Yesterday I ran the Boston Marathon, finished 14th, and ran a 45 second PB for 2:06:04.. and I’m both incredibly proud and dissatisfied.. thoughts below ⬇️
With the Boston Marathon today, a good time to re-up one of the greatest figures in sports data: the distribution of marathon finish times (n=9,789,093). The spike at 4:00 is not a coincidence.