they better fix this or i'm going to lose my mind

What other sites do any of you recommend for tracking your runs? Made the mistake of not dowloading my data prior to the Active takeover. Has anyone found that option anywhere?

From where you get into Active Trainer (some kind of "community" and advertising screen), hunt around for "running" on the left column. Go there and hunt around for "training plans" and go there. Eventually you'll get to a place where you are offered the chance to choose a "basic" or for pay log. Do this and THEN youget to the promised "merge" screen.

After merge (at least to the free version), some of your data is there in a pretty useless fashion as it contains no week or month totals. But it is there.

Personally, I think I'll go back to Excel. At least if I screw it up, it will be my screw up, not some company that wants me to buy stuff I don't need. Nice simple sport, running.

OMATTY

I'm struggling very hard not to be a whiner. I never paid for the
coolrunning running log, so I don't have that much right to complain,
but. . . .

How on earth could something so good turn so bad? and Is there any chance whatsoever that we'll ever have it as good?

After a little bit of tinkering around, here are the main problems I have, as a basic user:

1) Weekly totals are not readily evident

• one of the MAIN REASONS one keeps a log is to track mileage. Why
  isn't the mileage easily viewable? Fine, I go into <Reports> -
  <Training Stats> - (information that should be available in the
  main calendar!) and even there I can't see my total mileage for the
  WEEK or YEAR, only DAY and MONTH, and even then, I'm limited by a
  certain time frame (only one year worth of monthly totals). So many
  other bells and whistles, but not the very simplest feature that one
  expects in a training log - How many miles did I run this week? this
  year?

• all the information about PRs has vanished, or if not, it certainly
  isn't as intuitively available. Where did it go? If it is available,
  why is it so hard to find?

• Stupid, stupid, stupid me - I didn't download my data before the
  switch. Is there anyway whatsoever to get all my old data back, in an
  exported file? Moreover, is there anyway to get my data NOW in an
  exported file? Yet another UPGRADE that actually gives us less service.

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If any of you know of a persistant link to your running log (as in, you have shared your running log and know of the link to it) you can still kind of get your old data back. Just go to your log (for example mine is: http://www.coolrunning.com/cgi-bin/log/display.cgi?u=PurpleHaze;s=russians) and then you can go to Tools > Download your running log. For some reason it downloads as a CGI file rather than an Excel file. Open the CGI file in a web browser and then copy and paste all the text into a Word document on your computer. This still has its issues but pretty much anything is better than Active Trainer!

Phew. I'm so glad I shared mine out just this past October and still had the old e-mail around referencing it.