Athletics
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: When VPIM 2026's 'Record' Is Really Just a Course Record
Kaçkar by UTMB: 2,000 Runners, 60 Countries and the Tourism Invoice Behind the Start Line
Jemma Reekie and the European Road Mile Record: When Recovery Data Speaks
The Empty Report: Data Discipline and the Limits of the Sports Analyst
VPIM 2026: Pham Thi Hong Le Sets 2:47:52 Course Record, Huynh Anh Khoi Wins Men's Race in 2:31:49At 1:30 a.m., the 42.195 km group left the start line in central Hanoi. The...
VPIM 2026: The 2:47:52 Course Record and the Twenty-Minute Gap at the ApexAt 01:30, the corral for the 42.195km opens. The first wave crosses the line ...
VPIM 2026: A 2:47:52 Course Record and the Twenty-Minute Gap to Olympic StandardsAt 1:30 in the morning, on the northern ramp of Long Bien Bridge, the lead...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: When VPIM 2026's 'Record' Is Really Just a Course RecordThere is a moment on a late-December morning in Hanoi that I had waited years...
Twelve Days, Five Sports, Thirteen Regions: The Empty Data File of the Ormenio–Gavdos TraverseThe project's live page streams heart rate by the second, streams core...
Kaçkar by UTMB: 2,000 Runners, 60 Countries and the Tourism Invoice Behind the Start LineThe fog on the Ayder plateau was so thick that spectators standing twenty...
Three Women and a Leaderboard Without Names: What Really Happened at the Rasselbock Backyard UltraAt Hardwick Estate in Derbyshire, 141 people started. When the final loop...
Carrying a Wife 200 Metres in Can Gio: 1.1 m/s and the Audit of a Mass-Participation RaceThree minutes, a little more, for 200 metres. In Can Gio, a 34-year-old man...
2,000 Athletes, 60 Countries and an Empty Column in the Spreadsheet at Kaçkar by UTMBI opened the spreadsheet at 5 a.m. Nagoya time, exactly when the starting gun...
LSR Colombo Marathon 2026: 1,000 Entries, 33 Nations and the Gap After Seven Lost YearsIn October 2026, the LSR Colombo Marathon runs its 20th edition. The full...
Second Kaçkar by UTMB: 2,000 Runners, 60 Countries and a Performance-Data VoidOne Whistle at Ayder That morning, on the Ayder plateau in Rize, Turkey's...
Chicago and Four Decades of Records: The Sediment Beneath the World's Flattest Marathon CourseAt kilometre 30, on the Lakefront Trail stretch, I reset my elevation watch f...
Jemma Reekie and the European Road Mile Record: When Recovery Data SpeaksIn May 2026, at a race in Poland, Jemma Reekie fell. For spectators, it was a...
Records Without Wind: The Craft of Data Verification in AthleticsOn June 3, an 11-second clip appeared on a social media account with 40,000...
The Empty Report: Data Discipline and the Limits of the Sports AnalystI opened the analysis file at two in the morning, Osaka time, after the race...
Kipchoge Wins Melbourne Marathon After Three Years: 2:09:10 and a Record Written Into the CourseMelbourne Cricket Ground, the morning of October 11, 2026. When Eliud Kipchog...
VPIM 2026: The 2:47:52 Course Record and the Twenty-Minute Gap at the ApexAt 01:30, the corral for the 42.195km opens. The first wave crosses the line ...
VPIM 2026: A 2:47:52 Course Record and the Twenty-Minute Gap to Olympic StandardsAt 1:30 in the morning, on the northern ramp of Long Bien Bridge, the lead...
2:47:52 and 2:31:49: When VPIM 2026's 'Record' Is Really Just a Course RecordThere is a moment on a late-December morning in Hanoi that I had waited years...
Twelve Days, Five Sports, Thirteen Regions: The Empty Data File of the Ormenio–Gavdos TraverseThe project's live page streams heart rate by the second, streams core...
Kaçkar by UTMB: 2,000 Runners, 60 Countries and the Tourism Invoice Behind the Start LineThe fog on the Ayder plateau was so thick that spectators standing twenty...
Three Women and a Leaderboard Without Names: What Really Happened at the Rasselbock Backyard UltraAt Hardwick Estate in Derbyshire, 141 people started. When the final loop...
Carrying a Wife 200 Metres in Can Gio: 1.1 m/s and the Audit of a Mass-Participation RaceThree minutes, a little more, for 200 metres. In Can Gio, a 34-year-old man...
2,000 Athletes, 60 Countries and an Empty Column in the Spreadsheet at Kaçkar by UTMBI opened the spreadsheet at 5 a.m. Nagoya time, exactly when the starting gun...
LSR Colombo Marathon 2026: 1,000 Entries, 33 Nations and the Gap After Seven Lost YearsIn October 2026, the LSR Colombo Marathon runs its 20th edition. The full...
Second Kaçkar by UTMB: 2,000 Runners, 60 Countries and a Performance-Data VoidOne Whistle at Ayder That morning, on the Ayder plateau in Rize, Turkey's...
Chicago and Four Decades of Records: The Sediment Beneath the World's Flattest Marathon CourseAt kilometre 30, on the Lakefront Trail stretch, I reset my elevation watch f...
Jemma Reekie and the European Road Mile Record: When Recovery Data SpeaksIn May 2026, at a race in Poland, Jemma Reekie fell. For spectators, it was a...
Records Without Wind: The Craft of Data Verification in AthleticsOn June 3, an 11-second clip appeared on a social media account with 40,000...
The Empty Report: Data Discipline and the Limits of the Sports AnalystI opened the analysis file at two in the morning, Osaka time, after the race...
Kipchoge Wins Melbourne Marathon After Three Years: 2:09:10 and a Record Written Into the CourseMelbourne Cricket Ground, the morning of October 11, 2026. When Eliud Kipchog...