The following images were shamelessly pilfered from the runpix.com website which does visualizations of marathon races. Frankly, being a data wienie — or more specifically a heart rate data wienie, these guys and gals do really cool stuff. Check it!
The view above shows the runners who finished in the 30 seconds before and after my [...]
Just a quick post on yesterdays run. Results are as follows:
Chip Time: 3:31:29
Clock Time: 3:33:57
Overall place: 1373/20667
Gender place: 1194/12610
Division place: 234/2263
Age Grade: 59.3%
I don’t really understand the age grade number. There’s a blurb on what it means, but the only interesting aspect of it is 60% is the minimum level for a “local level” performance. [...]
I was reading the book “PRE” by Tom Jordan on the flight into Washington DC last night and ventured upon a short commentary by Mary Decker. If the name isn’t familiar, she’s known as Mary Slaney these days. Of course having spent a little bit of time on the track in the early 80’s, it [...]
