What?

This year, as in the previous two, I’ve been running fairly regularly. I thought it might be interesting to plot my runs across the year. In particular, I had two targets that I’d set out at the start of the year:

1. To run over 100km every month
2. To run a half-marathon every month

I managed to hit the first (despite two bouts of COVID!) but unfortunately missed the second by a single month - I’d left my half for June until the last weekend in the month and woke up on the Sunday morning feeling rotten, so only managed a shorter run. 11/12 isn’t too bad though!

How?

calplot really does a lot of the heavy lifting here, especially when coupled with Strava’s APIs allowing for pretty straightforward data access.

The one additional thing I tried to do was highlight the half marathon runs - this needed some slightly fiddly work, adding a scatter plot on top of the calendar. Once I understood that it just uses week numbers as the x-coordinate and day numbers as the y-coordinate (with a little shifting), it was fairly simple.

Libraries / Resources

• pandas with requests for getting and processing the data
• calplot / matplotlib / seaborn for plotting
• My usual plot_styles for the basic plot styling
• Geomanist for the title font

Data Sources

All the data is taken directly from the Strava APIs!

Code

Find it on Github