Your friends are out there doing some amazing runs. Sometimes, what’s really amazing is that they’re finally getting back in the groove after life took them away from it for a while. Other times, the amazing thing is that they’ve been steadily working towards their goals for months without fail. Or it could be that… Read more »
Author: chris
Trailing 90 day training
The Analyze Run View is one of the most powerful features of Smashrun Pro, and it’s now available directly from the By Run page. The great thing about this feature is how quickly you can see a wealth of information about your recent training. The view is composed of two parts. The top half shows… Read more »
Polar history importer
The Polar historical data importer is up and running. If you need to import historical data directly from Polar you can do that easily by creating the connection on the Settings Sync page. Please remember to set a minimum import date as appropriate to prevent the possibility of duplicate data. If you’re already using the… Read more »
A few updates
Polar Integration The Polar historical data importer broke last month. We need to make some sizable changes on our side to remedy the issue and it’s taking longer than anticipated. That said, if you only need to import new runs you can still connect to Polar (autosync) from your Settings Sync Page. This connection will… Read more »
The Winter Solstice Badge
It’s that time of year. The Winter Solstice is coming up soon, and if you time your runs correctly there’s a badge in it for you. To earn “The Shortest Day” you’ll need to complete two runs on the day of the solstice. The first needs to start before sunrise and finish after and the… Read more »
Making room for more data
Smashrun now displays more than 10 years of data. We had to make a few changes under the hood to make this possible. But one of the most visible was the need for more pixels to display all of that data. So, Smashrun needed to get a wee bit wider. All these new pixels allowed… Read more »
A new Garmin API
Smashrun moved to a new Garmin API. If you’re having trouble syncing here’s what you need to do: Go to the Settings -> Sync page Under Garmin (auto-sync) if you you see a “Connect” button click it. This will open a popup. If it doesn’t it might be blocked by your browser. (Look for an… Read more »
Garmin API delays
The data we’re receiving from Garmin’s API is currently experiencing delays of between 30mins to 12 hours. If you’re connected to Garmin you’ll likely see summary data only, while we wait for Garmin to send the detailed information. I know this is frustrating, and I’m sorry for the inconvenience. We’ve reached out to Garmin and… Read more »
Changes to Garmin Import
We’re moving to the updated Garmin API. If you currently import from Garmin take a second right now and go to your Settings Sync Page and connect your account to the new Garmin API. This new Garmin API is replacing our existing API connection starting today, so please make sure you connect. Once you’re connected… Read more »
Import changes
Tonight we released a major rewrite of our import architecture in preparation for migrating to the Garmin Health API. Smashrun has integrations for a lot of different sources, and then there’s our API, and FIT/TCX/GPX file import, and of course import via email. And it’s all inextricably intertwined. We’ve done a lot of testing over… Read more »