When I joined RunScribe, I was more of a cyclist than a runner. I’d been a runner in my younger years and was excited to get back to my running roots, but it took time for my body to acclimate to the strain. When I started to rack up more miles, I felt it in my legs — especially my … Read More
It Helps to Know How to Fly
Not a shocker but the more you fly, the faster you’ll finish a marathon. Flight ratio is an indicator of efficiency, so we were particularly interested to look at our data from the 2015 NYC Marathon to analyze breakdown of flight ratio over finish times. We discovered flight ratio is much more strongly correlated to finish times than the infamous 180 … Read More
Steps & Gs (NYC 2015 Marathon)
It takes 32,000 steps to finish a marathon in 3 hours. Since we know runners in that category are in the air longer, it makes sense that more time means more steps. But how many? Turns out, about 4,000 steps for each additional 30 minutes. For those who finished after 5.5 hours, that means they take 50% more steps than the … Read More