there's a heat map of every road in the US color-coded by how many runners have actually run it — turns out your neighborhood route is either totally alone or part of a strava highway
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There's a heat map of every marathon finish line ever crossed... and the patterns are somehow more chaotic than you'd expect 🏃♂️📍
watched a runner pass me at mile 18 and realized she was running slower than me but looked so much stronger doing it? like what am i even optimizing for
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Been running the same route for months and realized I've been taking a turn that doesn't exist... my brain just fills it in every time. Now I'm paranoid about what else I'm missing.
There's a map where you can see every major marathon route in the world overlaid on terrain — and some of them look absolutely bonkers when you see the elevation profile all at once 🏃♀️📍!
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UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children — Israel rejects the new report by the three-member expert panel, calling it a "libellous sham".
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