A walk with the retirees, a swimming session for a dog coming back from an injury, a bike ride on the leash: until now, these outings were logged afterwards, by hand, in “Log an outing”. The phone could record a canicross or a sled on GPS, not a walk. That's fixed.
What you do
At the start, under the “Which activity?” grid, a “Multi-activity — no traction, with GPS” group offers five tiles: free walk, swimming, strength, bike ride, other. One tap opens the recording: the GPS indicator, then “Start recording”. During the outing, the screen shows moving time, total duration and distance; “Finish” stops it.
“Log an outing” then opens prefilled: the date, the kind, the moving duration, the distance. Everything can be corrected. Tick the dogs who were there — or none, they are optional —, a perceived effort if you like, a note, and “Save”. The outing lands in the Journal and in the dogs' logbook, with its track.
What others see
The outing belongs to the kennel, like any activity without traction: the owner, handlers and members see it in the phone's Journal and on the website, where its page now shows the recorded track. Nothing else: no pace, no comparison, no leaderboard.
What it doesn't do
It does not count toward load. Nothing is being pulled: the outing goes through neither the line, nor the places, nor the end-of-run review, and the plan doesn't read it. This isn't a “not yet”: a two-hour walk is not a two-hour training run, and counting it as one would skew your dogs' fitness.
It doesn't show on the Launcher as “in progress” either. If the phone dies during the outing, reopen the same tile: the recording resumes. Stopped without being saved, the outing waits — “An outing is waiting to be saved” — until you save or discard it.
The choices we made
Five tiles, not a single “Multi-activity” button. A button would have opened a second grid to pick the kind; the five tiles, already laid out as under “Log an outing”, save a tap and hide nothing.
The “Log an outing” form, not a review. An outing without traction is told in four figures you know better than the GPS: we prefill them, you have the last word — the length of a swim, for instance, which the phone left on the bank doesn't measure.
Dogs optional. A walk is sometimes done alone, to scout a path: it still deserves its track.