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Click to view Lee4545's profile Amateur 25 posts since
Aug 27, 2007

Dec 17, 2007 1:35 PM

Bring back the CoolRunning.com Log Now!


I cant beleive coolrunning system admins are cutting and pasting the same bs response to multiple questions.

Please bring back the old coolrunning log and functionality.

I would pay $10 a month for the old coolrunning. But this new Active Trainer log is horrendous.

Click to view PapaBanucci's profile Pro 80 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
1. Dec 17, 2007 1:37 PM in response to: Lee4545

I came up with my own C&P hooey...

I'm really not so happy in the chance I've given it. This migration is really testing my patience.

While I'm sure the Active team has worked extremely, exceedingly and intensively hard to minimize issues, this transition is causing more "discomfort" than it appears it is worth. Moving from the "familiar" to "something new" is one thing, but data loss and feature deficit are yet another. The simple reason that I as a user and runner am less than pleased and less than impressed is because, well, this is a significant step in the wrong direction.

And while you purport, no more lost data, the data conversion program has completely skipped over my custom workout types. Data loss is not something one should expect in any systems conversion. Especially not when advertising the conversion as an upgrade.

I appreciate your apology for the problems experienced in the transition, but with loss of log data and a feature loss, I see little reason to continue with this site. Paying for shoe mileage calculations is pathetic.

More importantly I see no reason to use any site that does not have a log export feature. I want to take my log with me for months and years to come. The ability to export was the #1 feature I considered when I picked Cool Running now two years ago. It was for a reason such as today.

If you want feedback, there are a number of show-stoppers in my opinion to address. These include: no data loss in the data conversion program, ability to support cross training, ability keep the features we had, clean / easy to use UI, and most importantly in my opinion, ability to export the log file at any time.

It will take my about three days to get the hang of RunningAHEAD.com. So far, it seems to have everything I need and appears to be a step ahead of Cool Running. I fear that your hope to promptly resolve my concerns and those of fellow runners may run out before the end of the week. Many of us will likely be finding other sites.

I personally encourage everyone to find a site with export capability. If not here, then somewhere else.

Click to view rokudon's profile Pro 62 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
2. Dec 17, 2007 3:24 PM in response to: PapaBanucci
Sorry