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2008-08-13 11:55 AM

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Subject: RSS Feed - workouts?
just wondering if there was a way to include the workouts on the RSS feed?  i have a few friends that subscribe via RSS b/c they aren't members here and it would be nice if the workouts showed up so they could see what i'm doing. 


2008-08-14 10:40 PM
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I too am very interested in this! I don't use the blog here as I have a dedicated blog elsewhere. It would be really nice to have a feed of my workout, or nutritional data.
2008-08-15 9:49 AM
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The workouts should be included in the RSS feed after the comments.  I just verified with mine and yours. 

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/blog-rss.asp?mid=78462

Unless the workouts should be first so they don't get lost in the comments?

Let me know what you see.

...nice to see you turgy!...

2008-08-15 12:00 PM
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Ron - 2008-08-15 10:49 AM

The workouts should be included in the RSS feed after the comments. I just verified with mine and yours.

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/blog-rss.asp?mid=78462

Unless the workouts should be first so they don't get lost in the comments?

Let me know what you see.

...nice to see you turgy!...

 

Okay see them.  When I added it to my google reader it comes up like this:

 
 it' 10 o'clock and i have managed to: 1. get my run in 2. stay within my calorie target range according to spark 3. not lose my mind i think i'd call today a good one.    500 cal burned what happens when you take a down week? that first run back hurts a little. ouch. but i hit my target pace for today's run, under 15 minute miles. my goal for the week is to do all runs around this pace. Run: 29m 14s 2.00 miles 14.62 miles/hr

i'd suggest maybe move the workouts first or have a break so the first one doesn't come out directly after the comments.   then again, not sure if other readers do this one too...

2008-08-15 3:25 PM
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Ron - 2008-08-15 9:49 AM

The workouts should be included in the RSS feed after the comments. I just verified with mine and yours.

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/blog-rss.asp?mid=78462

Unless the workouts should be first so they don't get lost in the comments?

Let me know what you see.

...nice to see you turgy!...



its great to be back Ron! I've been gone for a while, but hopefully I'm back for good this time.

I checked the feed more thoroughly and saw the workout data appended to the blog post. I'm not sure what would be the best way to display the workout data. I'm almost inclined to suggest some XML scheme to tag/delimit the different types of data (workout, nutrition, blog, etc). perhaps a separate feed for blog and workout? i don't like the sound of that.

The most useful thing for RSS feeds is to make the data parsable. I would really like the ability to easily extract training log data without resorting to funky regular expressions. i might be asking too much though. I mean, it is pretty simple to take the value of the string between "Bike:" and "miles" and extract the distance for that days ride.

Any thoughts on it?
2008-08-15 8:56 PM
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I'll take a look at this, see what can be done. An xml scheme has promise. At the very least, some reformatting couldn't hurt.

2008-08-18 9:09 AM
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I've also noticed that the nutrition data doesn't get picked up by the rss feed. It would be cool to have this.

Obviously not everyone here wants to broadcast every detail of their fitness log to the rest of the world. It would be REALLY nice if there some simple options in the "control panel" to choose which aspects of the log show up in the feed.

An example is below, with brackets representing checkboxes:

[ ] blog
[x] workout data
[ ] nutrition data
[x] race entry

That is just an example. Here the feed would include workout log data and any race entries on that day. What do you think about that?
2008-08-18 12:09 PM
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Here's another vote for this excellent idea!
2008-08-19 7:22 AM
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While you're at it, can you replace newlines with br tags? I have my training log rss fed into my other blog, and the line breaks I have put into my writing do not get converted to breaks, so the text is all smushed into one paragraph.
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