The goal of the Phidippides Project is to develop a data-informed runner's toolbox. What should your marathon pace be? How many miles a week should you run to achieve your goal? How should weather influence your race goals? This is a work in progress, and I'll post updates here as they come.

How slow was the 2016 Vermont City Marathon?

Posted on June 10, 2016

The 2016 edition of the Vermont City Marathon was stopped for the first time ever at 3 hours and 58 minutes into the race due to extreme heat. Anyone who had the pleasure of running and watching the event knows that it was a tough race. Many... [Read More]

Marathon Predictor v0.1

Posted on August 1, 2015

My first version of a marathon performance predictor. The height of the curve gives the probability of a marathon time given the input values. Note that the distribution is asymmetric, as a much faster time is less likely to occur than a much slower than predicted time. <iframe width="950" height="700"... [Read More]

Why?

Posted on January 1, 2015

I love to run. I enjoy working with data. I’m combining those interests here. [Read More]