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The Digital Athletic Log

Subsections

• 3.1 The Required and Strongly Recommended Information
• 3.2 Your Default Settings
• 3.3 Optional Information: Estimate of Training Zones
• 3.4 Optional Information: Your Weather Forecast

3 Your Profile

Your profile is edited by selecting the ``Edit your: profile'' link.

To make any changes to your profile you must enter your current password at the bottom of the form.

Figure 1: The edit profile form.

3.1 The Required and Strongly Recommended Information

Very little information is required to make your account functional. The minimum required information is your username and a password.

It is strongly recommended (but not required) that you also enter the following information:

An email address:

This is used to allow you to automatically retrieve your password in case you forget it. If no email address is entered, the only way to recover you password is to contact the site administrator.

Your time zone:

This allows the athletic log to calculate the default date and time for your entries. If the date and time fields are left blank the Athletic Log will use the current date and time in your time zone.

Your name:

While not required, it is nice to have the welcome page greet you correctly.

3.2 Your Default Settings

If you have multiple sports, routes or keywords you may specify which should be used as the initial menu option throughout the log.

You may specify your default temperature units.

The ``Schedule'' keyword is an optional feature used with goal processing. See the Section 8 for more information. If you are not using the goal feature, you do not need to set a ``Schedule'' keyword.

The ``Blog/Journal'' Keyword is an option feature for designating a keyword to make non-sport specific entries which are displayed with your sport entries. See Section 6 for more informaiton about the the ``blog view''.

You may share your log with others, allowing them to view your recent entries and goals. See Section 12.6 for more information.

3.3 Optional Information: Estimate of Training Zones

This section of your profile calculates the heart rate ranges for your training zones. For more information on the purpose of the training zones see Reference [3, pp 26-30]. Training zones can calculated several ways.

Calculated from Maximum and Resting Heart Rate:

Here the training zones are calculated using the Karvonen method. This method calculates the training zones from your maximum heart rate and your resting heart rate. Your maximum heart rate can be entered directly (if you have measured it) or it can be estimated from your age. In both cases you must enter your resting heart rate. See Appendix A and Reference [3, pp 39-42] for the details of how the zones are calculated.

Entered Directly:

Here the heart rate limits for each zone are entered directly. This is used if you determined your training zones by a VO2 max test or exercise stress test.

3.4 Optional Information: Your Weather Forecast

The city and state fields are used to display your current weather forecast. The zip code field is used to look up your weather if the city and state don't produce a weather link. Users outside the United States use a weather station ID number entered in the zip code field (See Section 12.4 for details).

The weather information is from the weather underground. See Section 12.4 or email me if you are having getting the weather forecast to display properly.

Figure 2: A sample weather display.