Running has become an increasingly larger part of my life over the past five years. I first tried it as a cardio replacement for swimming when I no longer had access to a pool or swim club to train with*, but I really started to enjoy the sport once I began running to explore places and to spend time with friends. Below is a small effort to visualize my relationship with running through the numbers.

*A perfect storm of UW’s gym renovations, the Covid-19 pandemic, and my undergraduate years lining up perfectly.

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Inspired in part by GitHub and an old Wait But Why blog post that I recall from time to time, here’s the last five years of my running history. You can tell that 2024 was my biggest year of running yet, I took some time off at the end of 2023 when I was injured, and I switched my long run day from Saturday (2022) to Sunday (2024). I’ll keep updating this periodically as I keep running and I’m excited to see how 2025 stacks up!

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And here’s the cumulative mileage by year: