How eTRaXC® Works
eTRaXC® is an online service for recording and tracking distance training for high school, college and club cross-country and track and field participants.  It was developed by a current high school cross-country coach in Minnesota (USA) to help motivate his student-athletes to record their mileage over the summer months. He felt that students who record their training are more likely to do the training.

The system works like this:

A coach signs their team up and then enters a roster (unlimited size). The program generates a user name and password for each participant (which they can change) and automatically sends them an email welcoming them to the service. There is also a Guest login that comes with the service. As well, each team is allowed up to 5 assistant coaches whose permissions are almost the same as the main coach (about the only thing they can not do is add other coaches).

Some of the major features include:

  • Training Features:
    • Participants log their training (running or cross-training) from anywhere they have internet access.
    • Participants can store training routes and individual workouts so they don't have to type them in every time
    • Participants can track their shoe mileage
    • Calendar-based log display
    • Daily, weekly, and monthly training graphs
    • A team summary table which shows cumulative training as well as the current week's totals
    • A "recent training" utility to view team members training by setting the beginning and ending dates over the period they want to view
    • A comprehensive Statistics Summary detailing all facets of training "by the numbers"
  • Features for Coaches:
    • A "Preferences" Utility to control which of the features of the system coaches want available to their teams
    • Daily email notification of which team members turned in training the previous day
    • The ability to send log-in information to team members at any time
    • The ability to manage your teams in-season and out
      • Out-of-season Team Management
        • Schedule workouts for 3 levels of teams as well as for individuals themselves
        • Monitor and direct the progress of your team members' off-season training as you see fit
      • In-season Team Management
        • Enter event schedules
        • Assign participants to races, print meet sheets, and enter results
        • Track school records and personal records
        • Rank participants by distance/time as well as show graphs of their seasonal progression
        • Tracks attendance and forms and fees as well as manages equipment
  • Other Features:
    • A Goals Utility for setting team and individual goals
    • The ability to have login information sent via email in case it is forgotten
    • A Fitness Monitor for keeping track of body weight and resting pulse (displayed as graphs)
    • Participants can enter race results and decide if they want those results to be "public" or not
    • Track prs at 20 distances and breaks them down into indoor track, outdoor track, cross-country, and road events
    • Group Email Utility
    • Team-level, Public, and Coaches-only Forums for team communication
    • Email Notification to all team members when someone on the team adds a forum thread or reply
    • The ability to Print Reports
  • Upcoming Features:
    • An expanded Weight Training Utility
    • A Nutrition Log
    • A Personal Log