Continuing the 31 Dec 2001 - 9 Jun 2002 log of ^z weekly (weakly!) miles in JogLogFog (9 Jun 2002), the scorecard for 10 Jun - 6 Oct 2002 in raw form looks like:

... a forest of digits, of minimal interest except perhaps to the person who pounded the pavement for those distances. But put into a graphical form it becomes a bit more comprehensible. Here are the ^z daily runs (inverted red triangles) along with weekly totals shown as 7-day (green) and 30-day (blue) lagged moving averages.

There are some interesting phenomena visible, including troughs in May (muscle & joint soreness, perhaps from running too far too soon) and July-August (sultry weather & bad air quality), as well as a steady trend upward in peak distance covered during jaunts.

But much more can and should be done to process these data, remove "noise", and analyze "signal". This is a splendid example of a filtering problem, for which science has developed powerful technologies over the years. But pending that discussion, a fistful of memories from ^z runs of the past four months:

• 12 June — early morning pair of deer seen in Ray's Meadow and another doe in Kensington (average is more like 1 deer/week), plus a rabbit by the trail
• 16-19 June & 3 August — cool lopes along country lanes in New Hampshire near Wolfeboro, with Robert Frosty stone walls, a curious deer, a fogged-mirror lake, an old cemetery, and pine cones pressed like trilobite skeletons into the dirt road
• 10 July — an orange & black hand-sized turtle creeping across the forest trail
• 20 July — Rockville Twilight 8k race ... humid, hot, huge crowds (see also NeedForSpeed (10 Aug 2002))
• 24 & 26 July, 24 & 28 August, 1 & 26 September — damp trots through heavy rainstorms that cooled the head and soaked the socks
• 14 & 29 September — ^z 20-mile ventures (see ScoreOfMiles (15 Sep 2002) and MarathonCoordinates (3 Oct 2002))

TopicRunning - TopicPersonalHistory - 2002-10-11

(correlates: Fading Traces, Running2006Analysis, SeeingThought, ...)