Running Smile News

New Feature! Elevation profile of your route is available!!

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:38:00 +0000

Hi,
Long waited feature has come at last, the elevation profile of the route.
Please take a look at it with the brand new route for the Vancouver marathon 2012 by clicking the link below. Clicking 'Show the elevation profile' button will show you the profile.
http://www.runningsmile.com/designRoute.php?viewRoute=8971922

You can view the profile of your own route from the VIEW mode (not editing mode) by selecting the route from the 'Route Library' page, click the 'VIEW' button or the name of the route, then 'Show the elevation profile' button will appear at the left bottom of the map for you to click.

There are limitation of requests at Google server.
It returns error if your routes point exceed about 400 or total daily number from the site exceed 25000.
Reducing the points less than 400 by editing the route will fix this problem.
This limitation would be changed in the future by Google.

Google terrain data doesn't have the height for the bridges. They will appear as sea/river level instead of the height of the bridge where you go up and down. Sorry.

I hope you enjoy this new feature!!

New Feature: Google street view is added!

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:36:00 +0000

Hi, long time no update for the site, but don't worry, we keep working on it.
It's been a while since Google map got updated to version 3, we've been willing to update the site soon and at last we could have time to do it.
Now it is with Google street view available, you will see the mileage marker in the street view too.

Also, we made the window resizable for easier editing.
Please find the grip icon at the bottom right corner of the map, and drag to expand the map.

We hope it would be little more handy.

I am now planning that the new feature would be the elevation profile of the route.

Thank you!

Debugging update

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:45:00 +0000

CSV output function on 30days glance page has been fixed.
This is the alternative way of archiving your records.
Please check for detail of this function at:
http://www.runningsmile.com/help.php?pageH=51

New function: Time Calculator

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:31:00 +0000

We added a new function on the Running Log page, 'Time Calculator'.
This tiny gadget simply calculates time. Such a simple one indeed, but it's quite handy when you calculates the total running time from the lap times.
Input the time and click the + or - button, then you will see the total time instantly.

Debugging update

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:27:00 +0000

Appearance of the weight line chart, and moving range of the scroll bar of bar graph page have been fixed.

I wanted to do this fix since way long time ago, I just could not have the time for it, but today, I finally did!

Fix update: Calendar headers

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:44:00 +0000

Thank to Simon's notification, the calendar header display was fixed.
Lower case of "s" was not embedded. It was like "Tueday", "Wedneday" lol!

Debug update

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:48:00 +0000

Thanks to Kal's notification, The calorie calculation conversion in Jog Calculator was fixed.

New features: Editing and saving jogging routes are much easier!!

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:04:00 +0000

We added new features which is, I believe, very useful for all users of Running Smile!

New feature 1:
You can grab and drag the anchor points in Design Route page, and you can even add and delete anchor points too!

Select Edit anchors mode, find a tiny red square dot appears when you roll over the corner (joint part of 2 lines). Grab it and drag it. The distance display will be updated as you move.
Distance markers will be updated when you finish dragging the anchor.

You can also add or delete anchor points. With Edit anchors mode, you can add an anchor by clicking the line, and delete an anchor by clicking the anchor. You can not delete the start point and the goal point. Use UNDO button to delete them.
Put it back to Draw route mode when you keep drawing new lines.

New feature 2:
In edit mode of Design Route page, find 'SAVE AS' button under 'UPDATE' button.
'UPDATE' button works as it was, updating the editing route data in the database, new 'SAVE AS' button save the edited route data as new route data. You can save the routes with same names but maybe changing route name is better.

These new features are requested by a very good user in Germany.
Thank you!
I hope this would help all users of Running Smile enjoy running and stay healthy!

Debugging update

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:29:00 +0000

4 more bugs have been fixed.
3 of them are reported by a user in Germany. Thank you very much for your corporation!

Fixed bugs are following:
1. Running Log page did not display when user have no shoes record.
2. The number of days left to next race appeared improperly at certain period of time.
3. In designing route, the line disappeared when you click on it with custom icon mode (like 'water').
4. Total running distance in Jog Tour page included distance of records in the future (like next race schedule).

News updates are now easier to see.

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:52:00 +0000

News updates displays 5 latest news of Running Smile.
Though the News pages have been available since site opening, now it's a bit easier to see what up at Running Smile.

The Great Africa Tour: The wildest and toughest jogging route in the world!

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:26:00 +0000

Challenge new world wildest and toughest jogging route ever at Running Smile.
It's more than 15000km!!
Thanks to the request from a user in South Africa, we made the greatest jogging route ever!!
Start from Cape Town via Johannesburg (South Africa), Harare (Zimbabwe), Dodoma (Tanzania), Nairobi (Kenya), Adis Abeba (Ethiopia), Khartoum (Sudan), Cairo (Egypt), Oran (Algeria) and the finish line is in Casablanca (Morocco).

You virtually go through African savanna, life threatening deserts!!
Jog to live!!
In Casablanca, you sing:
You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A jog is just a jog
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by....

A bug fixed

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:32:00 +0000

A bug which caused route update function error has been fixed.

3 more bugs fixed

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:06:00 +0000

2 drawing bugs and a search bug have been fixed.

New feature! Jog Tours!!

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:33:00 +0000

We have just added a new feature of the site!
It's Jog Tours!!

This will be one of most interesting feature of the site.
This shows you how great workout you have done by virtually letting you travel all around the world.

It show you where you are running on the tour route calculating total distance of your workout.

Well since it's still beta status, there is only one tour, which is Trans Canada - Halifax to Vancouver, but I will soon add more tours.
Your request will be appreciated!

Bug fix update

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:47:00 +0000

1. Shoes info in search result has been fixed.
2. Flash tag has been fixed. Extra click to activate logstats (Flash) on Vista is no longer required.

All the known bugs are fixed

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:45:00 +0000

We fixed all the known bugs which appeared due to server upgrade.

It's a cool sunday afternoon here in Vancouver.
Enjoy running / jogging !

Some bugs due to PHP upgrade.

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:57:00 +0000

When the server was upgraded, php version was slso upgraded to 5. And now I found some bugs apearing at Route Libray and Injury calender.

Thanks for being patient, I will fix this asap!

The server is being upgraded!!

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:42:00 +0000

Eventually Running Smile server will be running on VPS server in a day or two.
That is a Virtual Dedicated Server. It's been on a shared server till now, but from now on, its performance will be way more stable!
I have got some comments about the performance of the server, but this will fix it!

Due to transfering the data to new server, there will be some propagation time difference for your provider's server to pick up the data from our new server via updated domain name server.

All the latest data will be moved but there is a tiny chance to miss your latest jog record input because of that propagetion time.
If this happens, would you please input that record again....

Thanks for your patience.

Update: Some more bugs have been fixed

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:44:00 +0000

Due to the fix of yesterday, The distance and duration display was incorrect in the log stats page. Now it's been fixed.

RSS feed had a bug. The display of xml file made an error message when you include "&" character in the memo. This has been fixed too.

Stats Log is updated.

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:35:00 +0000

The variable loading issue, and some other minor bugs were fixed today.
Now, the stas log pages are much more stable!
Stats Log engine is now version 1.9.

Help pages are up!

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:43:00 +0000

Help pages of the site is now available!
Yes, we are very close to the official opening of the site now.

New feature: Weight history line graph

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:22:00 +0000

New feature has been added!
Now you can see your weight gain/loss history in line graph!
There are 5 spans: 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years.
Yeh, it would help your diet for sure!

You can also see day's detail by roll over the dots on the line, and jump to the log page of that date of the dot by click.

New feature is up! Bar Graphs!!

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:21:00 +0000

Now, RunningSmile.com has just added a new feature, the bar graphs.
It will show you monthly distance, monthly duration, yearly distance and yearly duration of your run.
With this feature you can see how much you run on average clearly.
I hope this will be an addition to the motivation for your run!!

New feature: Powerful log search!

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:33:00 +0000

A good news from Running Smile!
We have just added new powerful log searching feature!
Now you can screen and sort your run records/log into very detail, not only your run data, but also weather, temperture data too.
Please try this usuful search at www.runningsmile.com.
This feature is available at 'Log Stats', click 'Log Search' Button.

Greetings from Running Smile

noreply@blogger.com (Masaru Horie) — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:48:00 +0000

Hi, My name is Masaru Horie, the producer of Running Smile, also a daily jogger/runner since 2005 summer.
I have run 3 full marathons so far, 2 in Vancouver and 1 in Victoria, I will run one in Okanagan this fall.

Well, the reason of this site is:,
When I was making running record of my run, I was not very lucky to find a good web site to do it.
So I decided to make one which is useful for jogger/runners to keep the record easy and fun to watch.

This site is 90% completed so far, still I need to add powerful search function, and help pages, but most part of the site are already working fine to use.

I hope this site would help you keep your motivation of running/jogging high!

I am planning to release this site officially in July or August.
Your feedback and request to the site is always very welcome.
Please send it from our 'Contact us' page.

I keep updated this blog when something new is up on the site.

Have a good run!