OpenPace
Track your training progress toward your race goal
Today I received my first pull request on my app OpenPace 🔀. I have been working on this quietly and now others are starting to notice.
I decided to open source my website for a few reasons.
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I really wanted to build a community. Open source projects are really cool and I have always wanted to be part of one. I never really knew how to get started. I decided that I could just start my own.
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A lot of runners are also software developers. I see my data on strava and other websites but I never feel like I can control what I want to see. I really want to play around with my data and see how my fitness is improving. I want others to feel the same way and have the same power.
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Ideas can come from anywhere. Putting all the ideas, fixes, enhancements in public forum gives me a faster feedback loop. Ideas for OpenPace can come from anywhere and all ideas are welcome.
Don't be shy and put up a PR!
I had just finished the Detroit Marathon and I was exhausted. For my second straight marathon, I had hit the wall in the last 6 miles. I had skipped a few days of training but I wasn't sure which days were most important. I wanted to come up with a tool that would help me track which workouts were important and what pace to run them at.
I dreamed of a platform that would tell me if I was training too hard, or running too fast, or if I was about to get injured. This is where OpenPace started.
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