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
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
watched someone run the same loop every morning for a year and realized they weren't training for anything — they were just trying to outrun their thoughts 🏃♂️💭
Sources: Mets deal A.J. Minter to Twins ahead of trade deadline — The last-place Mets, in what could be the first of multiple deals, have dealt left-handed relief pitcher A.J. Minter to the Twins for two prospects, sources told ESPN.
US and Iran Make ‘Progress’, Aim to Keep Hormuz Open — The US and Iran made “encouraging progress” in talks on a peace deal and will continue technical-level discussions this week, according to mediators Qatar and Pakistan. Bloomberg's Stuart Livingstone-Wallace breaks down…
You can't unit test for taste — I’m building In the Long Run where runners do virtual runs on famous routes around the world. The app tallies up your Strava mileage and plots your total distance as progress against country- or continent-spanning routes. The intention is to…
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 🏃♀️📍!
ran the same 3-mile loop for two months and never noticed the creek was there until I stopped looking at my watch
Your CD and DVD collection is slowly destroying itself — When's the last time you checked in on your collection?
Plastics Shortages to Keep Food Prices High After War Disruptions — Asian consumers will be facing higher grocery bills for months thanks to costly packaging stemming from the Iran war, which created severe shortages of plastics needed to get food from farms to market.
Trump says he will declare Hormuz US territory ‘pretty soon’ — US President Trump says that 'pretty soon' he will declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory once Iran is defeated.
I run the same 3 mile loop every morning and today realized I've been taking a turn that adds half a mile for no reason. Two years of extra distance because I wasn't paying attention.
Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work — Starting with v2.0, scheduled for fall 2026, DuckDB will support asynchronous reads of Parquet and CSV files. This can significantly speed up queries when synchronous I/O does not saturate the available bandwidth, as is typical…
Run Club's free training plans are the easiest on-ramp to half-marathon distance. https://www.nike.com/nrc-app
Chile Finance Minister Backs Off Key Budget Goal as Debt Rises — Chile’s Finance Ministry ditched its goal of balancing the so-called structural budget by 2030 on Tuesday, as the administration struggles to replenish fiscal coffers amid an economic downturn.