– Runs
Every point of light is one run, sized by how far it went: Strava until the watch arrived in October 2020, Garmin since. Scroll, and they regroup to tell what the miles looked like.
Mostly fives and sixes
Laid out by date and distance. The dense band is the weekday run, three to eight miles. Above it, a Saturday long run shows up most weeks, and every so often something much bigger.
Median run: – miles. The dashed line is the day the Garmin arrived.
By year
2021 kept most of it going at 1,334 miles, and 2023 matched it on count with 175 runs. After 2024 the piles get smaller.
Every bar is built from runs
Each month's mileage, stacked one run at a time. Spring through the end of 2020 is the high plateau: April, October, November and December all landed between 140 and 146 miles. Summer 2025 is where it went quiet, down to 13 miles by December.
Then September 2026: 70 miles, the best month in over a year.
Runs of 26 miles or more
The first two came in 2020 before the watch: the Conquer Covid-19 Marathon in June and a second one in August. Then a 50K that December, forty miles from a 4 a.m. start in September 2021, another 50K in Arizona, two June runs in Wasatch County, the St. George Marathon twice, and Boston.
Boston
The Garmin file starts where every Boston starts, in Hopkinton. 26.43 miles at 11:17 per mile on the watch.
Everything else fades to show how alone that dot sits.
Twice, the Goggins 4x4x48
Twelve four-mile runs, one every four hours, through two nights. Done in November 2020, two weeks after the watch arrived, and again in November 2023. Each row is one attempt on its own 48-hour clock.
Dawn, noon, or after work
Sorted by the hour each run started. Noon is the single biggest hour with 167 runs. Six and seven in the morning add up to 206, and 4 to 5 p.m. to 195. The blue dots out in the dark hours are 4x4x48 legs.
From home
Strava runs don't carry a place, so this one is the watch era only. The rest are spread across Utah County, Provo, Lehi, the Wasatch Back, Arizona, Maui, Baltimore and Hopkinton.
Latest run
The newest run, glowing at the outer edge. The fastest run over three miles is still July 24, 2020: 6.27 miles at 7:40 per mile. Plenty of room left on the chart.
Sources: Strava runs before Oct 22, 2020 and Garmin runs from then on, via Ops Deck (no overlap). Runs over 0.2 mi. Dates in Mountain Time.