John O'Regan is an Irish international ultra runner and host of the popular No Finish Line podcast on Spotify.
The most recent edition of the podcast is titled 'Running with Data' and is 48-mins long. In the podcast, John has a discussion with Prof. Barry Smyth who has looked at the stats for 4-million records from 150,000 individuals on the Strava platform.
Barry has published papers about the different types of taper for the marathon and the best strategy for pacing a marathon. He also found that women were a lot better at pacing than men!
The conventional wisdom is that a positive split results in the best time for a marathon but Barry suggests that may not be the case for most runners and introduces the concept of the 'controlled fade'.
With the Dublin marathon coming up on Sunday, I'm sure a lot of people will find it of interest.
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