Musher guide

What MushMate offers a musher

An account, a kennel (yours, or your team's), and two apps for the same kennel life: the website, where you prepare and review, and the phone, which records in the field. Five things come to you:

Your dogs: one record per dog, added by hand or imported, with its logbook and history.
A training plan: a season, goals, a week-by-week plan — that MushMate adjusts, and that you can take over "In my hands" when the week doesn't go as planned.
Your runs: recorded on the phone, imported from Strava, Garmin, adidas or a GPX file, then reread with their recap, their figures and their track.
Your trails and your times: a loop you redo becomes a trail, and your runs are compared on it.
Your team: roles (owner, handler, vet, viewer, guide), invitations, and an access that can stop by itself.

Your first week

Create your account, your kennel and your first dog: see Creating your account, your kennel and your first dog.
Add the rest of the pack: see Adding your dogs.
Create a season and a goal, then read your plan: see Creating a season and a goal, then Adapting your plan.
Record your first run on the phone: see Recording a run.
Import the ones you already have, if they are elsewhere: see Importing your runs.
Reread a run: see Rereading a run, then Your trails and your times.
Invite your team: see Inviting your team.
Know where you stand: see Your subscription, your backup and deleting your account.

What others see — and never see

The members of your kennel see your dogs, your plan, your runs and their corrections, according to the role you gave them.
Nobody outside the kennel sees anything until you publish: a run through its public link (without its first and last 500 metres), a trail by sharing it with a club or making it public.
A session imported from Strava is visible to you alone: that is Strava's rule.
A partner who offers you MushMate only sees the number of activations of their code — never your name, nor your kennel's.

What it does not do

The plan is not veterinary advice: an expert can validate it, MushMate does not do it in their place.
MushMate does not guess what you didn't say: a dog with no answer at the end of a run is recorded without a feeling, never "all fine".
Nothing regenerates by itself: the banners suggest, you click.
Correcting a run does not erase the GPS: the original measurement stays displayed next to yours.
A kennel is private by default: nothing is public until you turn a setting on.

Pages in this guide

Getting started with MushMate

Getting started with MushMate
Create your account, create or join your team's kennel, and find the same kennel on mobile and on the web.
Creating your account, your kennel and your first dog
From zero to a kennel ready to work: an account, a kennel you own, and a first dog — on the web as on the phone.

GPS tracking during an outing

GPS tracking during an outing
Permissions to grant, what each GPS indicator state means, and the related FAQ.
Recording a run with your phone
Choosing the activity, building the line, starting, stopping and doing the review: a GPS-recorded run, even without a network.

Your dogs

Adding your dogs
Adding a dog by hand, importing a whole pack from a file or a paper record, and removing a dog without losing its history.
Your dogs
Your dog roster, each dog's own record — health, training, kennel life, pedigree — and weight tracking.

The training plan

Creating a season and a goal, then reading your plan
Describing your season, declaring a race or a goal, and reading the plan MushMate builds for your team, week by week.
Adapting your plan: closing a day, editing a week, taking it in your hands
When the week doesn't go as planned: closing a day, changing a session, accepting or refusing a proposal, and taking the plan over for good.
The training plan
Set a race objective, generate and follow your training plan week by week, and decide on the adjustments the engine proposes.

Traces and recaps

Importing your runs from Strava, Garmin, adidas or a GPX file
Bringing in runs recorded elsewhere: choosing the route by source, importing a file or a batch, and knowing what the kennel sees.
Rereading a run and correcting what the capture got wrong
Opening a run's recap, reading it, correcting the figures, the team and the places, and choosing whether to share it.
Importing your outings
Garmin Connect, adidas Running, Strava: how to get your outings out of those apps and into MushMate, one at a time or a whole history at once.
Traces and recaps
Your list of outings, each one's full recap — map, speed graph, stops, splits — and what you can correct there.

Races and stages

Your trails and times: saving a loop, comparing your runs
Turning a loop you redo into a trail, choosing who sees it, following your times and comparing yourself with your ghost.
Times: your trails' times
A trail's times live on its page: your outings that follow it, your record, your progress, and the leaderboards between kennels, at equal distance.

Gear

Gear
Your kennel's gear inventory, the sizes each dog wears, the maintenance you've logged, and the rig you pick for an outing.

Team

Inviting your team: one role per person, an access that can stop by itself
Invite a teammate by email, pick their role, limit their access to one season, share the link if the email doesn't arrive, and hand over ownership.
Team
Shared tasks, messages, protocols, availability and notes: day-to-day team life, once you're in the kennel.

Partner

What your mushers see — and what they don't
The \"Offered by …\" signature, the partner's card, the reminder fourteen days before the end: what shows on the musher's side while your offer runs, and nowhere else.

Settings and subscription

Your subscription, your backup and deleting your account
Know where you stand (trial, comped, member, read-only), keep a copy of your data, and close your account if you decide to.
Settings and subscription
Your account, your kennel's profile and visibility, backup, connected apps, and what your subscription changes.
Using a partner code
A partner gave you a word like SNOWDAY: typing it or opening their link, seeing what is offered, and knowing what happens at the end.