com/invite.php
Now then. Time to get back to tinkering. If you haven't seen it yet, check out Feature Voting: fetcheveryone.com/featurevoting - it's proving really useful for me, and it's hopefully a good way to give you folks the site you want.
Probably Long Eaton parkrun tomorrow morning, if any of you are nearby
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Long Eaton. Tempo or part of a long run. PJ speaking?Ocelot Spleens10:25am, 17th May 2019
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Probably a tempo.fetcheveryone10:26am, 17th May 2019
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I wonder how many supporters choose not to turn off the ads, and how much difference it makes/would makeishep 🇪🇺10:37am, 17th May 2019
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I like the occasional geeky blog, you don’t usually get to hear about what’s going on under the bonnet of a website.Fragile Do Not Bend11:14am, 17th May 2019
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@FDNB - current one minute load average is 1.07fetcheveryone Highest recorded today was 3.95 at 7.40am. Next highest was 2.13 at 8.30am. *pushes glasses up nose*11:16am, 17th May 2019
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Good, that’s looking much healthier (I almost sound like I know what I’m talking about)Fragile Do Not Bend11:18am, 17th May 2019
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Great news about the numbers, btw... the site does feel quite zippy indeed nowishep 🇪🇺11:25am, 17th May 2019
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I'll be at Beeston parkrun if you fancy a change, best breakfast in the area.Chrisity10:22pm, 17th May 2019
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I also appreciate the geeky blogs, and your ability to keep us all so informed.Jenelopy3:28am, 18th May 2019
After yesterday, I thought you lot were owed a blog with a little update on the server.
Here's a screenshot I took from the server monitoring tool yesterday:
Those three 'load average' numbers represent the average server load over the last minute; the last five minutes; and the last fifteen minutes. Pretty much anything above 10 means our server is starting to have difficulties. By 25, it's largely unresponsive (in my experience). And 69? I've never seen the load get that high ever. But the fried breakfast I cooked on the lid was lovely.
Since yesterday evening, with the new-and-improved 64 bit server in place, I've been running my own little experiment. I've put a little script on the server that reports the current load. And I've set up a Raspberri Pi on my desk to call that script every five mins, and capture the results. Before you write in, the server company do sturdier stuff than this - but I was just interested in capturing some stats for my own benefit.
I've therefore measured the load 226 times since I put the script in place yesterday evening. The one minute load has been less than 1 (yes, one) on 136 samples; and less than 2 on 204 samples. The peak one minute load was 4.11 just after 9pm yesterday evening. The five minute load (which by definition will smooth out those little peaks) had a highest value of 3.29, and was less than 2 on 208 out of the 226 samples.
It's also worth bearing in mind that we do actually put extra load on the server during the UK night time. The majority of "more than 2" readings were between midnight and 2am.
I'll be tracking these readings for the next little while, to see how the machine is doing - and I liked some of the suggestions about putting some kind of "server status" on the help page. For now, I'll just do the occasional blog to explain where it's at.
I've also asked the question (posed by Dio) about why we don't have a more resilient set of disks on the server, in order to minimise outages. The answer is probably going to be in pounds, but I will let you know what the server company says
All good at Fetch Towers. I hope you're having a good Thursday. We did intervals this morning. Toot toot!
Here's a screenshot I took from the server monitoring tool yesterday:
Those three 'load average' numbers represent the average server load over the last minute; the last five minutes; and the last fifteen minutes. Pretty much anything above 10 means our server is starting to have difficulties. By 25, it's largely unresponsive (in my experience). And 69?
I've never seen the load get that high ever. But the fried breakfast I cooked on the lid was lovely. Since yesterday evening, with the new-and-improved 64 bit server in place, I've been running my own little experiment. I've put a little script on the server that reports the current load. And I've set up a Raspberri Pi on my desk to call that script every five mins, and capture the results. Before you write in, the server company do sturdier stuff than this - but I was just interested in capturing some stats for my own benefit.
I've therefore measured the load 226 times since I put the script in place yesterday evening. The one minute load has been less than 1 (yes, one) on 136 samples; and less than 2 on 204 samples. The peak one minute load was 4.11 just after 9pm yesterday evening. The five minute load (which by definition will smooth out those little peaks) had a highest value of 3.29, and was less than 2 on 208 out of the 226 samples.
It's also worth bearing in mind that we do actually put extra load on the server during the UK night time. The majority of "more than 2" readings were between midnight and 2am.
I'll be tracking these readings for the next little while, to see how the machine is doing - and I liked some of the suggestions about putting some kind of "server status" on the help page. For now, I'll just do the occasional blog to explain where it's at.
I've also asked the question (posed by Dio) about why we don't have a more resilient set of disks on the server, in order to minimise outages. The answer is probably going to be in pounds, but I will let you know what the server company says
All good at Fetch Towers. I hope you're having a good Thursday. We did intervals this morning. Toot toot!
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I don't understand much of this, but thanks for keeping us informed! And well done on the improvements!♪♫ Synge ♪♫2:03pm, 16th May 2019
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Sounds promising!ishep 🇪🇺2:03pm, 16th May 2019
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Way over my head but I did intervals today tooFenland Flier2:20pm, 16th May 2019
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Tootrunnerbean2:26pm, 16th May 2019
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I'm a simple mechanical engineer. Is the server a piece of equipment you keep in your house? Or a piece of equipment located in say Margate for example? Picture?Watford Wobble2:26pm, 16th May 2019
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Most of that went over my head but thinks for keeping us all informed and for all the hard work to get the site back up and running yesterday.Rrunner2:28pm, 16th May 2019
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Sounds good. Be interesting to see what Positive Internet come back with in terms of increased resilience / availability for your server. But seems like you've got it to an improved position yourselves already. Great work. I'm currently be-snotted so I have not done intervals. Or even any ploddage. Roll on nose and chest health.HappyG(rrr) G2:28pm, 16th May 2019
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Well done for keeping cool under trying circumstances.Helegant2:38pm, 16th May 2019
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No idea what you’re talking about but 👍🏻jennywren2:54pm, 16th May 2019
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Watford Wobble - I’m not actually sure where the machine is, and I’ve never seen it. Perhaps I should ask for a picture. It’s comforting to think of it in Margate though.fetcheveryone
For anyone confused by the numbers, the TL;DR is “low number = better. Pre-update it was on 69, which is egg-frying territory. Post-update it’s averaging about 1.2, which is cold enough to keep your milk in.”2:56pm, 16th May 2019 -
Thanks. Informative. I prefer to think of it as living somewhere along the M4 corridor with all the other software engineers.Ocelot Spleens3:08pm, 16th May 2019
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Top crisis management.....keeping your customers informed is key and you do that so well, thanks for making a crisis a minor inconvenience to us mere mortals. 😁DocM3:14pm, 16th May 2019
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Unlikely to be Margate ...um
Most likely location? Cambridge. If not London Docklands or Manchester.
positive-internet.com
There's different rules for different industries for crisis management. Eg pilots (should) learn their priority : Aviate (get the thing flying again), Navigate (don't fly into a mountain), Communicate (put the passengers out of their misery) (Hmm, could have phrased that better)
Web hosting and app management : Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
(and of course, under promise and over deliver ... if you think it will be an hour, say 3 hrs. If you think 5 mins, say 15)
I did like the touch of the message at the Fetch URL - I hope that was a quick & easy fix.
Thanks Fetch ...3:25pm, 16th May 2019 -
Oh - and I found this ... those numbers Fetch quoted..um
(since at first I thought it was utilisation %, and the numbers sounded iffy)
A single-core CPU is like a single lane of traffic. Imagine you are a bridge operator ... sometimes your bridge is so busy there are cars lined up to cross. You want to let folks know how traffic is moving on your bridge. A decent metric would be how many cars are waiting at a particular time. If no cars are waiting, incoming drivers know they can drive across right away. If cars are backed up, drivers know they're in for delays.
So, Bridge Operator, what numbering system are you going to use? How about:
0.00 means there's no traffic on the bridge at all. In fact, between 0.00 and 1.00 means there's no backup, and an arriving car will just go right on.
1.00 means the bridge is exactly at capacity. All is still good, but if traffic gets a little heavier, things are going to slow down.
over 1.00 means there's backup. How much? Well, 2.00 means that there are two lanes worth of cars total -- one lane's worth on the bridge, and one lane's worth waiting. 3.00 means there are three lane's worth total -- one lane's worth on the bridge, and two lanes' worth waiting. Etc.
Full article with pics at scoutapm.com
So in simple terms - that 69? One person was getting their task done, 69 of us were queued up ...3:42pm, 16th May 2019 -
What you need is some cloud technologybigleggy3:44pm, 16th May 2019
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To continue um’s analogy, as I understand it, one processor core is like one lane of a road. Add a second processor and you’ve got a dual carriageway, so anything less than 2 means that there’s some spare capacity. I checked our machine and it has 16 coresfetcheveryone3:47pm, 16th May 2019
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Just to check : how many cores make a Wow!um3:58pm, 16th May 2019
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Thanks for the update and great your load is going down! Yay for 64bitchunkywizard5:25pm, 16th May 2019
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Thanks for doing what you do Fetchmeister. I appreciate it.SailorSteve6:10pm, 16th May 2019
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I hope the high load between midnight and 2am UK time isn't just due to me reading fetch at lunchtime in NZ...Jenelopy10:12pm, 16th May 2019
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I don't really understand any of it but completely agree with Doc Moye.BaronessBL11:41pm, 16th May 2019
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Hope you had black pudding with your fry-up! Thanks for the update.JogWalker9:12am, 17th May 2019
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I had an incident the other week where a 16-core server had load figures in the 400s. We had to turn it off and on again.quimby8:35am, 19th May 2019
It's hard to believe, but Fetcheveryone will be 15 years old this September. I use September 5th as the anniversary date - it's the date I ran my first race, and the site started kicking off around about then.
I'm aiming to get a batch of special Fetch shirts and vests with some sort of anniversary design. If you're interested in owning one of these, and would like to be on my contact list for info as it emerges, please vote 'Yes' on feature 75:
fetcheveryone.com/featurevoting#feature75
Nice one
I'm aiming to get a batch of special Fetch shirts and vests with some sort of anniversary design. If you're interested in owning one of these, and would like to be on my contact list for info as it emerges, please vote 'Yes' on feature 75:
fetcheveryone.com/featurevoting#feature75
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Already done!Sigh
- any thoughts on dates for BFM's?7:01am, 12th May 2019 -
15 year event?Homer7:19am, 12th May 2019
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Will they say 'I'm here' on them?LindsD8:30am, 12th May 2019
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Have voted.Ness I think it’s a great idea.11:22am, 12th May 2019
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Just chuckled because I went to vote and discovered I already hadCorrah2:47pm, 12th May 2019
Well, you lot are all lovely - but I knew that already. Thank you so much for all your supportive comments on my previous blog. It helps a lot - and it's one of the reasons I know I'm in a very fortunate position. It's one of those cliches when people say "I couldn't do this without you", but in this case, it's absolute fact.
The good news is that the replacement disk drive that was installed yesterday around 6pm seems to have sorted the problem. I'd spent a week chasing my tail trying to optimise my software, but it was a hardware issue.
Since then, I've been monitoring the training data that comes across to us from Garmin (because dozens of these files were failing). We've received 1384 files today, and to the best of my knowledge, none of them have failed. Win
I've also contacted the server people to ask questions about drives, as I believe this is the second drive failure in the last 12 months - and both of these resulted in some downtime. It was my understanding that we had duplicate live drives - if one failed, the other would take over seamlessly. I'll be completely honest, server hardware and configuration is not my area of expertise - but that's also why we have the server package we do, so that all this is/should be covered. The site has been with this company for 12 years now, and on the whole I think they have done a great job. But I feel like I need some questions answered today.
You'll be pleased to know that I had a nice evening with Katie yesterday, on our second run-through of Breaking Bad. And I might also have given myself a bit of leeway on my 'no snacking or drinking' plan for May, which was nice. This morning I got out for a run in the gaps between the drizzle; and I'm just heading out to collect The Boy from school.
Thanks Fetchies. You're awesome.
The good news is that the replacement disk drive that was installed yesterday around 6pm seems to have sorted the problem. I'd spent a week chasing my tail trying to optimise my software, but it was a hardware issue.
Since then, I've been monitoring the training data that comes across to us from Garmin (because dozens of these files were failing). We've received 1384 files today, and to the best of my knowledge, none of them have failed. Win
I've also contacted the server people to ask questions about drives, as I believe this is the second drive failure in the last 12 months - and both of these resulted in some downtime. It was my understanding that we had duplicate live drives - if one failed, the other would take over seamlessly. I'll be completely honest, server hardware and configuration is not my area of expertise - but that's also why we have the server package we do, so that all this is/should be covered. The site has been with this company for 12 years now, and on the whole I think they have done a great job. But I feel like I need some questions answered today.
You'll be pleased to know that I had a nice evening with Katie yesterday, on our second run-through of Breaking Bad. And I might also have given myself a bit of leeway on my 'no snacking or drinking' plan for May, which was nice. This morning I got out for a run in the gaps between the drizzle; and I'm just heading out to collect The Boy from school.
Thanks Fetchies. You're awesome.
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I still smile when I remember an early reference by you in site info about the absence of 'a small army of off-shore developers' working on FetchEveryone.swittle2:33pm, 9th May 2019
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There is no such thing as seamless handover between hard drives, disk failures happen more often than they would admit.Ocelot Spleens2:35pm, 9th May 2019
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Fetch, give me a shout if you want some info on alternative hosting packages. Obv you will want to keep the costs to a minimum, but really, nowadays, physical servers seems a very strange way for a hosting company to offer its services. Not saying virtual servers can't have all sorts of problems too, but a failing single drive isn't one of them! Well done again. Pip pip.HappyG(rrr) G2:40pm, 9th May 2019
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Considering the manpower, cash flow, users, imports, stats, tables, forums, blogs and gawd knows whatever else that goes into it all I think you're allowed the odd tech issue BUT only now and againFenland Flier2:47pm, 9th May 2019
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Fetchpoint and personal server info updates - you don't get that from strava.TheScribbler2:49pm, 9th May 2019
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Feel free to share any hosting questions/contracts etc (or ask me what you should ask) if ever you want a second opinion or confirmation you're on the right track.um
Mind you - I've been 'retired' now for 2 years, so my knowledge may be getting out of date!
But I also suspect from responses to your last blog, there's a few others who could offer experience - if ever you wanted to reach out (and not wanting to interfere or impinge on your domain).
Thanks to both you & Katie for the commitment to the site and us lot ...2:50pm, 9th May 2019 -
You're awesome too Mr FetchTeeBee2:59pm, 9th May 2019
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^^ what TeeBee saidCorrah3:15pm, 9th May 2019
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. You are awesome. It's the keeping us up to date with issues that makes such a massive difference. ..... As for hardware thats my son's area of expertise.DocM3:24pm, 9th May 2019
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Good workBadger3:45pm, 9th May 2019
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Top man.JogWalker3:59pm, 9th May 2019
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Very glad you managed to have a nice evening despite all the headaches.Autumnleaves5:01pm, 9th May 2019
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Great work boss!snayak6:22pm, 9th May 2019
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You are awesome1step2far6:50pm, 9th May 2019
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I'm not tech savvy, but did one of the hamsters fall out of its wheel?Chrisity7:42pm, 9th May 2019
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Thank you for being younorthernslowcoach9:01pm, 9th May 2019
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Gimme a shout if you want to host it in 'the cloud'. Its the futurebigleggy9:20pm, 9th May 2019
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Virtual Servers still have hardware underneath that breaks down. It all gets stored somewhere right, the virtual bit might make it cheaper and perhaps more flexible. Perhaps.Ocelot Spleens10:25pm, 9th May 2019
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And there's a layer above / below that too for the VM host, usually, with multiple racks, power supplies, network cards etc. and even cross site failover. And the customer doesn't have to pay for all that, it's built in. It's more like old school mainframe and your virtual "server" is actually just a lump of code, not a physical anything. It's massively abstracted from the hardware. Anyhoo, enough of this techie geekery!HappyG(rrr) G10:11am, 10th May 2019
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Interesting...from what I understand about keeping things running continuously...load balancing is what we do but I don't know how much it costs. I'm not a specialist on this sort of thing but know the basics because the company I work for has this kind of thing to avoid service failures.Garfield7:30pm, 10th May 2019
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Glad you managed some down time for you and Katie amid the angst.Helegant5:50am, 12th May 2019
I've spent the whole day trying to sort out the performance issues on the server. I was supposed to be having the second of two days off today with Katie. She's been awesome, and cool with it all.
I still haven't really got to the bottom of things, and there's some weird behaviour. If you're relying on our auto-import from Garmin, please check that all your runs/rides/swims from the last few days have come across. And if they haven't, you can try the following to export a FIT file from the Garmin site, to import to Fetch: fetcheveryone.com/feedback-faq-garmin.php
However, some users have noticed that FIT files aren't importing right, which (it seems) comes down to something in the bit of third party code that decodes those FIT files. So if you're struggling to make that work, please accept my apologies, and know that I'm focusing on nothing but getting this sorted.
Head's hurting a bit now though. I know that individually, you're probably all fine with it, and could wait a day or two if it came down to it. But collectively, it's my responsibility to keep everything ok, and that's been pretty stressful today.
I've plenty to be grateful for, there are plenty worse situations I could be in, and I know how lucky I am.
Deep breath. Oof. Big oof.
If you're wandering round the forum, and you see someone having site problems, do me a solid and point them at my blog. Thanks, lovely Fetchies.
I still haven't really got to the bottom of things, and there's some weird behaviour. If you're relying on our auto-import from Garmin, please check that all your runs/rides/swims from the last few days have come across. And if they haven't, you can try the following to export a FIT file from the Garmin site, to import to Fetch: fetcheveryone.com/feedback-faq-garmin.php
However, some users have noticed that FIT files aren't importing right, which (it seems) comes down to something in the bit of third party code that decodes those FIT files. So if you're struggling to make that work, please accept my apologies, and know that I'm focusing on nothing but getting this sorted.
Head's hurting a bit now though. I know that individually, you're probably all fine with it, and could wait a day or two if it came down to it. But collectively, it's my responsibility to keep everything ok, and that's been pretty stressful today.
I've plenty to be grateful for, there are plenty worse situations I could be in, and I know how lucky I am.
Deep breath. Oof. Big oof.
If you're wandering round the forum, and you see someone having site problems, do me a solid and point them at my blog. Thanks, lovely Fetchies.
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
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If it's good news, my Garmin Connect run came through as quickly as ever just now♪♫ Synge ♪♫4:40pm, 8th May 2019
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S’ok I have you covered.....I’m overriding the power couplings and Maz is on her way....runnerbean4:56pm, 8th May 2019
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My afternoon ride has come through, not the morning one. No drama, I’ll do it manually, this is just feedback fyimegster5:23pm, 8th May 2019
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It is tough, but I can live without Fetch while you fix it.Bazoaxe7:23pm, 8th May 2019
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Put your feet up Fetch, you do an amazing job.Rrunner7:33pm, 8th May 2019
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Sorry it's been a toughie with rotten timing... it's nice that you careishep 🇪🇺7:38pm, 8th May 2019
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Thanks for working on it.Ocelot Spleens7:49pm, 8th May 2019
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I know it won’t stop your head hurting and you working away because you care. But, just know that we know you care and are doing your best and we can manage without Fetch for a bit, or without all the bells and whistles. xx.B.8:01pm, 8th May 2019
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Good work! Remember that no one expects you to be working 24-7 on anything.Jenelopy8:19pm, 8th May 2019
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Sorry you're having a horrible time. We are all rooting for you.TeeBee8:21pm, 8th May 2019
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Bad timing for the hiccups but we do appreciate all your hard work.alpenrose8:24pm, 8th May 2019
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You must have been working very hard because it's all tickety-boo now. Well, it's fine for me.RichHL8:27pm, 8th May 2019
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Go have a drink with your lovely wife xminardi8:31pm, 8th May 2019
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There’s been loads of server downtime today and my run from this afternoon hasn’t uploaded to Fetch - but happy to wait for it to be sorted in time. Enjoy your night and thanks for a fantastic site 👏👏honestmackem8:49pm, 8th May 2019
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Thanks for efforts, most appreciated. Are all Garmin imports (from today’s activities for example) meant to be there now, or should I wait a bit before I reimport? Its not urgent by the way, rest up and spend some time with Katie first.chunkywizard8:51pm, 8th May 2019
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Thanks for efforts, most appreciated. Are all Garmin imports (from today’s activities for example) meant to be there now, or should I wait a bit before I reimport? Its not urgent by the way, rest up and spend some time with Katie first.chunkywizard8:51pm, 8th May 2019
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My run this evening imported ok. Thanks for all you do, make sure you get some rest though!Fragile Do Not Bend9:00pm, 8th May 2019
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Well done fetchfleecy9:02pm, 8th May 2019
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Stop stressing and have a beer xSarahWoo9:18pm, 8th May 2019
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Lord Fetch you are a *Star*Seratonin9:59pm, 8th May 2019
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I too have a system that seems to know when I have a day off as that’s always when it seems to go down. Your efforts are much appreciated!Pothunter10:05pm, 8th May 2019
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Thanks for working so hard for us and especially for keeping us informed.DocM
Thanks to Katie too she is also awesome.
All my garmin imports have come through automatically, in their own time and not necessarily in the right order ( which doesn't matter ) . So hopefully the same will be true for others who are happy to wait and see.10:19pm, 8th May 2019 -
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Aw fetch. Have a cwtch xkatypie3:50am, 9th May 2019
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What .B. said xxLindsD6:29am, 9th May 2019
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I must be in the minority, I haven't noticed any issueswestmoors7:05am, 9th May 2019
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FWIW, my Garmin imports are all in now, without me having to do it manually! Thank you!megster7:28am, 9th May 2019
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You should have a pay rise, your dedication deserves to be rewarded.Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)7:35am, 9th May 2019
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If it's server problems, could you switch to a more "high availability" package with your hoster, so that things like disk changes can be done with no interruption to service? Or is that just more money? Most hosters using virtual servers do high availability as standard. Or maybe that's just at the big corporate level that I work with. The amount of manual effort that your hoster seems to expend with having to do physical swap outs, a more virtual offering might actually be cheaper for them as well as better for you (and us!). Well done on all your hard work.HappyG(rrr) G8:06am, 9th May 2019
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Thank you for all your hard work. And thanks to Katie for being awesome too. I had that thing with a FIT file not importing properly a few days ago and just thought it was something I'd done wrong, but perhaps it wasn't after all. Sorry you've had such a stressful time of it but just think how you'll laugh about it all one day....such as on the next podcast!BaronessBL8:33am, 9th May 2019
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All seems back to normal with response times generally this morning.♪♫ Synge ♪♫9:23am, 9th May 2019
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Hi Fetch, sorry about the timing and thank you for your work, I can’t get the red venom link to work but that may just be meSerendippily9:53am, 9th May 2019
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We care that we cant get the site to do the odd thing occasionally but we care about you more, please don't stress.D21:13pm, 9th May 2019
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We're just glad you're on it, Fetch, and know you'll get it sorted as soon as you can. Please don't get stressed!LazyDaisy2:08pm, 9th May 2019
I did several blogs this morning, just to test some issues with adding blogs. There was nothing wrong with our blog code as such, but the server was just pretty busy.
We've had a couple of mentions recently that have increased the number of sign ups to the site. Obviously, this is great on one hand - but it also means our server is handling a greater load.
Will continue to do what I can to speed things up. Thank you all for your patience and good humour.
We've had a couple of mentions recently that have increased the number of sign ups to the site. Obviously, this is great on one hand - but it also means our server is handling a greater load.
Will continue to do what I can to speed things up. Thank you all for your patience and good humour.
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
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Ah, so this’ll explain my little blip earlier? Super doops.McGoohan8:15am, 8th May 2019
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Thanks for the update.LindsD8:26am, 8th May 2019
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Pages across the site generally do seem to be refreshing slowly this morning? Good luck with the mission!♪♫ Synge ♪♫9:32am, 8th May 2019
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Does this explain why my runs from yesterday and this morning have not yet uploaded to Fetch? I've also tried manually uploading a GPX but that failed as well, so it's not just my Garmin.laterunner9:33am, 8th May 2019
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Yes, I would say so, laterunner. Do please try uploading again, but maybe later on today when things have hopefully settled.fetcheveryone9:47am, 8th May 2019
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That'll learn me to try to write a blog without reading this first. I take back all the bad swear words I may have said when it wouldn't post (although it has done now!)BaronessBL10:07am, 8th May 2019
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Thanks, Fetch. I'll do thatlaterunner10:22am, 8th May 2019
If anyone is having difficulties getting their runs across automatically from Garmin, you can try the good old manual export. Here’s how: fetcheveryone.com/feedback-faq-garmin.php
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
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Will they eventually up load if we do nothing ?DocM3:08pm, 4th May 2019
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What DocMoye asked. Happy to wait if it's just stuck in a queue somewhere.SPR3:10pm, 4th May 2019
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Garmin Connect has been having a few problems over the past 24 hours, although amusingly, its status page connect.garmin.com shows pretty much everything is OK (apart from a sync issue).Oranj3:45pm, 4th May 2019
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I’ve input two activities this afternoon, one has logged but the other hasn’t. I’ve tried usurping the option you’ve suggested but on my iPad I don’t appear to have the cog symbol referred to.Eynsham Red3:49pm, 4th May 2019
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You just read my mind!!Garfield My Garmin's run this morning didn't register yet...still hasn't yet. Now to find cord to upload the run!3:54pm, 4th May 2019
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My run from yesterday afternoon actually imported itself twice automatically, so I deleted one!Sigh6:38pm, 4th May 2019
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My run from earlier today has just come through so might be better waiting.SPR11:27pm, 4th May 2019
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The auto-upload from Garmin failed this morning and I can't even get the manual upload to work, either FIT or TCX.Oranj
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Could you try again in maybe half an hour Oranj?fetcheveryone8:27am, 8th May 2019
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Hi, It came through twice in the end, so maybe the upload was just very slow. Ta.Oranj10:34am, 8th May 2019
Morning folks
It's your regular Friday round-up of what I've been working on around the site this week. I've been really enjoying seeing how the Feature Requests tool is working. You can take a look at it here: fetcheveryone.com/featurevoting
I've also put links to it on our Feedback / Help page. Getting feedback from all of you is, IMHO, one of the reasons for the longevity of the site (15 years this September!). It's sometimes difficult to keep up with it, but I do try.
The stuff I receive through feedback broadly falls into two categories: (1) it's broken, or (2) it would be better if... [something].
I reckon category 1 should be my priority, because YOU dear reader are already here, and it's my job to make sure things run smoothly for you. But it's always good to be thinking about category 2 as well - to make sure the site continues to offer you a bit of an adventure, and new things to explore.
Responding to new feature requests up 'til recently has largely been a case of either just getting on and doing it (if the request is small), or making a note in an ever-growing private list, and eventually getting back to the person who asked, to say that I would have a good think about how and when I could do it.
Hopefully you'll agree that the stuff I do week on week does constitute quite a bit from both categories; along with a bit from category 3 ("stuff that came to me in dreams").
But the new system for category 2 stuff has the following advantages:
(a) the 250 character limit means the point has to be made clearly
(b) I get a whole bunch of other opinions on the proposed feature
(c) those who provide suggestions get some instant feedback.
(d) it feels like it's going to reduce some of my workload.
The stuff that makes its way to the top of the list* won't always be guaranteed to happen. For example, I'm strongly against editing on the forum, comments etc. Some of the mistakes we've all made over the years have been fun. I'm not sure Is It Prague? would be a thing if we had the ability to go back and edit. Airbrushing is for supermarket running magazines. Sorry.
* aside: I fully agree that we need some filter and sort options, so you can see what you've not voted for etc.
But in general, I can see that if I implement feature XYZ, it will make some people happy. And if I can do that in a way that won't impact the people who voted against it, or doesn't compromise what the site's about, then everyone's a winner.
This Week
I've not just been sitting watching the list. I've done some stuff too
1) On Saturday night, one of our https certificates was complaining that it couldn't renew. If you were up late on Saturday, you might have got a bunch of warnings when trying to view the site. The server people put a quick patch in place to resolve this, and then on Monday night, we upgraded the server operating system to resolve the initial problem.
2) On Tuesday morning, I awoke to a very slow Fetcheveryone. The server people told me that this was a wider problem (small relief, nothing I've done), which they eventually got under control. However, it came at a time when lots of you were logging your morning runs - so quite a few of the auto-imports from Garmin would have failed around this time. If you need to reimport a run, you can find a 'How To' guide here: fetcheveryone.com/feedback-faq-garmin.php
3) On Wednesday morning, I noticed that the site was pretty sluggish. I think initially this was because a bunch of Garmin imports from Tuesday were getting retried. So we effectively had double traffic from them whilst that all got resolved.
4) But even after that settled, there was still some pretty poor responsiveness when posting on the forum. This was one for me Each post in the forum is stored in our database, and each page is made by sewing together up to 10 posts. But we then store each forum page as a chunk of HTML in an individual text file. It's quicker for viewers, because our code can just grab the text file, rather than asking the database for all the relevant posts. Still with me? Good. Every time there's a new post, we remove that text file, so we can remake it with the new post added.
However... if you have too many chunks of HTML stored, it becomes a bigger overhead to find and remove/update the relevant files. This was the case here. We were holding on to cached pages that were over a month old. The likelihood is that most of these weren't being looked at (at least not regularly), so all they were doing was slowing stuff down.
I put something in place that means any cached forum page older than 20 minutes will get deleted. That means our cache has about 200-300 files to juggle, rather than the 91834 files it *was* juggling Every day's a school day
The good news is that I have some potential speed improvements to make elsewhere on the site, by making sure other caches have this balance right.
5) As part of the above, I was noticing lots of double posts on the forum. It turns out these are caused by a simple double click on the submit button. I've put stuff in place that will disable the submit button the moment it's pressed. Touch wood, this seems to have stopped it.
6) Ooh, is this why we get the occasional dodgy trade in Trader? Yes, I think so. I think I've closed that loophole (and hey, Trader players, get your heads together and sort out a feature request, then vote for it )
On then, to the significant stuff from the Feature Requests list...
FEATURE 32 Increase the gallery pic id field display, so the whole code is shown (now we've gone ast 99,999), and/or include a copy button.
FEATURE 20 Set a walking/hiking goal for the year (in the same way you can set run/bike/swim goals).
FEATURE 23
Photos work best of Fetch when they are in portrait format, but often countryside looks naturally better in landscape format. At the minute landscape photos are rendered to the width of the portrait ones. Any chance of a landscape photos option?
In this case, I've adjusted gallery so that wider-than-they-are-tall images get full screen (with comments below). Feel free to post new request if this doesn't cover it.
FEATURE 70
If you are viewing a month other than the current month in your training log, and you edit and save a particular entry, stop the log defaulting back to the current month once you have saved the changes.
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And that's it for code fixes this week. I hope that all made sense. I just wanted to add this week's list of people who stepped up to join the ranks of Fetch supporters with either a one-off donation, or the setting up of a monthly amount. They're all awesome, just like you.
Slow Al
dan.
Bobbyboy
Adorescience
Hezza63
12barDavid.
If you're one of the people who regularly click "ask me in a month", it'd be awesome if this was your month. I'll keep doing what I can to make this place the sort of place you want to be. Here's the link: fetcheveryone.com/invite.php
Have a great weekend all. Me and Katie will be around mile 22 (near Teardrop Lakes) of Milton Keynes Marathon on Monday with a box of bananas. Look out for us if you're there. Cheers.
It's your regular Friday round-up of what I've been working on around the site this week. I've been really enjoying seeing how the Feature Requests tool is working. You can take a look at it here: fetcheveryone.com/featurevoting
I've also put links to it on our Feedback / Help page. Getting feedback from all of you is, IMHO, one of the reasons for the longevity of the site (15 years this September!). It's sometimes difficult to keep up with it, but I do try.
The stuff I receive through feedback broadly falls into two categories: (1) it's broken, or (2) it would be better if... [something].
I reckon category 1 should be my priority, because YOU dear reader are already here, and it's my job to make sure things run smoothly for you. But it's always good to be thinking about category 2 as well - to make sure the site continues to offer you a bit of an adventure, and new things to explore.
Responding to new feature requests up 'til recently has largely been a case of either just getting on and doing it (if the request is small), or making a note in an ever-growing private list, and eventually getting back to the person who asked, to say that I would have a good think about how and when I could do it.
Hopefully you'll agree that the stuff I do week on week does constitute quite a bit from both categories; along with a bit from category 3 ("stuff that came to me in dreams").
But the new system for category 2 stuff has the following advantages:
(a) the 250 character limit means the point has to be made clearly
(b) I get a whole bunch of other opinions on the proposed feature
(c) those who provide suggestions get some instant feedback.
(d) it feels like it's going to reduce some of my workload.
The stuff that makes its way to the top of the list* won't always be guaranteed to happen. For example, I'm strongly against editing on the forum, comments etc. Some of the mistakes we've all made over the years have been fun. I'm not sure Is It Prague? would be a thing if we had the ability to go back and edit. Airbrushing is for supermarket running magazines. Sorry.
* aside: I fully agree that we need some filter and sort options, so you can see what you've not voted for etc.
But in general, I can see that if I implement feature XYZ, it will make some people happy. And if I can do that in a way that won't impact the people who voted against it, or doesn't compromise what the site's about, then everyone's a winner.
This Week
I've not just been sitting watching the list. I've done some stuff too
1) On Saturday night, one of our https certificates was complaining that it couldn't renew. If you were up late on Saturday, you might have got a bunch of warnings when trying to view the site. The server people put a quick patch in place to resolve this, and then on Monday night, we upgraded the server operating system to resolve the initial problem.
2) On Tuesday morning, I awoke to a very slow Fetcheveryone. The server people told me that this was a wider problem (small relief, nothing I've done), which they eventually got under control. However, it came at a time when lots of you were logging your morning runs - so quite a few of the auto-imports from Garmin would have failed around this time. If you need to reimport a run, you can find a 'How To' guide here: fetcheveryone.com/feedback-faq-garmin.php
3) On Wednesday morning, I noticed that the site was pretty sluggish. I think initially this was because a bunch of Garmin imports from Tuesday were getting retried. So we effectively had double traffic from them whilst that all got resolved.
4) But even after that settled, there was still some pretty poor responsiveness when posting on the forum. This was one for me
Each post in the forum is stored in our database, and each page is made by sewing together up to 10 posts. But we then store each forum page as a chunk of HTML in an individual text file. It's quicker for viewers, because our code can just grab the text file, rather than asking the database for all the relevant posts. Still with me? Good. Every time there's a new post, we remove that text file, so we can remake it with the new post added. However... if you have too many chunks of HTML stored, it becomes a bigger overhead to find and remove/update the relevant files. This was the case here. We were holding on to cached pages that were over a month old. The likelihood is that most of these weren't being looked at (at least not regularly), so all they were doing was slowing stuff down.
I put something in place that means any cached forum page older than 20 minutes will get deleted. That means our cache has about 200-300 files to juggle, rather than the 91834 files it *was* juggling
Every day's a school day The good news is that I have some potential speed improvements to make elsewhere on the site, by making sure other caches have this balance right.
5) As part of the above, I was noticing lots of double posts on the forum. It turns out these are caused by a simple double click on the submit button. I've put stuff in place that will disable the submit button the moment it's pressed. Touch wood, this seems to have stopped it.
6) Ooh, is this why we get the occasional dodgy trade in Trader? Yes, I think so. I think I've closed that loophole (and hey, Trader players, get your heads together and sort out a feature request, then vote for it
) On then, to the significant stuff from the Feature Requests list...
FEATURE 32 Increase the gallery pic id field display, so the whole code is shown (now we've gone ast 99,999), and/or include a copy button.
FEATURE 20 Set a walking/hiking goal for the year (in the same way you can set run/bike/swim goals).
FEATURE 23
Photos work best of Fetch when they are in portrait format, but often countryside looks naturally better in landscape format. At the minute landscape photos are rendered to the width of the portrait ones. Any chance of a landscape photos option?
In this case, I've adjusted gallery so that wider-than-they-are-tall images get full screen (with comments below). Feel free to post new request if this doesn't cover it.
FEATURE 70
If you are viewing a month other than the current month in your training log, and you edit and save a particular entry, stop the log defaulting back to the current month once you have saved the changes.
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And that's it for code fixes this week. I hope that all made sense. I just wanted to add this week's list of people who stepped up to join the ranks of Fetch supporters with either a one-off donation, or the setting up of a monthly amount. They're all awesome, just like you.
Slow Al
dan.
Bobbyboy
Adorescience
Hezza63
12barDavid.
If you're one of the people who regularly click "ask me in a month", it'd be awesome if this was your month. I'll keep doing what I can to make this place the sort of place you want to be. Here's the link: fetcheveryone.com/invite.php
Have a great weekend all. Me and Katie will be around mile 22 (near Teardrop Lakes) of Milton Keynes Marathon on Monday with a box of bananas. Look out for us if you're there. Cheers.
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
Comments
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It has been fascinating/surprising seeing how many yes/no votes there are for various things. For example, I really thought my inline pic picker (feature 80) would be really popular, but apparently not - and strangely, it even has 3 No votes, even though it wouldn't make any difference to anyone who didn't want to use it (don't worry, my feelings are intact!ishep 🇪🇺 )1:33pm, 3rd May 2019
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Good work Mr. Williamschunkywizard3:11pm, 3rd May 2019
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ishep; I thought this too, are people voting "no" because it's a feature they specifically don't want to see implemented, or are they voting no because they wouldn't use the feature?mattglen_3:51pm, 3rd May 2019
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Mattglen: fetch added a Meh button for people who just don’t care enough to vote either way, so no means no!fleecy
Great work fetch, you’ve been busy!6:17am, 4th May 2019 -
PS the edit function would ruin all the fun we have with typos and crap autocorrects. Half the in jokes on threads come from those!fleecy6:18am, 4th May 2019
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Good work, as always! Thank you.Jenelopy
I agree that category 1 needs to be a priority, too many people get distracted by the "new and shiny" and fail to maintain the bread and butter stuff.8:09pm, 4th May 2019
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Your local parkrun
Fool on the hill
Survey Follow Up
A survey?
Did you know?
I made a thing
VC Day
FBI Agent
What keeps you going?
Be careful what's in your paste buffer (and July training update)
July (13)
Delight
Respecting your eyeballs since 2004
Hot Stuff, coming through
Ocean Colour Scheme
18 years, 10 months, 13 days and counting...
Ooof #fail
Our listings need you!
Pics from the end of the swim
A whispered, half-remembered dream
Try the Heatmap!!!
Teaser
100 Running Words (and my June summary)
July Virtual Mile
June (8)
Last Big Swim
I can't be the only one...
Which is the real me?
#EveryoneDay
The legendary sixth samosa!
WSW Main Page Layout Changes
May Summary (contains swimming!)
Hoodies pre-order closes at 10am
May (17)
A new WSW challenge
Tagging images
Hoooooooooooooodies!!!!!!!!!!!
Another Sweatshop Competition
Did you get an email?
Fifty Years Ago - Part VIII
Fifty Years Ago - Part VII
Fifty Years Ago - Part VI
Help on a slippery slope
Fifty Years Ago - Part V
Fifty Years Ago - Part IV
Fifty Years Ago - Part III
Chuck-off: Round 2
Not my king?
Fifty Years Ago - Part II
Fifty Years Ago
And that was April
April (10)
Centurion Safari!
Sheep treats (and a routes feature)
And I’ll sail her up the west coast, through villages and towns.
15,746 places to 💩
Track Your Blood Pressure
A couple of quick fmail updates
Rusty Metal and a Cycling Grudge Match
Please help me kick the fmail tyres!
Onset of Summer Watch. Have you got Onset of Summer? +fmail!
Premium?
March (10)
And that was March
Try the new fmail system
Can you help my boy?
Tell A Friend?
Some Sweatshop Competitions
Sign up to our 2023 Virtual Challenge
Review: FORM Smart Goggles
UTMOST vs Treadmills
33,258
Embranglement!
February (13)
And that was February
This year's Virtual Challenge
What does Points make?
Automatic Everything Collector
Peaky Finders
FAO Fitbit users
My favourite training graph
You've got this.
Coffee Survey (for my stepson)
Access all the tips
Tiny Usability Changes
Cod science
Hot Tips
January (14)
Monthly Infographic Bug Fixes
No, but really...
Have a play with the monthly infographic
It's not ready yet, but...
Introducing Fetch Premium
Help me design a new Monthly Infographic...
Still following?
Fettle
Definitely Not Betting
Do you follow? (plus burp chat)
Advance warning for stalkers!
I'm back (and the Fetch LS, SS and NS shirts preorder is open)
Attention Fitbit Users
Review 50 albums in 2023 (badge!)
2022 (144)
December (8)
Treasure Hunt Day 1 - the best gift
Important updates to the Fetch Relay
Introducing the Fetch Relay 2023
Who Am I? (Solved, thanks) And How Am I?
Confessions :-)
12 Days of Christmas Treasure Hunt
Chewie, we’re home!
A few pics from the Foffice :-)
November (24)
Yesvember - Day #30 (and Festive Fetch Calendar Eve!)
The Fetch Festive 160.934 :-) [Yesvember #Day 29]
You'd better watch out... (plus Yesvember Day #28)
Brace Yourself (and there's one spare bobble hat!) and Yesvember - Day #26
Hats in the post! Plus Yesvember Day #25
Look what arrived!
Yesvember - Day #24
Training Graph Manager - usability update (Yesvember Day #23)
Yesvember - Day #22 - Cheating?
Last chance to enter the Advance Performance comp
Yesvember - Days #11 thru #14 (plus Jumpy Boy)
Weather on the training home page watch. Have you got weather on the training home page? (Yesvember - Day #10)
Oh, and... it's Yesvember - Day #9
Another bit of the internet fenced off
Yesvember - Day #8 - taking steps
Yesvember - Day #7
Yesvember - Day #6
Yesvember - Day #5
The curse of swimming GPS
Yesvember - Day #4
The Les Mis effect
Yesvember - Day #3
Yesvember - Day #2
Yesvember - Day #1
October (15)
October gives way to Yesvember!
Anyone fancy a threeway?
More thoughts on races
Racing, post-pandemic
Contracts exchanged!
Competition Time!
Last call for Flobble Hats
A record year for swimming?
Woburn Lido
Order your Bobble Hat! If you like.
I appear to have entered a race! (plus new Garmin import queueing system)
Eric the Eel
Get your hobbit on
The Doctor K Cup: Saturday 8th October!
I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind
September (16)
Take This Bus To Cuba
Fetch Bobble Hats
Trumpeting
Training View tweaks (switch maps, game overlays, mile markers)
Training View tweaks (and a play button bug fix)
A long ride and a cold swim.
Play Button
UTMOST Wava & Bike Division Rebuilds
New UTMOST leagues for cyclists and WAVA fans
The Doctor K Cup
Chance encounters
Do I ditch our Facebook stuff?
A keeper, from my feedback inbox...
Ultra distances - update
Adding ultra distances to Fastest Fetchies league.
Try the new Training Groups pages
August (11)
Training Groups Update - Coming Soon
Garmin Queue Issues
Donations without reference numbers :-)
New Elbow Laws
No longer the 3398th fastest Fetchie over 10k!
Pulling counties into league tables
What was I thinking?
County Champion?
Just bear in mind that you asked for this.
Wahoo and Coros users
How to make half a million quid (batteries not included)
July (6)
Club Listings
Book giveaway :-)
Updated Race Portfolio
Updated Targets Page
Exactly ***1*** Spare Ladies L Cycling Jersey
Search All Blogs :-)
June (10)
Imagine you could search all the public blogs...
Banking Scandal at Fetch Towers!
7pm on Baker Island #everyoneday
#EveryoneDay - Sunday 26th June 2022
Spare Challenge Coasters
The North West Passage
Feature Request Voting - Know Your Limits!
UTMOST Division 8: YIKES!
Shepperton Weight Gain Programme
UTMOST Division 9! Sub-50 10k :-)
May (16)
Four hours left :-)
Division 10: No hope of escape?
Book giveaway :-)
Division 11: No place left to hide
New HR Analysis
They're here! Well, not exactly *here*, but...
A quick Darth Mode update
Darth Mode! And a few biscuits for the hyperdrive.
Division 12: Two hours of pushing broom
Dark Mode: Beta
PB Potential? Fancy a quickie? ;-)
Division 12: Running Out Of Road?
Thank you everyone!
Making UTMOST moves :-)
Do you want a Fetch shirt?
I did my UTMOST :-) (plus new sharing infographic)
April (7)
Today's plan
NEW UTMOST BADGES!!!!!
A plug for some races
Raspberry Pavlov
Win a book :-)
United Colours of Cross Training
A little Streetview adventure
March (11)
The lockers are a pound.
Advice for Gym Noobs!
Feedback made easier
#EveryoneDay June 26th 2022
Fetch Virtual Challenge 2022 🎈
Thanks Chunky: parkrun routes!
Sniffer Dogs
Yikes!
Fetch Cycling Jerseys - Update
Route Plotting tweak
The Crow: A Pipedream!
February (7)
Fetch Kit Spares
Updated Race Listing Pages
Introducing Rundle!
I appear to be training for an OWS event!
Fetch Cycling Jerseys!!!
Does you wantz free shoez?
Post Office tomorrow - kit spares
January (13)
Updated Flanci Design (now with more Fetchness)
Badge Collection Graphic!
Updated elevation trace
Book Lists :-)
Updated sharing infographic - do you like it?
Spare Fetch Kit
Badge page refresh / feature requests
Flanci / Fetch Leggings
New Badge Pages
New hill badges
Join me on my fitness journey!
Are you the farmer?
Blog every day challenge - finishers
2021 (187)
December (14)
Book List
Ten years ago today...
A big slobbery elephant snog.
If you don't like hills, this must be getting tiring :-)
When does a hill end?
Hill finder - prototype v2
Hill Finder - prototype
2022 Targets
Chewie, We’re Home! Happy Fetch Independence Day!
Embed badges, plus a new badge :-)
Updated people page
Seeking map
Streak Watch
The new Fetch buffs are here…
November (23)
Almost there...
The Fetch Library
Update your thread titles
Ascent dissent
Mute a thread
Shortcuts
Training Import Queue
I fell off (but not really!)
Croeso i Fetcheveryone. Ydych chi'n siarad Almaeneg, Swedish neu Eidaleg?
New mobile nav
Last call for shirts
@
Just a trim please
Brought to you by wind power
300 miles later
Golden Ticket Shocker!
Banjobax (aka KOG)
Home and Away kit preorder - with long sleeve option
A little competition - win a copy of Daniels' Running Formula
Garmin testers - thanks
Add your grub stops!
Points Of Interest: Grub Stops
Garmin-owning testers wanted
October (19)
New home and away shirts and vests
Benchmark league - a few more updates
Benchmark league table
Hill areas
Preorder is now open!
'b'uffs then
Necktube design #1 & #2
Buffs (well, neck tubes)
Report dodgy GPS stuff
An apology for people who follow my training
New cycling and swimming badges
New Conquercise Feature: Grids
Sprouting a tiny biking antler :-)
Have a try of the cycling gradient analysis
Struggling with my big ring
Cycling: gradient vs pace
A question for cyclists
For Doctor K
Shan't.
September (14)
New comments (FID 1212)
Forum post previews
Garmin imports with a snippet more info
Gallery upload options
Golden Tickets
"No need to panic donate", says Williams
Forum Quotes
Spoiler Alert!
20th of March and all that.
Have you signed up yet?
This bit of crappy Upminister nearly cost me my f***ing life.
A guide with no pages
To steal a catchphrase from a wise lady...
Multiple choice polls
August (11)
Pre-Race Training - Updated
A connection!
New Member of the Month sponsor
Best Weeks - bug fixes
Your Best Week Ever
Rainbow Kit - preorder is open
Age Bests - filtering out the mistakes :-)
Sign up, sign up, for the Doctor K cup
A message from my lovely wife ❤️
Another batch of rainbow kit?
Spares: Event Clips, Swim Hats and a few rainbow tops
July (10)
A bunch of site goodies :-)
Hello kitty
Holy Simmering Mercury Batman!
Settings
A heart rate question
Sleepy Shuffle?
365 graph
Slipping on ma noob shoes
Meatronomes
World's Sexiest Bridges
June (11)
Benchmarks - a *tiny* little improvement
Race Leaderboards - some small improvements
Race Finder - Update
Up there ^
Routes - more updates
Last call for FE Event Clips
Server update
Minor code problem
Some little updates to your route list
Feature requests - two years on!
More than just a rainbow
May (8)
Rainbow Kit - update on delivery time...
Fetch Ron Hill Cycling Jerseys
Pre-order your rainbow kit now :-)
Jimi Hendrix vs Run DMC
The return of parkrun - a poll
Something in the woodshed...
Default to walk
A tour of the Fetch Office
April (11)
Instabanned :-)
I has Instagram
Fetch Event Clips
FERC
Castle Challenge Coaster!
My chess rating
Jab - symptom watch
This just in...
REVIEW: XMiles selection box
Let FE pay for your coaching qualifications :-)
Castle Challenge - A Quick Blog
March (18)
The Fetcheveryone Castle Challenge
Running vs Cycling Cadence
Fetch vests and shirts (and swim caps)
Elevation vs Follow Roads
£500 of England Athletics courses up for grabs!
TomTom users
Music by year: 1993
10k Analysis: Part 7 - Length of Training Runs
Music by year: 1992 (plus some 1991 additions)
Bot sniffing win :-) plus daily blogger count!
User profiles
10k Analysis: Part 6 - Training Pace Again
Time to update your injuries :-)
User profile - sticker button.. EDIT and race standard
More user profile adjustments
User Profile tweaking
Cute story of the week*
10k Analysis: Part 5 - Training Pace
February (17)
Year on Year mileage comparison
Elevation graphs
It's all kicking off in chess club!
Music By year: 1991
10k Analysis: Part 4 - Weekly Training Habits
Tagging virtual races
Chasing rainbows
Rainbow Shirts
Lance!
Blog writing improvements
10k Analysis: Part 3 - Accuracy of human predictions
Music by year: 1990
Smacking bots
29 slices - my seven days of dinner
10k Analysis: Part 2 - Age and Performance
Pass it on
10k Analysis: Part 1 - Distribution of best 10k times
January (31)
January
Mobile Usability Team Helping All Fetchies...
Salmon Ramen Recipe :-)
Salmon Ramen (for TBR)
Backup dog
The best GPS watches in the world... volume 1
Pick it...
People who liked...
Obscure bugs
Zen & The Art of Heart Rate Training
FIT file import - temporary issue
Keep the change, ya filthy animal
The honeymoon is over
Dirty data
Mobile Usability
Oops
Readership!
Stay sticky
It's Hip To Buy Squares
Related Threads - Exposé :-)
The Batshit Association
Jobs
Tag Team
Feed the monster!
An ad for Fetch Chess Club :-)
Estimating VO2Max
Three little birds
A not uncommon swelling
Church Mouse January
Honey, where's my super suit?
Not here.
2020 (128)
December (6)
Blog A Day 2021?
9 years ago today
Chewie, We're Home! Happy Fetch Independence Day :-)
Be Prepared
Becoming an effluencer
A few Fetch Mugs left
November (10)
The Festive Fetch Calendar is back!
FIT file import
Mugs!
Thank you, mysterious Fetchie!
Chess
UTMOST in the age of COVID-19
This'll cheer you up for sure...
Lost in translation?
Annual Infographic... updating now.
In theory...
October (11)
Training Plan Analysis
Mini plans with the training plan
5k with The Boy :-)
Welcome to tomorrow
Thank you
Become tradeable!
Pre-Race Training Volume
Doctor K Cup Week
Last orders
Advice for a friend
Trader Makeover
September (6)
The shop is open!
Hoodie Colour!
New Fetch Hoodies
A big up/holler!
VO2max
A benchmark derailed by GPS data *nerd*
August (8)
10k analysis
Officially a Sheepy Shuffler!
Pi Watering
Pre-order Avoid Everyone Face Masks
I got sent these...
Other sites? :-O
Benchmarks - an infinitely configurable set of ladders.
Try the monthly infographic :-)
July (10)
Update on Monthly Training Infographic
New Infographic
Monthly Summary (with a little tweak)
A quick Garmin update
Open Water / Wild Swimming Database
Avoid Everyone - spares
OWS Locations
Thread-level search
New Sharing Graphic & New Pastures
My first lamp post
June (16)
Replacing the Who's Training page
Combining some pages
In pursuit of the Gridmaster Ultra
15th Anniversary Kit - Spares
Shoelaces
A new How To video
Training Plan Updated
Black Lives Matter
Avoid Everyone Spares + Second Batch
Wikipedia page
Another YouTube video for sharesies :-)
Getting data to Fetch from **other places**
Feature Voting - some further updates
Feature Voting - speeded up
Another How To video - this time, Conquercise
Fantastisches Tweeten
May (13)
A video for sharing
Bees!
Fetch Introductory Zoom Presentations
A promise to all Fetchies
Fetch Virtual Weekend: Replacement Bus Service
How has Fetch use changed?
Fetch Weekly Virtual Races
Zoom Meeting - Thursday 9 til 10am
WAVA Standards Update
WAVA Standards + Poll
Fun with Age Grading :-)
New Badges Day
The test shirt fabric has arrived :-)
April (14)
Zoom Podcast - watch the video
What is WBC?
If you did the free Amazon trial...
Some small amends (and shirt version)
Pre-orders open
I was only joking, but...
If Fetcheveryone did lockdown merch
Site outage - Thursday 16th April 11pm
On exercising responsibly
My Sports Quiz - how would you have scored?
Your creative thinking required
WBC My Favourite Teacher (a bit later than the deadline)
Updated Training League
Server Downtime, Thursday 9th 00:01BST to 04:00BST (and thank you!)
March (13)
New Fetch Game: Hide and Seek
Free trial of Audible
Do you have a good memory?
New Opt-In for Fetch Miles
New Badges for Fetch Miles
The Fetch Five: Don't Let CV19 Win!
Amending event dates and notifying of cancellations
A green light comes on over your head, and you can get on with life
Most Popular Shoe Brands 2019
A review
Android: Session I
Compare Your Training
Book Now to avoid disappointment :-)
February (10)
Imports from Suunto, Fitbit, Polar and TomTom.
Plot A Route - mobile improvements
Happy tugging!
Something to play with
Adding A New Feature
February Treasure Hunt
Server Downtime
Miles = Smiles
Build Your Mile
Pop Will Eat Himself: Update
January (11)
Clarence the Cadence Kitten
Trim your trails :-)
Seven Day Leaderboard
Let's try that again
Some minor blog amendments
Try the new Forum Search Prototype
Pop Will Eat Himself
A card from HowFar?
Thank you HowFar? (Statement, not a question)
Take the red pill
Climb every mountain
2019 (134)
December (7)
The Christmas Poem
Where your treasure is...
Listen to the dog breathe
Chewie, We're Home
Thursday's Challenge
Which GPS?
Fetch Shop (of sorts)
November (12)
The zeroth challenge
Polar users - auto import
Calling all Polar users
Mobile Optimisation
Calling all Android users
Did your ads disappear?
Pin that sucker down :-)
Easier tagging
Category now editable from VIEW
Kit now editable from VIEW
Working towards tagging
Manual Add Training bug
October (16)
Boring Cricket Blog
Books Part 2
Books :-)
42
Training tags Part 2
Training tags
Let's Jazzercise
My precious
Cricket Week 4: Footage :-)
Forum Training Threads
Benny Neutrino Returns
Cricket Week 3: Wingardium Leviosa!
Benny Neutrino's Filter Tips
Cricket Week 2
Continuing Amazon Affiliate Saga
In case you haven't seen...
September (11)
Updated: Spare Anniversary Kit
Affiliate links
I did a cricket!
Fetch365 - enjoy responsibly
Filth
My dear old things
Buddies vs Follow
Server Invoice Day
Our new MOTM sponsor
Fetch Power!
Race Listings: Please Read
August (5)
Everyone *rainbow*
Almost there...
Quick blog
Country Badges
A new set of badges
July (6)
Pre-orders open
Anniversary Shirts v2
Fetch 15th Anniversary Shirts
Fetch Fest 2020
Shout Outs
Missing imports from Garmin yesterday
June (13)
Who Squares Wins: 64 screenshot
Who Squares Wins: 64 Player Edition
Training summary - older pages
Training sub-menu rejig
Try the infographic
Steady Edina
Annual Summary Infographic
The height of daft things
The training summary - the morning session
The training summary - a wordier blog
Try the annual summary thing
How to listen to the Fetch Podcast
12 month summary mega-graph!
May (15)
£79.99 off the bottom line
Competition
parkrun reviews - now with routes
Fix It Friday; Project Joker Week 2; and some shout outs.
Fetch Kit Cupboard Sale
The bonus ball
Project Joker - Week 1
Fix It Friday
A quick update on the server
Fetch 15th Anniversary Kit
There is a good service operating
Oof.
In case you're wondering...
Trouble auto importing from Garmin?
Fix It Friday: Stuff that came to me in dreams
April (12)
Feature Voting - now with virtual badges :-)
The moment of triumph!
New Feature Voting
Fix It Friday: What would your horse be called?
Marathon Pacing: tyre-kickers required
Fix It Friday: Back to Basics
Podcast Poll
Fix It Friday: The League Of Everyone
Dom, dom, dom, I've got DOMS, I've got DOMS!
Crouch, Touch, Pause.... longer pause... what am I doing again?
Training Log - Update
Site Update: New Font
March (15)
Fix It Friday: An Endless Mission
Naming and faming :-)
2nd in my age category!
Fix It Friday: Brought to you by Surprise Inset Day
New training log
Route Matching - Ready :-)
Fix It Friday
What's your unit of measurement?
Ciderthon competition
Fix It Friday: Stroopwafels of Doom!
Route Matching - Update
This week's cool list
Me in the river
Big Fetch Miles 2019
Fix It Friday: Fingerprints!
February (13)
A Maths Challenge
Fetch Legends: Activate!
Whose coat is this jacket?
Fix It Friday: The Fix Awakens
Joining the awesome list...
Fix It Friday
Naming and faming :-)
Fix It Friday - Monthly Summary
Training Month Summary
Podcast Q&A
If you can't read this, don't panic.
*redsaber* The force is strong with these Fetchies!
Fix It Friday *bluesaber*
January (9)
Some shout outs :-)
Fix It Friday!
Podcast Ep 3, plus some naming and faming :-)
Fix It Friday
Fetch Chaos
Oooh! Second chance Berlin trip! And new subbers, podcast episode, and Trader.
My week of running
Naming and faming - this week :-)
Naming and faming :-)
2018 (138)
December (8)
A Christmas Message (in podcast form)
Rungeon :-)
Hey, Everyone!
France Trip Vote
Happy Fetch Independence Day
Actual free trip to France (incl. flights)
Litter
Sombrero's Lovely Cards
November (14)
Hoodies + other spares
Spare Fetch Kit
Festive Fetch Calendar 2018
Avatars
Book Giveaway - Can We Run With You, Grandfather?
Fix It Friday
Bedford Harriers Half - place offered
Updated Kit Bag
Family Fortunes :-)
Any adidas experts out there?
No Fixes Today - just two challenges
Big Fetch Mile Cardiff
Fix It Friday
Festive Fetch Calendar 2018
October (14)
Hello landlubbers
Embedded polls
Member of the Month
Fix It Friday
Spare Fetch shirts and vests
Abingdon
Fix It Friday
My Fetch Mile
One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner.
Fix It Friday - 'Ave It!
Automatic route matching
Automatic route matching
One last reminder for those cycling jerseys
Fix It Friday - Forensics and User Experience
September (14)
Fix It Friday
Server Downtime 2.30pm 26th September
Never Again
Fix It Friday!
Handling your weirdness
Cards ordered :-)
Just wondering...
Fix It Friday :-)
Try the Fetcheveryone Tutorial
40 days and 40 nights
Fix It Friday
ARION insoles - review part 1
Fetch Shirt - Black Ones, and sizing
Shirts and Vests Pre-Order
August (14)
Fix It Friday
Blog Height squished
Site Outage Last Night
New Mobile Nav
Fix It Friday
New feature - how you doin'? :-)
Sunflower spread
Fix It Friday
A new pre-race mileage graph
Fetch Social: Draycote Water September
Fix It Friday: The Supermarket Analogy
A run with _andy :-)
Suunto 9 Review
Fix it Friday
July (5)
Fix It Friday!
Five Get Wet In Devon
Big Glasgow Weekend - Part 1: Gies A Cwtch
Tom Williams Interview - Final Part
Glasgow Big Fetch Mile Results and Pics
June (17)
Abingdon Week 17 - P&D Booster rockets
Interviewing Tom Williams: Part III
Walking League (and one just for Nellers)
Follow Roads - continued
Week 18 in the bag
Tackling turds
Abingdon Marathon Training: Week 18
Interview with Tom Williams - Part 2
Server
Five Questions (ready for serious answers)
Kick some tyres for me
Interview with Tom Williams - Part 1
Five Questions
Follow Roads saga
Google maps progress, plus Abingdon plans
Training Summary - Infographics
Who Squares Wins - ranking update
May (10)
Training log maps converted
More mapping updates
Who Squares Wins - The Wizard's Hat
De doo doo doo... another one bites the dust...
Invisible changes
Silverstone 10k
Three year throwback
Why your support makes the difference
Some high mileage Fetchies
dryrobe winner
April (14)
Interviewing Tom Williams
Swimming Caps!
#finishformatt
New batch of shirts and vests
You make big mistake my friend
Fetchpoint
Glasgow Big Fetch Mile announced
Two tickets to the Running Awards
Pics from Dudley Big Fetch Mile
Notes for London Marathon Fetchpointers
Results from today's Big Fetch Mile
Who Squares Wins - prototype board
Attention London Marathoners!
New game - coming soon
March (9)
Intervals, Solidarity, Swimming and Fmail
Ready to give the new fmail a try?
More on fmail
New fmail system
Win a dryrobe :-)
For jabberknit...
Updating the Training Home page
Pics from Bedford Big Fetch Mile
Sledgends :-)
February (13)
Buffs On Sale
Big Fetch Mile Bedford
Vlog :-)
Marathon Talk
Important GDPR stuff - PLEASE read
A page of historical importance
Vlog :-)
Road Rash, Marathon Prediction and T-Shirts
This :-)
Capturing the dog
It's BACK!
Enter Wilmslow Half Marathon
An advertisement
January (6)
Local Fetchies - Opt In
Revealed: World's Best Shoes
How I chose the Big Fetch Mile venues
Big Fetch Mile 2018 - Venues & Provisional Dates
Try adding an image to your training entry
Mileage Targets 2018 - Update
2017 (147)
December (12)
Mileage Targets 2018
Thank you
Brownie Recipe :-)
Phew
Fetch Hoodies + Buffs SALE Update
Chewie, We're Home
Fetch Hoodies SALE - what's left
Fetch Hoodies! SALE!!! (and Buffs available too)
Chewie, We're Home
Sharing pics
Fetch Jingle Mile Cambridge photos
Glorious Failure: Bedford Harriers Half Marathon
November (20)
Serpents, hamstrings and inversions
A special anniversary approaches...
Hamstring and prototype updates
Training Log Prototype - Today's Improvements
Red Venom sale
For what it's worth...
Training Log Prototype - Update #2
Training Log Prototype - Update
Big Fetch Mile - venue hunt
RT for a Garmin
Training Log Prototype - To Be Fixed
fetcheveryone.com/amazon
The Weekly vLog (by me)
Thanks :-)
New Training Log Prototype - Available Now
Thanks for following
VLog - footage from the Cardiff Big Fetch Mile
Big Fetch Mile[s] 2018
Win a place in the Surrey Half
I vont to scan your barcode.
October (12)
Big Fetch Weekend :-)
Fetch Mile Results
Festive Fetch Calendar :-O
Calling Parkers everywhere!
In which I decorate a cake.
Regent's Park Fetchie Discount
Elevation in colour
"I didn't come here to walk to Sparta!"
New elevation info
Chicken Ballot-ine, with a side order of beef
New training log headers
Ballot day tomorrow - help needed
September (19)
Weekly vLog - COCONUTS!!!
River Thames Half Marathon
The lollipop update
On failing gracefully
Doctor K Day
Fetch Kit Sale - Updates
Weekly vLog
Fetch Kit Sale
Training Log View Update
Fetcheveryone Weekly? Vlog?
Fetchie Race Discount - Regent's Park 10k
Training Log Tags - Live
Training Log Tags
Weekly vLog - Derby Mile, and a pause to salute the legendary Doctor K
24 hours later
Doctor K donation page
Doctor K
Fetch Weekly vLog
Derby Mile - tomorrow!
August (8)
Race Prices; and an alien earworm
Straight outta Cromford - the Fetch Weekly vLog!
A Fetch vLog! With prizes!
Quick search location for sharing
New WAVA graph
Weird FIT file thing
Back from me 'olidays :-)
Linking race results to training log entries
July (12)
Race Pricing - crowdsourcing
Appdate for Android and iPhone
Inhalers
Fetch Mile - Cardiff?
Bookends
Race listing omelette
Coding and town planning
Please review your races
A2B winners
Motivational Sounds - the final 10
Two more Big Fetch Miles? :-)
Bedford Fetch Mile Results
June (19)
Big Fetch Mile
Motivational Sounds
Fetch fug - updated design
Fetch fug (available at the Fetch mile)
I've done the naughtiest thing ever.
Donating Blood - my Vlog
Fapp In the App Store :-)
Can I kick it?
A***biscuits
This just in...
For Bean
Your app status is Waiting For Review
A2B
Fetch Caps
Garmin Communicator Plugin
Fetch App - strong and stable testing
HTTPS is here
Fetch App progress
https access to the site
May (14)
Fetch App
Apostrophes
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Site down at 11pm
Round and round the garden
Try the new home page layout
Server down tonight @ 11pm
Browser testers wanted
The Big Fetch Mile!!!
Site *NOT* down tonight. [cough]
Bluffer's Competition - Winner
Bedford parkrun timelapse
Return of the cap
April (8)
Fetchpoint (London and Milton Keynes!)
Base camp, VMLM
Bronze!
Just for D2
Off to the awards
Bloodvlog
Hoodies - it's on!
Updated Training Home Page
March (6)
'Train' page
Project Joker
Hoodies and Londons
Hands up, hands UP! Draycote Water 10
Bluffer's Competition
Project Joker
February (12)
Draggable?
Running Awards shortlisted
Route Plotter now with OpenStreetMap
Plan for Bluffer's comp
Update to Route Plotter
First update to the route mapper
For Angus
Virtuous Circles
Competition coming soon
Race Guide Ads
Club La Santa vLog
Fetch Fixtures
January (5)
Word Clouds
Buckets Ready
New Home Page
Do me a favour...
Limited Companies, filing accounts, that sort of thing
2016 (128)
December (11)
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
Five Years Ago Today
Pantsfest! May the stains be ever in your favour!
#FEXIT
Photoshop SOS
Attention: Fitbit users
Bedford Half 2016
Luton Fetchmob: Breaking Point
Vote Fetch!
Breaking news: Paris Marathon
November (21)
How to end a LiveChat.
Define wrong
TomTom Runner 3 Review - Any Questions?
Deliveryman
Movember: Project Beard: Day 24: Beardraggled
Festive Fetch Calendar 2016
We're gonna be in the Hudson
Hey Chiefy
I've written summat
Going Postal
A special mention
Training Log Beta
Spare Hoodies
Updates to Training Beta
Movember: Project Beard - Day 8 (The Seven Day Itch)
Vote for Fetch
Training Log Detail View - Some Changes
Aberdeen University Study
Consultation V2
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Fetchpoint - October Winners and November Prizes
October (16)
Alien nuggets!
Keeping a tight lid on the biscuit tin
Training Log Beta
100 Running Words
Pssst....
Fetchmob, December 3rd
Where to mob?
Little things
That All-Time Mileage League
The sudoku that keeps on giving.
Sub-25 for 1km :-)
Fetchmob - December 3rd
New Training Log Preview
Fixed the overlap...
Why the new training log isn't ready yet...
vLog
September (12)
Doughnut or Donate
Training Log - Sneak Peek
Fetch Shop Sale! Old stuff clearout!
vLog!!!
The consultation system...
Garmin support for timezone info
The GMT/BST/Timezone problem
Training Log Consultation...
Training Log - Consultation
Fetch Social Runs
Subscriber shirts, vests and hoodies, and determination.
Fetch Voluntary Subscriptions
August (3)
Ze Gryndylows! My first #OWS :-)
Testing Fetchpoint exclusion zones
Fetchpoint scoring system
July (7)
Conquercise Prize Draw?
Fetch Games: Checkpoints (and what's wrong with them)
More owls...
Your Favourite Fetch Game?
Even More Utmost Than Before...
Chiswick!
15 days later...
June (10)
Five days on...
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A quick thank you...
What do you think?
If you'd be so kind...
Poised
Which watch?
Run Bedford 10k
Import from a TomTom
Attention TomTom users
May (10)
Race Distance poll
An ungainly fish
A five year plan
What Club La Santa can learn from parkrun
Cream Me Up, Scotty
Greetings from Club La Santa
And a quick poll...
Club Charter
A poll about intervals
More owls!
April (11)
Robin Hood and his Merry Dad :-)
Warning: Dull - some screen res stats
Responsive Design Update
For all you marathoners
A Poll
Fetchpoint
Ditching the forum categories?
Moving to Responsive Design
Sandy 10: Be Kind To Horses
Owls!
For Adam and Jamie
March (11)
Bacon Smoke!
Benchmarks Update
Bath - Race Report
PB!!!!!!!
An annoying eight-year-old.
Let's Cook and Cut and Paste :-)
Let's Cook :-)
RIP Gramma
Book Winners
Dog farming
Site header update
February (5)
Book Giveaway
Pi Club
Pi Project Update
Because I'd like to check the blogging badges are working...
Crapruary
January (11)
Snooker Freak
Badges - Another Update
Unlockable Badges - Update
Unlockable Badges
TomTom Runner 2 Review
Gallery updates
Snowball coding and Fetch Unlockables!
Achievement Medals - what do you reckon?
Run The Sum
2015 Book List (and a bit of a review / plan)
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
2015 (175)
December (7)
Red Red Wine
A Poll
Gis a job!
Bedford Half
REMEMBER!!!
Vote for Fetch
Now you've hopefully got the idea...
November (13)
The Festive Fetch Calendar
Don't get excited or anything...
Slightly Dismal Friday
Pre-order your Fetch Buff now :-)
A message from our sponsor
Dr Fetch will see you now
Only the grumbliest, achiest chocolate... :-)
The Stanford Experiment
Buff Design
Snugs - Review
Love, Commitment, Support
The pre-wedding blog!
Good morning Fetchers, good morning Everyone
October (9)
Monthly Totals
Did you write a blog yesterday?
The First Rule of Web Server Maintenance
The gain line
Fectch
The zipper challenge!
Sugar daddy
Now in colour!
Competition Time!!!
September (14)
Teach your kids (or yourself) to code
Sticky Training Choices
Goodies: GetMore water and the Alcatel OneTouch Watch
Shirt size guidelines
This nearly made it...
Subscriber Shirt Design
I've got wood!
Humbled
New Beginnings
Some more questions answered
Swimming
Some responses to your comments
Standing on the shoulders of Fetchies
Funtleks
August (8)
24 hours in the south
24 hours in the north
Fetchies Assemble!
Thank you
Better knowledge than riches
Fitbit Urge
The villainous Mr Fetch!
Uncomfortable rear
July (8)
Why don't you play Conquercise?
Another week of strange training
Book Giveaway - Winners
GPS Reviews
Criteria for reviewing a GPS
Auto-bike-detector :-)
Win some bookses :-)
Half Way!
June (13)
Time Lapse Clouds
TomTom Bandit - very QUICK first impressions
My wings are like a shield of steel!
Running plus Cycling update
Embarrassingly...
Stalkers Paradise!
Recommend me a bike :-)
Holy Steamrollers Batman!
Rest day (no such thing)
Sqveeeeze!
We will now imitate the flight of a goose :-)
You made me ink! Snorkel safari :-)
Good morning from CLS :-)
May (10)
Club La Santa :-)
The AWESOME Power of Fetchies!
Home Insurance Shaftage :-/
Editing Forum Posts
The Future!
Some London Marathon stats
Walking On The Moon
Hardest parkrun?
New found wisdom
Week 1
April (11)
Marathon vLog
I owe some hugs!
And that concludes the voting from the Danish judges
Adventures in geocaching
Your video clips wanted!
Jelly with no spoons
Random Ultra
Suncream in my eyes - a review of 'Running and Stuff'
Books what I've read this year
Measuring the effect of wind
Wind Roses
March (18)
Watching the tide roll away
A great week of running!
Happy Jigs Wisdom!
Mobile Fetch
I don't do this very often...
Breathless Optimism
20 miles yesterday
This Week's vLog
Decision Trees and the sub-4!
Democracy Street
Mayan Maths
Bath Half (at last)
Still a chicken
Costume Drama in Bath
TomTom importing
Updated 'Train' page
Zonked
Nearly
February (29)
Pheasant
An Unexpected Journey
Wind picking up...
An unplanned kit alarm
Race Pace Test
2nd place
Week ends
Bounceback
Barking carrots
Bedroom pizza
Top of the mountain
Blogs get the mobile treatment
Supersonic Katie, and a marathon pace question
Back home
Racing parkrun ;-)
Unblocking the sink
Start in Darkness
Some times I'd like
Mobile Site - Forum Section
All-Time Leaderboards
Batteries
Sword fighting
PB Attempts
Duct tape and WD40
Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants
Lessons
Shoe horning
Training vLog Week 13
Big February Project
January (35)
Cake, invalidated
Small sips
LiRF, award shortlist, beginners, books, boy.
Dog Available :-)
Cutback
New Recipe Section
Lazy
Another threshold run
New Beginnings
Blah
But far more importantly...
Fetch Beginners Programme
Give it a go :-)
Training vLog - Week 11
Threshold Run (a running blog)
Long day, short blog
(Lack of) Pump Action
A thread to follow
This Boy Can
Local Leaderboards for Checkpoints
Choking.
February 18th
Godzilla!
The Travelling Checkpoint Salesman
Acorn Antiques
Bearing Up
Deleted Bridges and Dodgy Lasers
I'm Batman!
Healthy and Appy
Punch O'Clock!
The plan, then.
Ten mile toes
On Parliament
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Bold Claims, and a Challenge for 2015
2014 (262)
December (9)
A trip to Wales (vLog)
Christmas Messages from Fetchies
Various
FERC London Marathon Places - Draw
It's gone in my sock...
Festive Fetch Five
This Week's Training
To the Post Office!
Training vLog - Week 4
November (12)
I Am Groot!
Slightly Dismal Friday
Week 3 - in which I nearly drown my wife!
I said yes :-)
Free Daps! aka Test GORE-TEX® footwear this winter!
Training vLog - Week 2
More chances for VMLM entries
Marathon Talk
My first training vLog :-)
Second place?
In :-)
Questionnaire about personality traits amongst runners
October (16)
Adidas API
Horseplay minimiser
Running with the big dog
Flat and Windy
Who'd like to test the Garmin API then?
Advantage Borg
Deal?
Jumble
Milk Tray Reps in the Rain
Geneva
Quote
Hatfield 5k, and some other running thoughts
Site layout changes
Vote for Training Plans
Maths help
3-2-1
September (8)
A quick device poll
Garmin Connect API
Cake at the lake :-)
Empowering Women
This Week's Training
Tick :-)
Article help
First outing with the Harriets
August (7)
Book club and Harriers
A treasure trove for bookish types
What I did on my Summer Holidays
Local decoration
The Fisher King
Mojitos and no mosquitos!
Cake-athlon
July (26)
James Mason
Missing Week
Camping View
Wild Camping
Quick
Transalpine Race
In brief
Urgent! Pair of runners wanted!
Fetch Kit Available to Pre-order :-)
Fetch Anniversary Kit - Preview
API and FAK!
That dog has a puffy tail
More books
Reverse Moses
Zombies vs Plants
Shovel required
Nightfever
Dayfever
Catcher in the Rye
My sister the psychologist
Drink your strong limey drink
Keep me in the loop
Bread knives, hedgehogs and the dog in the night time
Whoops
Pinteresting
Q&A?
June (34)
Checkpoints video
Walden
Happy boys and giggly imps
Spring loaded
Elbow grease
Fetch 10th Anniversary Kit
Fetch YouTube Tutorial - Race Guide
Finding the Library folder on a Mac
Stoat!
Sonic screwdriver
Live wires
Wiring help needed
Garmin Express Experiment
Scalded sloth
Garminge
Potching
New Forum Layout
Further updates to the blog layout
New blog layout
First woodpecker
Beastin' parkrun
Pantoball
All was well
USA! USA! USA!
Marking Territory
The People's Poet Is Dead :-(
Holy Water
Throwing shapes
Life moves pretty fast
Recursion is beautiful
Win an OS Explorer / Landranger map of your choice
Intervals with a Suunto Ambit 2S
Tick
Economy done two ways
May (31)
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Vorsprung Durch Lego Technic
How do I liberate my boy from his XBox?
Questions?
Life in the Woods
Lazy
MovesMissed
Intervals with a TomTom
Electioneering
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Tree fluff
More camping
Zen and Camping
Not eaten by bears
Bear food
Camping List
Camping Venn Diagrams
Floppy dog
Routes but not Rathbone
Illustrator wanted
Masking
Highlights
The Cosmic Ballet Goes On
Silverstone 10k :-)
Quick one
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Superhuman snooker
Dogturdflagman
Numbers!
Whittlin'
Chapter 1
April (29)
King Bin
Quiet day on Feedback Mountain
Listing
42
Go directly to parkrun. Do not pass Godzuki.
A day in Wales
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Spanner
The Lost Diadem of Fetchbook
Falling asleep in my dinner
Egg
Sofathon
God gave rock and roll to you.
Sugar Mule
Not bad, consid'rin.
Tinkering
Can U Dig It?
A weekend in Wales
Looking forward to Oliver!
Thank you, and more App talk
RIP Nan
Blah
Appy
Pyjamas at both ends.
Thump. Saturday has started.
Sore tum :-/
Zombies aside... first impressions of the new TomTom
TomTom Runner Cardio Press Event
Am I pregnant?
March (31)
Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes
Sandy 10
#bedfordhappy
Me on YouTube
New graphs live
Follow the dot
Only the best for the Captain's table
Mrs Diahann Wagner is GOING HORNY
Sport Relief Win
Hot dogs, quick blogs
Toton Sidings
A sign!
Owen Farrell visualisation technique
Kebabs!
Booster fails to ignite
Myton Rugby Run (5 Miler)
Rugby before rugby
Sweetcorn antidote
Custard factory
Pooped
I did some intervals :-)
Speed work?
Many things
A bit cabbagey here.
Angry Wasp
Minty
Rainbow's End
Core Dump
Bath Half (in detail)
A quick overview
Down to business in Bath
February (28)
Made it to Bath
Unexpected hugs
Slider
I like to go a-wandering
Spring cleaning
Tongue-lolling
Because We're Worth It
I don't know what!
Thanks Jim
Enough now
Clearing the pipes
Crouch, Touch, Pause...
Medication, that's what you need.
Symptom Tour
Hello FBI
Dazed day
Why I'm an optimist
Mobius birds
Snotty knuckles
In this house...
Retch Everyone
Carrots
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
Ultrahalfmarathoner
Angry Birds
Belching
Clarkson averse
Good day :-)
January (31)
*bunting* *cake*
Bigger Boys
Zombies!
Pretending to be Saga Norén
Waiting for the AA
Ship shape
Readthrough
Technology takes you further
Love Garden
Cushions
High Heel Striker
Bit of a rubbish one
Ta
Hot Re-fills
Coding Grinch
An august prediction
Some Running Goals for Q1
Wipe-clean dog
Breaking it down
Snakes and Ladders
Bigger Ponds
Drink Your Weak Lemon Drink
All in All
Panning the pancake
Does JK Rowling own a dog?
Back to the kitchen table
Steve Davis shoes
Pigs on a water slide
Sloshing
Protocol
19 books :-)
2013 (29)
December (3)
Oh...
Engine Management Light
Hannibal Vector
November (3)
Speed skating
Stew-pendous
Cool Hand Grandpa
October (3)
Bookish
Minecraft Cake
Random dump
September (2)
Blog by Email!
Catchup blah
August (3)
Big Green Caterpillar
Questions answered - final CLS blog
Last Days at Club La Santa
July (10)
A nice morning of swimming and tennis
Please Read: Questions for a sports coach
Snorkeltastic
Hitting the straps
First Impressions at Club La Santa
Mile High Blog
Clocking off
For the second week running...
Another Club La Santa catchup
The Floor In The Plan
June (3)
Club La Santa
Bulk Uploading, and win a book
FERC Charities 2011-2012
March (1)
Bath Weekend
January (1)
Meet Steve
2012 (39)
December (2)
Tired Now Boss
Bath - Week 14 + Foodbank
November (3)
White Level Reading
Bath - Week 15
Bath - Week 16
October (2)
Onwards!
C'mon Dave
July (1)
RIP Arnie
June (2)
Rub some bacon on it
18 weeks
May (9)
Techy not tetchy
Time for a techy blog
Time to walk the dog
Stevington 12k
Properly coldy
Still a bit coldy
New blog design live
A bit coldy
Blogs Redesign
April (2)
Easter
SERIOUSLY LORD FETCH, SORT IT OUT
March (8)
A long run up
Running Tick
Weekend
Sport Relief Mile
Back once again
Swimming sweetcorn and other vegetables
Joy Rides, Sticks and Medals
Training Tip
February (9)
And...
Katie, ICT, and some more MySQL
May The Ground Force Be With You
Functions
Well done Batman.
Optimisation Crossword
Snow Days
Gallery, and parkrun
Pleased
January (1)
There Are Some Really Sexy Girls On Fetch
Comments
Probably more relevant though is that I used a Linux laptop as my main machine for several years running OpenOffice but actually now use google docs for my own stuff. I’m quite a fan of google sheets in particular.
Not only is the the freedom to use different operating systems nice, the freedom for it to be any machine is great
I liked the idea, but I'd happily find the same info from the monthly summary. Maybe the option to look up a specific month in the summary page instead, achieves the same thing? For all I know, we can already do that and I've not noticed.
Sorry for the long comment! Keep up the great work
I tried to teach my Singapore counterpart to swear better in English - but she ended up teaching me more Cantonese and Wu curses than I'm likely to need
So I'll ask instead, how is the Google maps thing going? Avoiding large bills? I seldom use it now but did the other day when I needed a couple of satellite views on something. Does a map call, then a satellite call count as two chargeable calls? What if I then zoom, or move, the map?
Or even put the Pretty Colour Thing at the top of the list of "Entries" - both pages consist largely of a list of entries for the month?