Thursday, 10 December 2015

Chicago marathoners: where do they come from?

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In an apparent mini-series of marathon maps, today I plotted the travel origin for runners of the 2014 Chicago marathon. I colour-coded sepa...
Sunday, 6 December 2015

A global map of major marathons

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Using a newly-uncovered online tool called CartoDB (thanks Alex !), I assembled a map of all the marathons available at arrs.net  based on l...
Monday, 30 November 2015

Cross country nationals and other unrelated things

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My last race of the year, the Canadian XC championships , is complete. Hosted atop Kingston's Fort Henry on a cold but windless day, it ...
Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Doping, athletics, and the Olympics

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A spectre is haunting Athletics. Ok, so there has *obviously* been a lot of media attention on the Russian doping scandal. It boils down to...
Sunday, 25 October 2015

Half marathon, XC, and other races

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After the race, Heather and I enjoying the valley view On Thanksgiving Sunday I awoke at 5:15 am, ready, more or less, to finish the las...
Sunday, 4 October 2015

Racewalking: The hidden flight path

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Anyone who has watched racewalking intuitively knows it's different from running, hence it has as much credibility as classic technique ...
Monday, 28 September 2015

Rum runner's relay and the personal trophy

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On the weekend I was part of the winning team for the Rum Runner's Relay  (A Few Good Men). The team award has gone to HRC (Halifax Runn...