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The New York City Marathon, visualized
Mile splits from 58,721 finishers of the 2025 New York City Marathon show how the race unfolded, from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to Central Park.


To Create a New Category, Name the New Game.
Brilliant strategic narratives evangelize a new discipline for winning—while positioning the old one as obsolete. In the 1990s, I ran the New York City Marathon three times.
Nearly a quarter of NYC’s early voters were new Democratic primary participants
A total of 385,184 New Yorkers voted early in this primary election, compared to 191,197 in 2021.

New York City cast vote record: An initial analysis of the 2025 Democratic mayoral primary - FairVote
This post explores the New York City cast vote record released July 24 – showing how voters used their rankings in the primary.

Smashrun - Stats for runners
Smashrun is a data visualization platform that helps runners track their training consistency, volume, and effort distribution. Sign up is quick and easy and it's free!

Why a majority of runners, even among international elites, are heel strikers by Blaise Dubois
Below is the text of a newsletter that my friend Blaise Dubois, a physiotherapist from Quebec City, just sent out regarding the topic of heel striking. If you don’t subscribe to Blaise’s newsletter, I recommend that you do – he sends out a lot of interesting information, and posts like this one are great for sparking debate and discussion – you can subscribe here.

What Ethiopian running says about the limits of human ability | Aeon Essays
One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons

Historical Voter Turnout | NYC Open Data
Demographics of Queens
The demographics of Queens, the second-most populous borough in New York City, are highly diverse. No racial or ethnic group holds a majority in the borough.
A Million Doors to a Million Votes: NYC-DSA’s Plan for a Mamdani Mandate - Democratic Left
Victory in the Democratic primary has transformed what’s possible for socialists in New York City. A 10,500 member-strong NYC-DSA's road to November is paved with opportunities to expand our base and muster the forces needed to implement his agenda.

Run An Empire
The multiplayer game for runners. Compete with others to capture territory in the real world.