Activebody Blog

Time for Version 2?

2007-04-02T13:46:00.000-05:00

I'm starting to think it's time for version 2 of this website. Will be drafting a list of some of the things I want, but if you have ideas, or things that you would like to see, post them in the comments area.

Cheers,
Clint

Welcome FredCast listeners!

2006-06-01T08:09:00.000-05:00

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the FredCast podcast about cycling is a great once a week show about cycling. I sent a quick email to the author and he did a great mention of ActiveBody.org in show number 19.

So for all you new folks joining the site from the podcast, welcome! We just started a new challenge today so get your miles/km in!

Cheers,
Clint

P.S. - If you know of other podcast's that would enjoy hearing about activebody.org please feel free to send them my way.

Spring Challenge Results

2006-06-01T07:36:00.000-05:00

Looks like another 3 months have passed and we have the results of the Spring Challenge. Great job to all that worked hard to get the numbers in, and if you didn't make your goal, a new challenge starts today so get out there and put in the miles/km!

The top three results for men and women in all activities are:

2006 Spring Cycling Challenge

Men Cycling
#	Name	Miles	Time (H:S)	Elevation (Feet)
1	Gregory Pedano (MO, US)	2,787.0	136:33	0.0
2	Jim Taylor (SC, US)	2,542.9	136:38	0.0
3	Phil S - Mosquito Bikes London (United Kingdom)	2,437.6	0:00	0.0

Women Cycling
#	Name	Miles	Time (H:S)	Elevation (Feet)
1	Donna Bush (OH, US)	1,943.2	127:43	0.0
2	Ann Noriel (CA, US)	755.9	59:42	3,500.0
3	Julie Lundrigan (Preston, United Kingdom)	653.7	72:45	0.0

2006 Spring Running Challenge

Men Running
#	Name	Miles	Time (H:S)
1	A Rodriguez (AZ, US)	610.3	79:16
2	Keith Harrison (MI, US)	601.2	83:33
3	Michael Little (OH, US)	523.5	64:55

Women Running
#	Name	Miles	Time (H:S)
1	andrea hill (AZ, US)	311.9	42:37
2	Christina Morales (AZ, US)	308.4	43:30
3	gaylynn Kelly (CA, US)	217.2	33:34

2006 Spring Swimming Challenge

Men Swimming
#	Name	Miles	Time (H:S)	Laps
1	Ryan Griessmeyer (WI, US)	51.4	11:55	1206.0
2	Andrea Paradowski (WI, US)	48.3	37:52	3461.0
3	Eric T Johnson (UT, US)	39.0	7:40	438.0

Women Swimming
#	Name	Miles	Time (H:S)	Laps
1	Michele Howard (MI, US)	69.5	14:54	1492.0
2	sm schmitz (IN, US)	57.0	23:37	2008.0
3	Clare Holland (Singapore)	10.6	5:10	186.0

2006 Spring Walking Challenge

Men Walking
#	Name	Miles	Time (H:S)
1	Tim Costello (ND, US)	191.1	43:40
2	Larry Johnson (WI, US)	191.0	47:17
3	Lyle Sieving (MI, US)	129.5	30:39

Women Walking
#	Name	Miles	Time (H:S)
1	Jennifer Boger (MA, US)	298.2	0:00
2	Eileen Centonze (CA, US)	213.0	53:15
3	Gabby Spanic (CA, US)	118.8	36:31

2006 Spring Gym Challenge

Men Gym (Weight Training)
#	Name	Weight	Reps
1	Henry Levy (Toronto, Canada)	193874	1899
2	Ivan Liechty (SC, US)	181575	2680
3	Erik Gordon (Leduc, Canada)	103100	1930

Men Gym (Timed Training)
#	Name	Time (H:M)
1	Frank (Gustav) (WI, US)	48:45
2	Ivan Liechty (SC, US)	14:48
3	Owen Simpson (NC, US)	9:16

Women Gym (Weight Training)
#	Name	Weight	Reps
1	Rachel Gunyan (UT, US)	99990	2391
2	Debra Lambourn (OR, US)	52020	4230
3	Clare Holland (Singapore)	14280	804

Women Gym (Timed Training)
#	Name	Time (H:M)
1	Dee Roach (WA, US)	14:00
2	Anne Bentley (IN, US)	9:11
3	Chesty LaRoux (AZ, US)	8:46

Good luck to all of you in the current 2006 Summer Challenge!

Cycling podcast

2006-05-10T15:13:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone,

Hope the spring is treating everyone well and you are getting outdoors to get active! Life here in Madison is starting to warm up and get green and I'm enjoying the commute miles on the bike!

I came across a great podcast show this past weekend that I many of you might like to check out. It's called The FredCast and the author does a great job of putting together a great show. Go have a listen for yourself... it's free!

If you are not sure what a "podcast" is, check out the wiki page on podcasting.

Cheers all,
Clint

Fixed delete bug

2006-01-08T20:18:00.000-06:00

There was a bug when you tried to delete a workout from your account. This item is now fixed.

Winter Donation Drive Complete!

2006-01-04T04:41:00.000-06:00

Thanks everyone for all the donations over the last week. It's the one part of the job of working on the site that I hate the most (asking for money).

As in the summer drive, many users came forward with great donations to the site. I list them on the donation page, but I also want to thank them once again here by listing them again. Without your support the site would be much harder to host and maintain expenses. Thank You!

Gold (donate $30 or more)

Lorenz
Unknown Username

Silver (donate between $15 and $30)

fyrcanine
squeegy200
Gary T
patkelley
Steveholloway
slibby_2001
brenon
randyr
tandmteam
RunMaster

Bronze (donate less then $15)

angelaAZ
littlerun
Bikerdude
CarlJStoneham
KeithA
Phil S Mosquito Bikes - London
garagedog
dracoedj
Dirt32

Users are welcome to continue to make donations to the site, but as of this morning we have met the goal of $300. Have a great day and get out there and work out!
Clint

Happy New Year!

2006-01-02T12:15:00.000-06:00

Hey Everyone,

Wanted to wish you all a Happy 2006 today and let you know a what might be instore for 2006.

2005 was a great year for Activebody! Apart from a little hiccup mid summer when the weather feature caused massive memory issues on the server, we were pretty stable and up and ready for users to enter data 24/7. From previous years, this is an improvement. The hosting company we are using now is MUCH better then previous years so lets all thank InMotion Hosting for the great services!

We also had a great year with an increase in users and miles/km tracked. In 2005 we passed over the 2000 user mark and almost hit the 3000 mark by 70 users! We also increased our miles from around 419,000 to just over 621,000 miles! We have users in 52 different countries, and every state of the US! The users also raised over $400 to host the site which is a HUGE help! WOW!

I'm hoping that 2006 will be even better! Here are some of my goals for Activebody in 2006:

Provide a new query tool that will allow users the ability to build and save custom views of their data with criteria and other options. The results will display in a tabular rows and columns and allow users to export in a common Excel file format. I'm currently working on this tool right now and hope to have it in a beta version to users very soon.
Speed improvements to common, heavily used pages.
A number of new user based tools including viewable profiles, "friends list", and other tools to help build a stronger sense of community, social network, and of course motivation to get out there and workout!
Possible site look and feel redesign. There are a number of things I would like to improve on with how the site looks and works. We are still using version 1 of the site, so I would love to get version 2.0 sometime in 2006.
Try and increase site exposure and user base over 2006 to various publications and other online media.

I think that should be just about it. Until the next post, have a great workout,
Clint

Winter Donation Drive

2005-12-29T08:37:00.000-06:00

Hello everyone,

It's time again to try and raise a little money to help keep the site going. We tried this last summer and it was a big hit so I thought I would give the winter folks a chance to help out as well. I'm not a big fan of asking for donations but many of you feel like it is something you would like to do. In hopes of keeping it simple I tried the "Donation Drive" where we have a set goal amount established and once hit, I back off asking. This seemed to be a nice blend of success without having me in your face asking for donations all the time.

So what are the numbers?

This donation drive goal is $300. Not a great deal, but it really helps over the next six months. That money goes to pay the hosting fees, domain fees, and other small things that help keep the site up and running. I'm also paying at least 50% of the hosting fees myself as I use it for other projects as well. Again, I don't ask for much, but I am asking for your help.

To help promote the idea, there is an area on the site that gives credit where credit is due, here you will see three groups of people that donate to the site; Gold Metal Users, Silver Metal Users, and Bronze Metal Users.

Gold Metal Users donate $30 or more

Silver Metal Users donate between $15 and $30

Bronze Metal Users donate less then $15

To make a donation you can use the PayPal button at the bottom of this page, or wherever you see a Make a Donation button on the site. You can also email admin@activebody.org to request a street mailing address to send a check.

Please note: When you donate, please indicate your username so that I can list your username on the donated users page.

Forum was hacked, and updates

2005-12-28T15:01:00.000-06:00

Hey everyone,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to the site after the forums were hacked. It was the holiday and I wanted to spend time with my family and not sucked to a computer.

The bad news is the forms are gone for good. The good news is the site now has an official "Blog" where I'll be posting info on updates to the site and general information to users. Much the same way we saw the forums being used in the past. If you would like to make a suggestion to the site you can do that via email to admin@activebody.org.

This blog will also give you the ability to subscribe to a RSS feed to get updates via your favorite RSS Reader. If you don't know about RSS, it might be a good time to learn as it's a great way to keep updated. You should see a link on the left with the RSS address (http://www.activebody.org/blog/atom.xml). Just use that and you should be set to go.

You also have the ability to post comments to any post I make on the blog. You should be able to see a link at the bottom of every post. I've set it up such that anyone can make an anonymous comment but would like it if you could at least leave your name or email address.

Enough for now... Feel free to make a comment, or send me an email (admin@activebody.org) as I'd love to hear from you!

Cheers,
Clint