The list of your outings

Traces brings together every outing your kennel has: GPS outings synced from the app, outings logged by hand, Strava imports, races, GPX tracks you imported, and the reference routes MushMate shares. The left column sorts them into folders — On foot, Dryland, Snow (each with its own count), Races, Imported, Manual outings, Strava import, References — and "All" lists everything together.

Each row shows a mini-map (or a plain icon for a manual outing or a Strava import, neither of which has any recorded track), the title, date, distance, duration and average speed, the dogs on the run, a "New" badge for seven days, and a warning if the outing went above your kennel's heat threshold. On a wide screen, hovering a row opens its preview in the panel on the right without leaving the list. A GPS outing or an imported track also gets its own GPX download.

The owner imports a GPX track, from a file or a URL, from the "Import a track" button. The owner and the handler can also tidy up: selecting one or more rows offers to delete them permanently, or, when the row allows it, to erase just its recorded GPS path while keeping the outing itself. Both actions ask for an explicit confirmation and cannot be undone.

An outing's recap

Opening a GPS outing first shows its key figures: Distance, Total elapsed, Moving time (when it differs from the total), Avg speed and Surface. An imported GPX track with no timestamps at all shows a Duration (estimated) instead, worked out from the declared distance and speed rather than measured.

Below that, the route map and the speed graph share the same cursor: hover over either one and a marker appears on the other, with a readout giving the time, distance and speed at that point. On the graph, your stops are visible: orange bands as wide as their DURATION — a long band for a long break, a thin mark for a short stop. Cumulative elevation (D+/D-) shows separately when it could be measured.

Below the graph, the "Splits (per km)" table breaks down every kilometre — time and speed — with the fastest one flagged; a track with no timestamps only shows distance there. The "Dogs" card shows who ran: the team laid out as it actually was, with each dog's photo when one exists and its individual rating of effort when one was recorded. A "What happened" card follows: the team's timeline if its layout changed during the outing, then your stops — how many, their total time, the longest one, and the kilometre mark of each when it could be established.

The owner and the handler can go back and fix what the capture got wrong — surface, rig, intensity zone, temperature, how it felt — and add or remove a dog that was missed on the team. The owner alone can also publish the outing and copy its public link.

Outings logged by hand and Strava imports open their own, simpler recap: with no recorded GPS path on either side, there is no map, no speed graph, no splits, and no GPX — just the same declared figures and the same settings to correct.

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