Almost a year ago I have started jogging in the evenings ... yes, mainly to compensate for the lack of exercise of my geeky lifestyle. Even before that I have made some attempts to make running a habit, however none of those experiments lasted very long.

So a year ago I found out that a great source of motivation for me is some kind of monitoring gadget that tells me various information about my exercise. This gadget turned out to be my phone that can count steps, and (approximately) estimate distances. Event hough the results are not all that accurate I am so far quite satisfied with it (no need to buy some fancy portable music player of some fancy fruit company). I was pretty happy just storing my data on my phone for half a year ... until I realized that the monitoring applications stores only several last exercises ... which is not very useful if one wants to monitor long-term progress.

So I started looking for some desktop application that would help me organize my data. I came across SportsTracker, a Java-based application ... that was not exactly what I was looking for, but close enough. Of course I had no intention of entering all the numbers into it manually (that would be a wast of my l33t skillz, yes?). So I created a small application that does it for me. Since there is at the moment no interest from the creator of SportsTracker to create some kind of plugin API, I am publishing my importer as it is ... a work-in-progress version. I hope somebody finds it at least partially useful.