Many of you have two pairs of runners, one for the cold, one for warm snow, and swap them with the trail. Until now, MushMate only saw the sled: the runners' wear was mixed up with its own, a sled service reset everything, and nothing said which pair was mounted when.
What changes
- A "Runners" equipment type. A pair is an item of its own, in Equipment: a name ("Cold plastic"), a brand, a wear limit in kilometres.
- On a sled's page, "Mounted runners". The pair in place, "Since …", its wear bar, its kilometres and its limit. The bar turns to a caution colour at 80 % of the limit.
- "Change pair" mounts another pair as of today; the pair in place is removed on the same date. On the website, you choose the day.
- "Other pairs": the kennel's free pairs, their kilometres, the day they were last removed. "Mounts": the history, most recent first, with the kilometres of each period. On the phone, the day of a change can be corrected with a tap. A pair's page shows its own mounts.
- A pair's kilometres are the runs and races of its sled while it was mounted. The sled keeps all of its own.
- The day of a change counts for the new pair only. That day's run wears the pair you just mounted, never both.
- "Replaced", in Stock. A "Runners" stock item linked to a pair: "Replaced" takes a spare out of stock and resets that pair to zero.
- Servicing the sled no longer touches the runners, and changing runners doesn't touch the sled. Each has its own limit; the email reminder and the "Maintenance due" badge work for a pair as for the rest of your equipment.
- On the website, in addition, every equipment card shows the kilometres counted from runs ("X km covered (outings)"), next to the usage you entered.
What others see, and what never leaves the kennel
Pairs, their mounts and their kilometres are read by your kennel's members, in Equipment. Mounting, changing a pair and correcting the day of a change: the owner and handlers. None of it goes to the club, a public page or a share card.
What it does not do
- A pair is one item. No separate front and back, or left and right runner, no measured thickness.
- The app does not ask for the pair when a run starts. The mount stays true until you change it: if you swap pairs without saying so, the kilometres go to the old one.
- Nothing is rebuilt in the past. A pair added today counts from the day you give it; MushMate does not invent earlier mounts.
- Quads and karts have no runners.
Three choices made against the obvious
An item, not a counter on the sled. A "runners" counter on the sled's page would have been simpler. It doesn't survive the first swap with the snow: it wouldn't know whom to give the kilometres to. A pair with its own page, mounts and limit does.
The day of the change goes to the new pair. You swap runners in the morning, before leaving. Splitting that day's run between two pairs would be wrong; giving it to the old one too.
Two changes on the same day leave an empty period. If you mount a pair and then change your mind the same day, the history keeps a zero-day period rather than erasing it. The phone writes offline, in the order you acted; a deletion could arrive after the next change and take the wrong one with it.