A kilometre counter rewards exactly what the load model tries to hold back: doing more. What makes a team progress is keeping its plan week after week, rest included, and knowing its dogs well. That is what the new card measures.
What you see
On the Statistics page, below « Positions on the line », a « Consistency and care » card:
- The streak: the number of weeks kept in a row up to last week, and your best over two years. When the streak matches your best, the card says so; otherwise it says how many weeks you are short.
- The strip: your recent weeks, one square each. Filled when the week was kept, outlined when the plan asked for nothing, grey when it was missed; the current week fills up as you go. The current streak is underlined, and each square names its week on hover.
- This week: « 2 outing days for 3 planned sessions ». The current week is read, not judged: it counts once it is over.
- Care, over your active dogs: how many have an up-to-date weighing, how many an up-to-date body condition (the window is your « Measure freshness » setting, 30 days by default), and how many have their perceived effort rated on enough days for the model to adjust to them. The others show a bar and their count: Juno 5/8.
A week runs from Monday to Sunday. It is kept when every session planned by your current objective's plan has its outing day. Without a plan, one outing is enough. An outing is a training session, a race or another activity.
What others see
Nothing. The card lives in your statistics, which only kennel members open. It enters no leaderboard, and nothing is shared.
What it does not do
- Count days. There is no daily streak.
- Count per dog. The streak belongs to the kennel.
- Nudge you. No notification, no points, no rewards.
- Compare kennels. Consistency is not ranked.
- Read your other objectives. The current objective, the one on the home page, is the one that counts.
- Show in the phone app. It is on the website.
Seven choices made against the obvious
A week, not a day. A daily streak would have been simpler, and more "motivating". Above all, it would have pushed you to take the dogs out every day so as not to break it. Rest is part of training: it cannot cost you a streak.
We count per week, not day by day. A session planned on Thursday and done on Friday keeps the week. You need as many outing days as planned sessions, whichever days they fall on. Weather, a limping dog, the unexpected: the week is still kept if you catch up.
The plan's rest never breaks the streak. A week in which the plan has no session is kept, even without an outing. And a race day is not a due session: on the day you raced, you did not miss training.
"8" is the model's real threshold, not an invented target. Below eight days of rated effort, the model does not adjust its parameters to that dog. And they are eight days: two rated outings on the same day count as one, because that is how the model counts them. Eight days are not always enough, the ratings must also vary: that is why the card says "before the model can adjust", never "the model has adjusted".
A missed week is grey, not red. The strip reads your weeks, it does not grade them. Red means an alert; a week without an outing is not one.
The strip starts at your first outing. A kennel that has just arrived does not see six months of grey squares: the strip goes no further back than the first week in which something happened. A summer break, on the other hand, stays visible.
Care is a state, not a task. Dogs to re-score stay in « Handle now », on the home page, with the gesture to make. The card says where the pack stands. Putting these counters in the task list would have taught you to stop reading it.