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Following your athletes: to handle, four numbers, the curve

Updated on 2026-10-19

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What you will do

See at a glance which athlete needs a gesture, then read where one of them stands: what they did of the week you wrote, their dogs' form, what they said about it.

What you need

  • A Pro account that offers coaching, and an active coaching with the athlete.
  • For the numbers: an active plan on their goal, and recorded outings.

Step by step

  1. Open “My athletes”. The title says how many are “to handle”, and the list puts them first: an open injury (Health), feedbacks with no reply, an empty week, a plan barely kept. Each row gives its reason, or Ok, and the plan kept over 4 weeks. On the phone, the “To handle” / “All” filter sorts the same way.
  2. Open an athlete. Under their name, “Athlete follow-up”: An athlete's follow-up: “For you to do”, the four numbers, the planned-and-done curve over 8 weeks with the form line, the dogs and the logbook. Example data.
  3. Read “For you to do”. One line per expected gesture, for example “3 session feedbacks without a reply”.
  4. Read the four numbers. With the example in the picture — three dogs, a plan of three sessions a week:
    • Plan kept · 4 wk — the outings done over the last 28 days, against the sessions the plan had on those days: 9 outings for 12 planned sessions = 75 %. Capped at 100 %.
    • Load · 7 days — the dogs' training load over the last 7 days (today included), done, then planned by the plan: 174, planned 270 — two outings out of three, a little shorter.
    • Team form — the mean of the latest measured form of each active dog (a retired dog does not count): here −4, “balanced”. Negative: the dogs carry fatigue; positive: they are fresh. On the phone, the same form is given out of 100: 42 / 100 (50 = neither fresh nor tired).
    • Average feedback — the pulling the athlete felt and noted after their outings of the last 28 days: 7, 8, 6 and 5 → 6.5 / 10. Older feedback does not count.
  5. Read the “Planned and done, 8 weeks” curve. Per week, the light bar is the planned load, the green bar the load done; the black line is the form at week end. The last week is the coming one: planned only. Below the figure, each week's form is written out (“3 · 0 · −5 · 7 · −2 · −8 · −4 · —”).
  6. Scroll down: their dogs, their logbook. For each dog: body condition, weight, resting or not. The first eight and any resting dog show; “Show the N other dogs” unfolds the rest. The whole health logbook unfolds, read only.

What you should see

  • A green bar lower than the light one: a week done less than planned (in the example, the 4th: 120 of 180, one outing missed).
  • A line going up after a lighter week: the dogs recover (the 4th week: 7).
  • The same numbers on the phone, in “My athletes”.

What others see

  • Your athlete does not see this follow-up: they see their plan, their outings and your replies, on their side.
  • Another Pro sees nothing of your athletes.

What it does not do

  • No number is corrected here: they are recomputed from their outings and their plan.
  • The logbook is not written: health stays with the musher and their vet.
  • A session you place carries no planned load until MushMate has recomputed it: the light bar can stay low that day.
  • No comparison between athletes: each one is read alone.

If something goes wrong

  • “—” instead of a number: nothing to measure yet (no outing over the period, no plan, or no feedback).
  • An empty curve: the athlete has neither an active plan nor an outing over the 8 weeks.
  • “Access ended”: the coaching is over, or the athlete withdrew access.

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