June 4, 2009
Yesterday was National Running Day and a lot of you celebrated by getting a head start on a new dailymile feature: Challenges!
Curious who among your friends can run the fastest 5K? Who on dailymile can log 100 cycling miles the quickest this month? Think you can log more miles this month than I can? 
Start a challenge and let’s find out!
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve surpassed 1,000,000 miles logged! Think you can guess when we’ll hit 2,000,000 miles? Leave a comment and we’ll send a gift to the person who was closest.
As always, we love hearing from you. Send us your feedback or questions.
May 26, 2009
The New York Times is running a special section titled “Marathon Tech Review.” They are reviewing tech products every Friday up to the start of the New York Marathon. We’d love to be one of the products they review. Here’s a snippet from their first post:
“Each Friday, I will put to the test e-tools, gadgets and applications that aim to track runners’ progress and help train for the big run. I hope you’ll e-mail me your own tips, tools or other e-wizardry at nytmarathon@gmail.com.” – http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/marathon-tech-review-nike-ipod/
If you have a few minutes, drop them an email them and let them know how dailymile has been helpful in your training. Thanks so much!
nytmarathon@gmail.com
May 18, 2009
We’ve updated the people page to make it easier to find and discover other athletes like you. You can now view athletes who are competing in similar races, best motivators, funniest, and athletes logging the most miles. Friend and follow the training of other athletes doing cool stuff. Also, we’ve added the ability to view previous feed items with a “show more” button on your dashboard. We’re fastly approaching 1 million miles logged on dailymile!!! Keep up the hard work 
April 22, 2009
Plot your miles, time, pace, and calories. Overlay your friends and compare your training with theirs. Find interesting trends in your training data and train better.
Did you know this year, as a community, we’ve run over 9 times around the world and worn through over 800 pairs of shoes? You can now track several of these stats on the new You vs Friends and Everyone tabs.
There’s a new social leaderboard as well. Find out who is the most inspirational, humorous, the biggest socialite, and who has the best karma. Other features include: a new dashboard design, calorie tracking, and the ability to export your training data.
We hope this new update allows you to better analyze your training and continues to make logging your miles fun and easy. Enjoy the new features, and let us know if you have any suggestions!
March 30, 2009
Keep your Facebook friends in your training loop. We’ve added facebook support to dailymile! You can already share your workouts on Twitter, but now you can post your workouts directly to your Facebook feed as well. Big shout out to dailymiler Mike Mangino and author of Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails for helping develop it!
You can start sharing your workouts on Facebook by linking your account. Next time you post a workout, you’ll see the above prompt, and you can disconnect it at any time.
We’re always working on making it easier to share your training. If you’ve got questions or a suggestion, please contact us. We love hearing from you.
March 19, 2009
We’re excited to announce Google Maps integration with dailymile! You can now map your favorite routes and share them with friends. You can either create a new map by clicking the “New” link in the route section of your workout tab, or by clicking the Routes link on your homepage menu. You’ll also be able to delete and edit past routes from your routes page. Check out this sweet route I’ve been running: Panhandle Route. What’s your favorite route?
Also, If this isn’t already awesome enough, we’re only a few miles away from break half a million miles logged!
December 18, 2008
Social training, now for the masses.
BIG NEWS: We’re happy to announce that dailymile is now out of private beta!
Dailymilers logged over 100,000 miles during the private beta–that’s four times around the world–and we’re looking forward to logging many more. Thanks to everyone who has given us feedback and logged miles. We’ve worked hard to incorporate your feedback and you all deserve the credit for the great experience on the site. It has been an amazing last few months, and we feel lucky to be apart of the dailymile community. You guys are awesome!
Help Us Spread the Word
If you love dailymile, we need your help to get the word out!
And, if that isn’t a good enough reason, how about a free iPod shuffle? (They’re great to work out with!) Write a blog post about our launch and let us know that you did. On Monday, we’ll pick a winner.
If you enjoy our site, don’t forget to share the love with your friends, family, and workout buddies too! As dailymilers, you know training is so much more fun with friends. Anyone can now sign up for the site and start training. You can invite your friends here:
http://www.dailymile.com/account/invitations.
Let your Twitter followers know that @dailymile has launched, get fit for the new year!
What’s on our roadmap?
We’ve had so much great feedback. Here are a few of the things we’re working on:
Routes — calculating the distance you ran or cycled and then sharing a map of your route with others is a top priority. We’ll be adding this functionality soon.
Workout Import — importing your workouts from Nike+ and Garmin devices. We use them too and know how nice it is to just plug it in and have your distance and time uploaded automatically.
Challenges — start a challenge and invite your friends to participate. First to run 100 miles? Fastest 5k? We’ve got some really cool features we can’t wait to show off.
As always, if you have questions or feedback, send us a note: contact at dailymile.com.
See you on dailymile!
- The dailymile team
We’ve just pushed live a new feature that allows you to record a video of yourself right on dailymile. Many thanks to our friends over at Seesmic who made this possible.
