Daily Relay | On 19, Feb 2016

To the joy of running data enthusiasts everywhere, USATF released mile-by-mile split times for all 364 athletes who started the 2016 Olympic Marathon Trials in Los Angeles. To save you the trouble of pouring over the the thousands of splits, statistician Joe Guinness has created an interactive data visualization to display each runner’s cumulative pace throughout the race. Type in the names of individual athletes or click on the plot to highlight individual curves. Check it out below, or go directly to it here: http://teaching.stat.ncsu.edu/shiny/jsguinne/marathontrials2016/