Virtual Running Relays

By Tamela Maciel, May 2020

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West End Runners in Leicester challenge local clubs to a virtual running relay

During the lock-down, club runners are missing the buzz and companionship of races. But we can still compete virtually!

35 runners per club, 30 minute slots run from anywhere, how far in total can each club go? Most cummulative mileage wins.

This jupyter notebook digs into the stats of two recent races:

• 2 May: West End Runners (WER) vs Wigston Phoenix (WP)
• 9 May: West End Runners (WER) vs Wellingborough & District Athletic Club (WDAC)

Various statistical plots are created, such as this plot of total mileage difference throughout the day between WER and WDAC:

And this boxplot showing the variation of individual runner mileage between each club:

Gpxpy and Folium are used to create a heat map of routes, drawn from individual gpx files and coloured by club:

For full window map, click here

For more details and code, see the GitHub repository.