wiki_z: JogLogFog2

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:

M +	T +	W +	T +	F +	S +	S =	Total
4		9		6		5	24
11	5	5		4		10	35
	4		9		4	6	23
	5		7		9	6	27
		4	9		13		26
4						5	9
5	8	4		6	8		31
	4	4	5		8		21
		12	5			4	21
		7			4	5	16
		15			5	5	25
		13			4	10	27
	4		9			15	28
	4		8		20		32
8		8		8		8	32
	6		10			20	36
	3		7		6	4	20

... 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, ...)