Saturday, 9:00, club outing from the pass. Until now, MushMate knew that outing existed — its title, its time, who is coming — but not that you were there. At the start, you had to find its trail, if it was in your kennel at all; in the evening, nothing said the run you recorded was the club's.

What changes

In the morning, the home screen offers it. Your kennel answered “I'm coming”, the outing starts in less than three hours, and its trail is on the phone: the day block becomes the outing — the name of its trail, the club, the start time, the place — with “Go on this trail” and “Prepare the team”. The plan's session stays as a link underneath, if you would rather follow it.

At the start, the trail is followed track only. At the “Follow a trail or a ghost?” step, the club outing comes first, under “Suggested”. If you have run its trail before, your last run on it is the ghost; otherwise it is followed track only. The other trails of your clubs and events have their own section, and always stay “track only”. Under the list, “For: <the outing>”: that is what will attach your run. “Remove” takes it off.

Without network too. The phone keeps the trails shared with your clubs and the outings of the next two weeks, and refreshes them regularly (at most every 30 minutes, and when you refresh). In a valley with no signal, the day card, the suggestion and the track are there.

Event races too. Registered for an event, you find its races just like club outings: today's card, “Suggested”, “Counted for …”. On the website, today's outing or race is marked “Today”; if you answered “I'm coming”, it reminds you that you start from the phone, where its trail is already downloaded. A cancelled event disappears from the phone, its trail included; a run already counted for it stays counted.

In the evening, the review says so. “Counted for <the outing>”, with “Detach” if you were not really there. Started without “For” — from the “Start now” bar, or a run left unfinished and completed later — but on the right trail at the right time: “Did you run the trail of <the outing>?” and “Attach”. The same line is on the run's page, on the website.

A race started in Race mode, on a race day of your plan, is not attached to the club outing today: it is registered, to be done.

What others see

The club sees your participation, and nothing else: never your time, never your dogs. The run's page on the website says it in so many words: “Your time and your dogs stay in your kennel.”

That participation is read in the participation league — who comes to outings, per club and per event —: one number per kennel, between members only.

The members of your kennel see, as before, the whole run. On the website, a reader of the kennel sees “Counted for …” without being able to change it.

What it does not do

The choices against the obvious

Track only, even when the trail has times. A club trail has often been run by the kennel that drew it, and its times would make a ready-made ghost. We do not show them: a kennel's pace does not leave its kennel — that was the promise of sharing trails. For the suggested outing, your ghost is your own last run on that trail, if you have run it before.

From 3 h before to 6 h after, not “on the day”. A club has no time zone to guess, and a night outing would straddle two days. The outing is offered from three hours before its start to six hours after: an outing at 1:00 is offered from 22:00 the evening before.

An offline run is never refused. If the club outing was cancelled while you were out, or if your kennel left the club before your run left the phone, it still arrives — without the attachment. Losing a run over a label would have been worse than losing the label. A participation already recorded stays when your kennel leaves the club.