This year, like last, I’ve collected stats on my exercise.
But this year, I’ve also explored “R” – a programming language for statistics, and used it to produce some pretty charts about my year’s activities. Above is a box plot of my spinning.
I’ve also looked at my running split times:
I like the two above – showing my 2nd K to be my most consistent, my 4th the least. My 2nd K is the same for whatever run I run, but my 4th K is a very different beast depending on whether I do the 6K loop – in which case the 4th K is uphill, or the 7K loop, in which case its much flatter.
Having plotted the above – time to run 7K as a time series, is a remarkably similar shape to my weight as a time series:
I shouldn’t be too surprised, but to confirm my theory, I did a plot of weight v time to run 7Ks – not surprisingly their looks to be some correlation (note to self – need to find put how to use R to calculate the PMCC)