Breaking 2 in 2032?
The consensus among the running community is that breaking the 2 hour barrier in the marathon is inevitable. That leaves one important question: “When?” In “A Statistical Timetable for the Sub-2-Hour Marathon” (click here...
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California High Schoolers are Getting Faster
The California high school cross country championship is one of the preeminent cross country meets in the nation each year, boasting the deepest collection of talent of any high school state meet. California held...
Running, Logically: the Answers
Two weeks ago we posted four logic puzzles about running based on Lewis Carroll’s sorites for you to solve. Here, as promised, are the answers! 1: No runner is too slow I usually finish...
The Yin-Yang of Fast Marathons
The leading women in New York City ran impressive negative splits. But that isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Running, Logically
There’s no evidence that Charles Dodgson (who you probably know better as Lewis Carroll) was ever a runner, but he gets to the essence of competitive running in his book Through the Looking Glass,...
How to Run a 2020 BQ Time at the 2018 New York City Marathon
Introduction In this post we use results from the last 11 years of the New York City Marathon (2006–2017, inclusive) — 488, 722 runners, including 303,394 males and 185,328 females — to explore how often participants achieve Boston...
