Data Analyst
I will be racing a 10k at Cheltenham Racecourse on June 13th (as long as the race is not cancelled because of Covid!). My recent PB is a smidge under 51 minutes, but I am targeting a finishing time of 48 minutes. Below is my 4-week training plan. Week 1 is almost finished already. Click…
My Garmin Forerunner 245 watch records my heart rate, stress levels, steps, activities, sleep, location, and much more throughout the day. The resulting data can be viewed on the associated Garmin mobile phone app and via the Garmin Connect web service. The watch is a fantastic piece of technology, but there is no way to…
I have collected my heart rate data for the last 7 months from my sports watch. In order to visualise trends, I have used Excel to bin the data in 5 beats per minute intervals. Below shows this data for the first five hours of sleep for each day. Again in Excel I made the…
I have been looking at training plans for 10k and half marathon runs, and they all quote minutes per kilometre or minutes per mile paces. Looking at it the other way, I want to know what pace do I (or any other runner) have to maintain in order to achieve a particular 5k, 10k, half,…
I set out intending to run for 90 minutes while keeping my heart rate in the range of 160-170 bpm for my weekly ‘long run’, but as the first hour felt so easy, I ploughed on to half marathon distance. The map below shows the route together with that pacing required to maintain my heart…
Pictured below is a chart showing my heart rate measured during (approximate) sleeping hours of midnight to 7am daily for the last seven months (October 2020 to April 2021 inclusive). There were around 96,000 heart rate measurements made by my sports watch, and only those taken between midnight and 7am were used below. Apparently my…
Below is an Excel chart of my lowest recorded heart rate (BPM) every night for the last six months. Click on the chart to view in full size. There is not a huge amount to say about it except that my lowest heart rate each night has been below 50bpm much more often since the…
I have been collecting my heart rate data from my sports watch continuously since 15th October 2020. As of today (15th April 2021), I have 183 days of data or half a year with a total of 89,662 (non-exercising) heart rate readings. I am most interested in my sleeping heart rate and heart rate when…
Today (12th April 2021), I ran my fastest 10k since a one-off race in 1997. When I started running again back in 2019, I started keeping records to track my progression, so my ‘personal bests’ refer to the period 2019 to today. Here is a chart to show the progression of my 10k personal best…
Today I interpolated the 10km pace of all of my recorded runs of longer than 10km and those of my friend and plotted them on the chart below. (Click to view in full size.) Many of the runs were of far longer than 10km, so working out the average pace does not always allow for…