Half-marathon training – what actually happened

Posted by Cecilia on Monday, May 1, 2006 · 2 Comments 

This is what happens when a statistician has tracked all her training for the past 18 weeks – she graphs it!

Half-marathon training - what actually happened

In order to make this graph I had to convert cross training activities to mile equivalents which were roughly what level of training I thought each ultimate game, weight training session, swim etc was equal to.

I ran a total of 276.5 miles or 445 km in training (not including all the cross-training). That’s greater than the driving distance from Ottawa to Toronto (431 km according to google maps)!

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  1. Nicholas Cotton says:
    May 3, 2006 at 5:22 pm

    Wow. I knew you were training for this, but seeing it graphed is mind boggeling. I think I could do the same of course, except my graph’s X axis would be years. ;)

    P.S. Do you have the graph in metric?

  2. Cecilia says:
    May 3, 2006 at 10:10 pm

    OK you do NOT want to know how much time I spent working on this but I’ve replaced the graph and added a second y axis for kilometers. So it’s now both imperial and metric friendly.