Runner's Studio Features

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When you start Runner's Studio, your training "dashboard" will be displayed. This view highlights all relevant training information that Runner's Studio is currently tracking for you.

View this week's runs and planned workouts.
Graphical chart displaying your recent runs. Chart by distance, time, or pace.
Tracks all active shoes and current distance tallied.
Quickly view active goals and current goal status.
Displays your upcoming races and a countdown to race day

System Features

Import GPS data from your Garmin Forerunner. Runner’s Studio allows you to import data stored in Garmin Training Center. View GPS runs using Google Earth.
Import your existing training and race data. Customizable interface allows you to import a wide variety of text delimited files.
All data is stored in XML format - a universally accepted text format.
Backup and restore options. Set Runner's Studio to automatically remind you to backup your data every number of days you configure.
Password protect Runner's Studio to prevent unwanted access.
All software licenses receive free product upgrades.... New features are continually being added!
Software works with your local date and numeric formatting configurations (set through Control Panel via Regional and Language Options)
Offers many configurable options to tailor software to you.

Run Log

Easy to use running log and entry form for entering your running workouts. Enter only the information that matters to you. You can enter in a single time and distance ran in your workout, or enter in each split. Further, as you enter in your workout, the summary Distance, Run Time, Average Pace, Average Speed, and Calories Burned are prominently displayed. For each run, you can enter:

Course / Route
Date and time of run
Type of run (Easy Run, Fartlek Workout, Group Run, Hill Workout, Interval Training, Long Run, Speed Workout, Stair Stepper, Tempo Run, Track Workout, Treadmill, Walk, Other)
Temperature
Distance (miles or kilometers)
Run Time
Individual split / lap entries
Shoes
Body Weight
Running Heart Rate
Maximum Heart Rate
Resting Heart Rate
Rich Journal Entry
Elevation Chart (for imported GPS runs)

Graphs / Charts

Runner's Studio has an easy-to-use graphical charting utility to help you visualize your workout progress. This tool has many features that allow you to customize your chart view. You can chart all runs for a single running route or for all your training courses. Customize your chart to graph distance, total time ran, or average pace. Also displayed are detailed run statistics for current course and timeframe selected. These stats include Total Runs, Total Distance, Total Time, Average Distance, Average Pace, Average Speed, Best Pace, Worse Pace, and Longest Run.) Other charting features include

Zooming capability
Scrolling graph (after you zoom in)
Chart individual runs over time
Total runs by month or year and chart accordingly
Click on individual points on graph and see specific run information
Toggle on and off chart markers and labels

Track Running Shoes

It's important to track distance ran on your running shoes. As running shoes wear out, they can become uncomfortable and possibly lead to injury. Runner's Studio allows you to setup and track distance ran on your running shoes. For each shoe, capture your first impressions of the shoe (after all, 3 months later you might forget that a pair of shoes took a while to break in!), make general comments, and specify a maximum distance to run on shoes. Finally, rate yours shoe from 1 to 5 stars!

Planning Workouts

Runner's Studio has a unique feature which allows you to not only record your training runs, but it helps you plan for workouts in the future. As you become more serious about your running, planning your workouts ahead of time is crucial in maximizing your performance. Runner's Studio allows you to create ad-hoc workouts; Runner's Studio allows you to create common workouts and remember them for quick entry later. After you setup Runner's Studio with your commonly ran workouts, you can setup a weekly workout in just seconds!

Calendar View

A customizable monthly calendar view allows you view your running workouts over a month. Display actual workouts, planned workouts, race results, and upcoming races on your calendar. Setup your calendar view so you can compare your planned workouts with actual results!

Goal Tracking

Runner's Studio realizes that there is more to running than data entry. Whether you are a weekend jogger or seriously training for an upcoming race, setting running goals not only helps you focus on a target but encourages you in your training. Choose between 6 types of goals, and Runner's Studio will do the rest. It will automatically track your goal progress. Choose between the following goals:

Run More Often (Example: Run 5 times in 2 weeks)
Run Faster (Example: Run 5 times at a pace of 8:30 in 2 weeks)
Run Longer (Example: Run 7 times over 45:00 in 2 weeks)
Run a Distance (Example: Run 100 miles in 4 weeks)
Lose Weight (Example: Lose 10 pounds)
Personal Goal (Free from goal area to allow you to create any personal goal you may have!)

Another distinctive feature of Runner's Studio is how it tracks your goals. Just imagine that you create a goal to run 25 miles in one week. For whatever reason, you do not obtain your goal the first week but were only 1 mile short of your goal. Runner's Studio will continue to track your goal until your goal is met. You do not have to meet your goal the first week. In other words, your goal is treated as "Run 25 miles in one weeks' period" and not as "Run 25 miles in a week starting from today." The latter approach is not only a defeating and discouraging approach to goal setting, but it probably does not align with what you intended. Remember, run goals are more meaningful and encouraging when they are not so easily obtainable.

Mega Goals

Runner's Studio introduces a new goal tracking option - mega goals! With a mega goal, you can select a global route and simulate a run through one of 4 regions (United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia). Along each virtual route, you pass through various cities. You are presented the distance to upcoming cities - a mini goal with the mega goal!

So what is the purpose of a mega goal? It helps you put your total run distance into perspective. So you have run 500 miles... what does that mean? With a mega goal, you can see how far on a map that is exactly. It creates encouragement and is fun to use to put your run distance into perspective. Routes you can choose to run are:

Los Angeles, California to Charleston, South Carolina
San Francisco, California to Boston, Massachusetts
Vancouver, British Columbia to Halifax, Nova Scotia
Perth, Western Australia to Sydney, New South Whales
Dublin, Ireland to Kiev, Ukraine
Lisbon, Portugal to Vienna, Austria

Plan Upcoming Races

Tell Runner's Studio about an upcoming race and your goal time, and the software will show you the number of days to the race as well as your target average pace needed to meet your goal racing time.

Race Results and Personal Bests

Throw away that old spread sheet you have and enter your races into Runner's Studio. Runner Studio will sift through all your races and show you your personal best for each type of race run. Easily view if you met your race goal or not.

Rich Journaling Feature

Journal your daily runs and races with the rich journaling features provided. Allows you to set font and font size of journal entries as well as add bold, italics and underline where necessary. Hyperlinks are instantly recognized and can be clicked on to go to the web site. A stamp feature allows you to "sign" your journal entry with the click of a button. Quick search functionality allows you to easily search through all your journal entries for selected keywords. Easy to use search results display allows you to quickly search and view journal entries containing search results.

Runner's Studio also comes with a full set of Journal Ideas. Just select any idea, and the idea will be added to your journal entry as a Journal Heading. Further, you can customize this list of Journal Ideas to suit your own writing style.

Tools and Calculators

Runner's Studio comes with many tools and calculators to help you plan and enter data. Tools such as a Distance Conversion tool, Distance Estimator, Pace Calculator, Time Calculator, and Race Pace Planner are included.

So Much More!

There are so many features embedded in Runner's Studio, the only way to experience them all is to try it for yourself. Why wait? Download the free trial today and see how Runner's Studio can work for you.