2026 Boston Marathon Cutoff Time Tracker

The Tableau dashboard below collects data from marathons, tracks the number of finishers who meet their Boston qualifying time, and projects an estimated cutoff time for the 2026 Boston Marathon. It will be updated regularly throughout the year, through the registration period in September 2025. For more details on the data, the assumptions, and other … Read more

Critique of a Research Study of Strava Data and What It Means for Marathon Runners

Towards the end of last year, a group of researchers published a study based on a large sample of runner’s Strava data: The Training Intensity Distribution of Marathon Runners Across Performance Levels by Daniel Muniz-Pumares et al. I saw this article shared in a couple subreddits, including r/Marathon_Training. I’m pretty sure there was a thread … Read more

Which Marathon Training Plan Is Most Popular With Advanced Runners?

Feature Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash If you were to ask which marathon training plan is the most popular, I’d probably say Hal Higdon. He is frequently recommended on r/Running and r/Marathon_Training to new runners, and when you look at the Google Search data people look for information on him much more frequently than … Read more

Tokyo Marathon Data Follow Up: A Closer Look at the Field

Feature image by nakashi on Wikimedia Commons – CC BY-SA 2.0 Last week, I published an analysis of the 2025 Tokyo Marathon and shared some insights from the data. I collected the preliminary results, including some demographic data and finish times, and came to three general conclusions: This analysis prompted a decent amount of discussion, … Read more