David I'm with you and write everything down in a notebook taking a kind of hybrid approach. I take the notes but then drop them in a spreadsheet so I have both copies. I was team measuring with Brad Smythe, IAAF B from NC last weekend and he was doing the same thing, notes + spreadsheet.
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