The training log is the journal of your sport outings. Every session (entered by hand or imported from your watch) is filed there, tagged with the dog or dogs that ran, sorted by sport, and rounded out with the weather at the time. Week after week you build the full history of each dog: how many sessions, how many kilometers, how much progress. Included from the Solo plan up (and in Plus).
The goal: never write anything in a paper notebook again. You connect your watch once, and every run comes in on its own with its GPS track, its distance, its duration and its detailed data. All that is left for you to do is say which dog ran.
Key concepts
What to understand before you start
- A session is one run. It has a date, a duration, a distance, a sport and one or more tagged dogs.
- A session's source can be manual (you enter it) or an automatic import (Strava, Garmin, COROS, Apple Health and others).
- The dog tag is what ties the session to the right athlete: it is what feeds THAT dog's history and stats.
- A team is a shortcut: a group of dogs saved once, that you tag in a single move on runs done as a team.
Step by step
Set it up and start logging
- Connect your watch once from the Devices menu: Strava, or Garmin/Polar/COROS through the aggregator. Your activities will then import on their own.
- No watch? Add a session by hand with Start / Record: enter distance, duration and sport.
- Tag every session with the dog (or the team) that actually ran — this is the step that makes the stats trustworthy.
- Pick the sport (canicross, bikejoring, scootering, skijoring, sledding and so on) if the import did not guess it.
- Open the session to see the detail and check that everything lines up (right dog, right distance).
Reading a session detail page
When you open a session you always see the basics: distance, duration, average pace and elevation gain. With the Plus plan you unlock the detailed analysis: heart rate, cadence and altitude curves, a split-by-split breakdown, time spent in each effort zone (Z1 to Z5), advanced GPS analysis (gradient, fade, estimated pulling force) and automatic detection of personal records (PR). Compare puts two runs (or two dogs) side by side.
Distance — Total distance covered on the run, in kilometers.
Duration — Total time of the session (minutes:seconds).
Pace — The time it takes to cover 1 km (min/km). The lower the number, the faster you went.
Average speed — Distance covered per hour on average (km/h) — the inverse of pace.
Elevation gain — Total climbing in meters; over the same distance, a hilly run is harder.
Average HR — Average heart rate across the session, in beats per minute (bpm).
Max HR — The peak heart rate reached during the effort.
Splits — The kilometer-by-kilometer breakdown: the pace of each km. Shows where you sped up and where you faded (here km 6 is the fastest).
HR zones (Z1–Z5) — How your time was spread across heart-rate intensity bands, from Z1 (very easy, recovery) to Z5 (maximal).
Tips
- The Logbook gathers the whole history; Compare puts several dogs or periods side by side (career, 90 days, 30 days).
- Create teams (color-coded) to tag a whole team in one go instead of ticking each dog.
- The better you tag, the more accurate the modules that build on the log (Load & recovery, Nutrition) become.
If something goes wrong
- An activity is missing? Check the connection under Devices and that the activity is visible there; a sync can take a few minutes. You can force a manual sync.
- A duplicate between a manual session and the import? Delete the extra one — the source of truth per dog is still the dog tag.
- A wild speed or pace (say 130 km/h)? That is usually a GPS blip at the start; the advanced analysis cleans those spikes up, and the comparison views ignore sessions that are obviously wrong.
- HR and zone curves empty? Your watch has to record heart rate and have a zone profile configured on the manufacturer's side.
Good to know / abbreviations
- Session
- One recorded sport outing: date, duration, distance, sport and tagged dog or dogs.
- Dog tag
- The act of saying which dog or dogs ran a session. That link is what files the run in the right dog's history.
- Team / rig
- A group of dogs saved once under a name and a color, so you can tag the whole team in a single move. Rig is the mushing word for the vehicle or hitch.
- Sport (discipline)
- The kind of dog sport: canicross (on foot), bikejoring (on a mountain bike), scootering, skijoring (on skis), sledding. Other covers the rest.
- Sync
- The automatic import of your activities from a connected service (Strava, Garmin and others) into the log, with no manual entry.
- HR (heart rate)
- How fast the heart beats. Measured by a watch or chest strap, it tells you the intensity of the effort.
- BPM
- Beats per minute: the unit for heart rate (for example 150 BPM).
- Pace
- The time it takes to cover one kilometer (for example 4 min/km). The lower the number, the faster you went. It is the inverse of speed.
- Speed
- Distance covered per hour (km/h). The session page shows average speed and maximum speed.
- Splits
- The run cut into segments (usually per kilometer), with the time or pace of each. Useful to see where you sped up or slowed down.
- Zones (Z1 to Z5)
- Five intensity bands based on heart rate: Z1 = very easy (recovery), Z2 = endurance, Z3 = tempo, Z4 = threshold, Z5 = maximal. Time spent in each zone shows how the effort was spread out.
- Cadence
- The number of strides (or pedal revolutions) per minute. A steady cadence is often a sign of an efficient stride.
- Elevation gain
- The total climbing on the run, in meters. A hilly session is harder than a flat one of the same distance.
- GPS track / polyline
- The path you covered, drawn on the map from the GPS points recorded by the watch.
- Advanced GPS analysis
- A fine reading of the track (Plus plan): breakdown by gradient, fade at the end of the run, automatic segments and an estimate of pulling force.
- PR (personal record)
- Personal Record: the best performance for a dog (or a team) in a given sport — best average or maximum speed. Detected automatically.
- Suffer score
- A hardship index for the effort, supplied by some watches and by Strava, combining intensity and duration.
- Compare
- Putting two runs (or two dogs, or two periods) side by side to see the gap in distance, speed, elevation gain and speed profile.