I discovered running around 2010 (not coincidentally around when I discovered podcasts). Being a nerd and a collector, I remain in part motivated by the fact that every time I go running with a GPS watch on, I feel like I’m collecting shiny things. I primarily collected shiny things via mapmyrun.com, but I am among the many folks who have become frustrated that they make it so hard to export data, so I’ve moved to Strava.
But at the time I did that (2017), since MMR didn’t provide a bulk export feature, I wrote code to crawl my workouts at mapmyrun.com; from the output (.tcx files), I could import everything into Strava. Now I have my whole MapMyRun history in my Strava account.
And while I was doing it, I figured: why not make a shiny thing out of all those shiny things? So I generated this page of every workout I’ve done since 2010 that a few lines of code determined to be “interesting”, which is vaguely defined as “long”, “fast” (fast for me, not fast in an absolute sense), or “not in the Seattle area”. This table is generally sorted by my personal metric of “interestingness”.
The code is available on GitHub.
