Spot the trend

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:39:32 -0800

Running is a sport that you get while the getting is good, and it has not been good for me most of this year. Holidays, bad weather, and, for the past few weeks, an achy left knee means I’ve been running way less.

I’ve been riding our indoor bike a lot as a replacement, but it’s just not the same, especially when it comes to calorie burn. I track my weight & calorie intake using Macrofactor (mentioned here), with the magic of math and good nutrition science it makes a fairly precise guess of how many calories you burn a day, using nothing but your scale weight and the number of calories you eat.

See if you can spot when I started running every day, and when I stopped. It’s amazing how quickly it picked up the trend, and how drastic the drop was. (There’s about a 500 calorie spread between the top and the bottom of this graph.)

MeteoPace

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:38:45 -0800

I came across MeteoPace (via) which is something I’ve wanted for a while.

When you are running, wind, heat, humidity, and elevation all can affect your ability to hold a pace. This is especially critical when you’re racing, as a few seconds difference in pace can be the difference in finishing or not. There are various rules-of-thumb and calculators people use, but those can be unwieldy and error-prone. This app looks to make this much easier.

I’ve synced my Strava runs to this, and spot-checking some recent hilly runs seemed to match the effort I was putting in. This is going to be very useful for that summer running.

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Spot the trend

MeteoPace