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I wanted to run a marathon at least once in my life, then I chose to do the Marathon de Metz.
I began my preparation program 3 months before the race. I started running regularly the first week of July. Mostly small distances on weekdays and longest ones during the weekend. I wasn’t strict at the beginning, during the month of July but, then I my training became more regular.
From my daily analysis I can say that I prefer to run mostly on Tuesday and that I barely run on Fridays. Saturdays runs are the longest ones, with an average of 20.4 km. Regarding speed, I run slower on Saturdays, because distance are longer.
It is nice to see the weekly progress, running 22 kilometres at the beginning of July and reaching 46 kilometres on September. In average, I train 3 times a week.
There is also an monthly progress, being September my best month with 164 km and 14 training sessions. Almost half of the month.
It is possible to estimate the elapsed the time that I would spend to cover the 42.195 km of the marathon. I applied a simple linear regression using the cover distance and the climbed altitude.
The predicted time is 3.99 hours with an average speed of 10.56 km/h. One may see that for my training, the cover distance is more important than the climb altitude when predicting the elapsed time.
from sklearn import linear_model
# Use distance and climb height
X_train = recent_frame[['Kilometers','Climb']].values
y_train = recent_frame['Time']
# Test with the marathon 42.195 km and 400 m climb
X_test = np.array([42.195, 400]).reshape(1,-1)
# Use linear regression
regr = linear_model.LinearRegression()
regr.fit(X_train, y_train)
y_pred = regr.predict(X_test)
print('Distance: {} Km, Speed: {} Km/h, Time: {} hours \n'.format(X_test[0][0], X_test[0][0]/float(y_pred[0]/60), y_pred[0]/60))
>>> Distance: 42.195 Km, Speed: 10.56 Km/h, Time: 3.99 hours
My average speed varies depending on the number of kilometres that I run. For long distances, the average was near 11.2 km/hour. Meanwhile, for shorter distances I was able to reach 12.7 km/hours during 8 kilometres.
The python code used to explore the data can be found inside this python notebook.
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