To enable coaching features, make sure to select “coach” as one of your Roles on the Settings Page.

Managing athletes

The following features are available at the Athletes Page.

Adding a new athlete

To invite a new athlete, click the Invite Athlete button. Enter the athlete’s name and email address. An email will be sent to the athlete requesting them to confirm you as a coach. After following the link, they can either log in, or create a new ultraPacer login if needed, and accept the coaching invitation. The coach will receive an email confirmation. You can also use the “Resend” button to send the invitation again.

A couple notes:

• You can go ahead create and modify plans for an athlete before they have accepted the invitation. After they accept, any plans you have created for the athlete will be syncronized to their account.
• The email address you enter does not have to be the same as the one the athlete uses to log into ultraPacer

Modifying an athlete

Select the Settings button for the athlete you wish to modify. Whatever you enter into the “Athlete Name” field is visible to you only.

Adjustments to the pacing models (currently available for altitude and darkness) can be applied for the athlete. See the models documentation for more on how these work.

Deleting an athlete

Select the Delete button to remove an athlete. If the athlete has accepted the invitation for coaching (and connected their own account), any plans created for that athlete will still be available for that user through their own login. If that athlete has not accepted the invitation, any plans for the athlete will be deleted.

Athletes in your dashboard

Past and upcoming runs for any of your athletes will appear in your Dashboard. There is a filter button at the top right of the feed which will allow you to filter by athlete.

In your user profile widget (not visible on mobile screens) you will see an Athletes button that will list your athletes and indicate which athletes have upcoming runs.

Creating a plan for an athlete

To create a plan for an athlete, follow the same steps as shown the Create/Modify Plans documentation, but as a coach you will now see an “Athlete” field in the Edit Plan form. Select an athlete other than “Me”. Once you save a plan to an athlete, you cannot go back and change the athlete specified (its a one-way deal). You can create multiple plans for any athlete.

This new plan will appear in your athlete’s Dashboard when they log in. They will be able to view and modify the plan, so you can work collaboratively.

A note about notes: if you select a row in the Plan table, you will be able to enter either “Athlete Notes” and “Plan Notes” for that waypoint. The “Athlete Notes” will appear for all that athlete’s plans for the course, while the “Plan Notes” will only appear for the specific plan you are viewing. For example, you may want “Snickers in my drop bag” to show for all plans, because Snickers are always good all the time, but only want “Bring an extra water bottle” to show up in your hot day plan.

Calendar view

Coming soon.