Club 100 Library - 415/939-1246 BBS 937-5039 NEWSLETTER, 932-8856 VOICE This Jogging record and aerobic point program works with the system devised by Dr. Kenneth Cooper in his fitness work in Texas. He was really the one to coin the phrase, "aerobic". These points can be earned with any strenous cardio-vascular training, ie: running, X-country skiing, swimming, biking, tennis, etc. His books at your local library give charts for the relative value of these other exercises. This program works with times and distances to calculate the bodily expenditure from walking-jogging-running. If one earns 40+ pts/week it gives us a significant insurance against heart/lung disease. Earning 70+ pts/week means we're in better shape than 3/4 of the population. 100+ pts/week is athletic condition. The program creates a .do file called "work" that contains the results from each run that week. It uses another called "record" for permanent storage, and one called "miles" that tracks the total mileage. (I use this to record wear on the pair of shoes.) It sounds complicated, but in operation isn't! (Create "Miles.do" first with zero in it.) One presses "A" to record each run, inputing at the prompts; "P" gives the weekly subtotal so far; "T" totals the week, writes it to "record.do", erases "work.do", and adds the mileage to "miles.do". "G" graphs the last 6 week's points. If it's working with "record.do" then just press at the file prompt, otherwise you can graph another file. This is useful for checking older data. It asks for walking points after "A"; if you haven't taken additional walks, just press . (Figure apprx. 2/pts mile for brisk walking) Change the comments given to correspond to your speeds. I add a text line to "record" at the top of the file for each run, pasting this with the week's statistics. This helps remember things such as weather, jogging partners, or aches and pains! If one saves to disk "record" in 12 week batches, it makes future graphing more handy. Hope you enjoy using it, I do!