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Following and writing on the phone

Updated on 2026-10-19

For:Coach guide

What you will do

Follow your athletes, reply to their feedback and write their week from the phone, without opening the website: the list sorted by what needs doing, an athlete's follow-up, then their week, one day at a time, down to the steps of a session.

What you need

  • A verified Pro account that offers coaching, and an active coaching with the athlete.
  • A connection: everything the coach reads and writes is read and written online. Offline, the screen says so and sends nothing.
  • To write: an active plan on the athlete's goal.

Step by step

  1. Open “My athletes”. Pro space, first tab. The “To handle” filter is selected: health to look at, feedbacks with no reply, empty week, plan rarely followed. “All” shows the rest.
  2. Tap an athlete. At the top, “For you to do”; then “The numbers”: plan followed over 4 weeks, week load (done, of planned), team form (out of 100, 50 = neither fresh nor tired), average feedback. Below, “Planned and done, 8 weeks”: per week, the planned load and the load done, the form line, then the same written as one line per week. Further down, their dogs and their health logbook, read only.
  3. Reply to their feedback. Under “Feedback”, the last 28 days, newest first: traction, eagerness, recovery, pads, their note. Write in “Your reply”, then “Reply”; a reply already given is taken up again with “Edit the reply”.
  4. Tap “Write the week”. It opens on this week; “Previous week” and “Next week” go to the others. Pick the day on the two rails (Mon–Thu, Fri–Sun).
  5. Edit a session. “Edit”: distance or duration, intensity zone, rig, dogs on this session, note. “Save”.
  6. Split it into steps. “Split into steps” (or “Edit steps”): “Add a step” (name, minutes, seconds, free or pulling, an optional word shown) and “Add a block to repeat” (how many times, then its steps: “8 × climb 1 min, walk down 1 min”). The total duration shows; “Save steps”. A badly filled step is refused with the reason, before anything is sent. “Remove steps” makes the session one block again.
  7. Or start from another one. “Duplicate” copies the session on the same day; “Make it a rest day” empties the day; “Save as a template” keeps it for your other athletes; a template is placed in one tap under “Add … from a template”.
  8. Copy a whole week. “Copy the previous week” copies the week before into this one, steps included.

What you should see

  • “Saved.” under the days, and the changed session.
  • On the athlete's side, on their goal: “Held by your coach” instead of “In my hands”.
  • The follow-up numbers following your change when you go back to the athlete.
  • Under the session, “14 steps · 35 min”: the steps unrolled (a 6 × 2 block counts 12) and their duration.
  • Under the feedback, “Your reply: …”.

What others see

  • Your athlete sees the session you wrote, and that their plan is held by their coach: MushMate no longer regenerates it until they hand it back to the generator.
  • The steps reach their guided session that day: the phone announces them one by one, countdown included.
  • Your reply is read under their feedback, on their phone and on the website — and by the members of their kennel, like the feedback itself.
  • Your templates are yours alone: neither your athlete nor another Pro sees them.

What it does not do

  • Nothing offline: no queue, no deferred write. The phone refuses before sending.
  • A note alone does not hold the plan: only a changed session does.
  • The logbook is read, not written: health stays with the musher and their vet.
  • Steps go on a DATED day: a plan week without a date gets none (“This week has no date”).
  • One reply per feedback: editing it replaces the previous one; there is no discussion thread.
  • The curve is not touched: it is read, the line of text below says the same numbers.

If something goes wrong

  • “The plan changed while you were editing”: your athlete, or you on the website, changed it in the meantime. Read it again, redo your change.
  • “Your coaching of this athlete has ended”: the end date has passed or access was withdrawn.
  • “This athlete has no active plan”: they must first create their goal and plan.
  • “This server version does not carry the coach editor yet”: try again after the server update.

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