Athlete's foot and its treatment

Today we will be looking at data about a health issue that affects many athletes: athlete’s foot. It’s not a very glamorous subject but it’s still interesting, as fungi are warrior eukaryotes that survive everywhere. Athlete’s foot is generally a fungal infection on the feet referred to as “tinea pedis” but can be something else that causes inflammation on the foot, however the definitions vary according to who you talk to… I am going to stick to the more accepted definition which is the fungal infection. [Read More]

Running races and waste

I am tackling a new topic today, which is waste generated during races. I’ll tell you why this is coming up now. I started the racing season with a road 10km called Asparun which was a relatively small race, 354 runners on the 10k plus probably as many on the 5k, which is more people than I usually see at my small local races, and I saw so many people just throwing their water goblets not IN the trash but sometimes 500 meters away, and it shocked me. [Read More]

Favorite trail race: Tencin 15km analysis

I am continuing my journey to learn awk and I finally managed to process (almost) an entire file today so let’s analyse the 2018 Tencin trail race. It was my first trail race of the season, and it kicks off the “challenge intercommunal du grésivaudan”, which is a set of 11 races in this region called the Grésivaudan which is a valley in between the two mountains of Belledonne and Chartreuse in the Alps. [Read More]

My first half marathon and its data analysis

A me-centered data analysis today where I will share my experience running my first half marathon and the race data. I’ve only been running regularly for a year, and I’d been dreaming about this day since I started. It was still kind of a dream for the longest time, something that I wanted but was still only a concept until the day arrived and I realized: “I’m running a half marathon today. [Read More]

Biathlon data analysis

This week I’m at a metabarcoding school in Norway, so it gets dark very early and I have time for another post. In honor of the 2018 Winter Olympics finally kicking off, I asked a friend of mine who loves sports what data he would be interested in seeing in the sports that are in the winter Olympics and he answered “biathlon.” I found a website that collects lots of data on the sport called biathlonresults. [Read More]