The Positions on the line chart drew every dog in grey and one in colour, joined by diagonal lines from one run to the next. With six dogs it was already unreadable. It is replaced by one strip per dog, and the page now also tells you how far each dog ran in each place, and what happened on the way.
What you see
- One strip per dog. Four lanes, from lead to wheel, and the fan hitch on its own, because a fan has no order. Each run is a block in the lane where the dog ran. If it changed place on the way, the block becomes a staircase: one piece per place, as long as its distance. An empty column: the dog did not run.
- Tap a run to see how the team was hitched: at the start, place by place; during the run, who changed place and who was dropped, to the kilometre; after, what you flagged. And who was not there.
- Over a season, beyond 30 runs, the page switches to one column per week: a bar's length is the distance run in that place that week.
- Distance by place. The table says, for each dog, how far it ran in lead, swing, team, wheel and fan, and what share of its distance that is. One row gives the same for the whole team. Every column sorts: who did the most wheel this month?
- Events and places. A dog dropped on the way, moved back towards the sled, flagged after the run (motivation, gait, recovery, demeanor) or injured that day: each event is filed under the place the dog held. For each place, the number of events, the distance the whole team ran there, and a rate per 100 km, next to the kennel average.
- On a dog's page, the same strip, reduced to that dog, with its distance bars run by run and the list of what happened to it.
All of it comes from what your phone already records: places when you hitch, changes on the way, a dog leaving the line, end-of-run flags. There is nothing more to enter. Kennel members see what the tab already showed them; nothing leaves the kennel.
What the page does not do
- It does not say why a dog was dropped. It knows where and at which kilometre, because the line changed; nobody records the reason today. That will be a question asked on the phone at the end of a run, in a later release.
- It never concludes that a place is dangerous. It counts, it does not judge. With a handful of events in a month, a single one moves a rate: the page says so under the table, and shows you the list of cases.
- It does not pick the team for you.
- It does not guess: an injury only has a date. If the dog ran twice that day, it is filed under no place.
Decisions that are not obvious
- The grid is gone. It was the default view, chosen a week ago. But the strip keeps exactly its columns, reads at a glance (lead at the top, wheel at the bottom) and carries the events. Keeping both meant two ways of reading the same thing.
- An event counts where it happened, by default. Yet a tired dog is often moved back to wheel before being dropped: counted that way, wheel collects the drops. A switch recounts each event at the place where the dog started the run. You get both readings rather than one chosen in silence.
- No rate under 100 km run in a place. Otherwise two flags over the 14 km run in swing would make the biggest number on the page. The count stays; only the rate waits until it means something.