Marathon Trainer

This program is a Java Swing program meant to provide a visual aid for your marathon training.

Given a training plan and a marathon date, this program will provide you with a calendar view of when you'll be training for what. Specifically, once you enter your training plan and launch the application, it'll tell you (for example) that today you'll be running 9 KM at a regular pace. (The paces for the different run types are defined via the training plan.)

Requirements

Gradle 1.6+ is required to build marathon-trainer.

Building the Code

To compile the code, run all the tests, and publish the jar into the release directory, type the following:

gradle

The default gradle task is to "clean", "build", and "copyTrainingPlans".

Setup

All your different training plans should be placed into the training-plan directory.

Files within the training-plan directory should be structured as such:

# [half|full] [target time]
half 2h

# [run-type] [length or range]
tempo 5:30
speed 4:00-4:30
regular 6:30

# sunday | monday  | tuesday | wednesday | thursday    | friday | saturday
tempo 3  | hills 1 |   rest  | regular 9 | speed 2.6 2 | long 2 | rest
tempo 3  | hills 1 |   rest  | regular 9 | speed 2.6 3 | long 2 | rest
tempo 3  | hills 1 |   rest  | regular 9 | speed 2.6 4 | long 2 | rest
tempo 3  | hills 1 |   rest  | regular 9 | speed 3.2 5 | long 2 | rest

(Lines beginning with # are comments and should NOT be included in the file.)

Acceptable run types are the following:

• Tempo
• Regular
• Challenge
• Speed
• Hills
• Fartlek
• Long
• Marathon (the speed you should run at the marathon)
• Rest

Note that the first part of the file should be the run type followed by a time (minute:seconds) or a time range (minutes:seconds-minutes:seconds). Make sure there are no spaces, and add a blank line in between the calibration times and the training plan. All distances are in kilometers.