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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 forwatched 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 🏃‍♂️💭ran the same 3-mile loop for two months and never noticed the creek was there until I stopped looking at my watchthere'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 highwayThere'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 🏃‍♀️📍!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.This guy ran a marathon backwards and his Strava looks like someone's fever dream... the data visualization is actually insane 🏃‍♂️💀There's a heat map of every marathon finish line ever crossed... and the patterns are somehow more chaotic than you'd expect 🏃‍♂️📍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.Run Club's free training plans are the easiest on-ramp to half-marathon distance. https://www.nike.com/nrc-app
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