When you get back from a run, you talk about the dogs: "Nala pulled the whole way", "Balto and Kiko keep picking at each other", "Cana had no legs today". Until now none of it stayed: the review only took a note for an injury or a sign. The phone's review now has an optional "Remarks" step, below the dogs.
What changes
- 🍋 The lemon and 🍊 the orange. The lemon goes to the day's troublemaker, the dog that ran least well; the orange to the star pupil, the one that ran best. At most one of each, each to a single dog, and neither is required. A "Why?" can be noted if you like. The dog that already holds a fruit is greyed out when you pick the other: no dog gets both.
- This run's pairs. The screen shows the pairs that really ran side by side, read from the recorded line, with their position and their kilometres together ("Balto + Nala · lead · 6.0 km together"): the pairs that ran together longest come first. For each: 👍 good pair, 👎 avoid, or nothing, and a note if needed.
- A note per dog, for everything else ("hasn't been eating well for two days").
- Everything can be corrected. The run's page has its "Remarks" card; "Correct" reopens the same screen. "Later" keeps what you already entered.
- The dog's page, "Partners". Every dog that ran next to it: how many runs together, how many 👍 and 👎, the last note. A pair counts as "good pair" or "avoid" according to its last verdict. Below, the dated history of its fruits and remarks, each line leading to its run. On the phone and on the website.
- The hitching screen reminds you. When you place a dog on the line, the screen names its good partners and warns you if it is next to a dog to "avoid".
- The season ranking, in the phone's "Trophies" card: oranges, lemons, km, most worked, today's form, regularity, versatility (positions held) and km in lead. A dog needs at least five runs in the season to be ranked.
- Three lemons in fourteen days for the same dog, and a task appears: "Check its fatigue, health and load". It blocks nothing.
What others see, and what never leaves the kennel
Remarks are read within your kennel: on the run's page and on the dogs' pages, by members. Nothing goes to the club, the public leaderboard or a share card. Noting and correcting them stays with the owner and handlers.
What it does not do
- The app never places a dog. It tells you who runs well with whom; you build the line. Automatic line filling does not read the pairs.
- No remarks on a race, for now: only after a training run.
- The website shows them, it does not enter them. Entering and correcting happens on the phone, when you get back.
- The lemon is not a penalty. The three-lemons signal is an invitation to look, not a rest put on your behalf.
Three choices made against the obvious
The lemon goes to the day's troublemaker. We could have invented a medal and a card; we kept the two fruits mushers already toss at each other when they get back: the lemon for the dog that ran least well, the orange for the star pupil. Two short words, said with a gloved hand, understood without a legend.
The last verdict wins. An average could have softened a pair that got on badly once in ten. But two dogs that have been picking at each other since the last run are picking at each other today: that is what the musher wants to know when building the line.
Pairs come from the line, not from a list. The screen does not offer every combination of the dogs that left: only those that ran side by side, with the distance covered together. A pair that only did one kilometre before a change of position is at the bottom of the list.