Does anyone know of open data sets about running behaviour/running activity? I'd love to find somewhere there are histories for individual runners, but even data about large numbers of runners (distance, pace, location, you name it) would be interesting. I would prefer the data to be about amateurs runners if that is possible. I haven't found anything yet, but I'm not an expert in this field
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1Could you please post your own self-answer with the Endomondo tricks you have found? That would be useful for future readers. Thanks!– Nicolas RaoulMay 25, 2015 at 8:51
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Indeed, sharing is caring– GerardOct 18, 2016 at 11:10
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@sunny, I did try the nikita script on Ruby and try to replicate the script in R, but did not manage to download a thing. Could you please advice in how you did it? thanks in advance.– thundermilsApr 4, 2017 at 5:41
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ARRS - the Association of Road Runner Statisticians seems like the best place for you to start; there's a lot of data that sounds to me to be exactly what you want.
https://arrs.run/
IAAF, the international association of athletics federations has some interesting data too. here's one example for road running marathon records for senior men outdoor:
http://www.iaaf.org/records/by-discipline/road-running/marathon/outdoor/men
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ARRS seems wonderful! It "focuses on elite distance running at distances 3000m and longer". IAAF is about about world (and per-continent) records. May 19, 2015 at 2:50
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"the ARRS database which has more than 900,000 performances from more than 160,000 races by more than 35,000 elite distance runners world-wide" May 19, 2015 at 2:51
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@albert Thanks a lot for these suggestions. I am more looking for information about amateur runners, which I should have specified in my data request. I know there was an Endomondo data set that was (accidentally?) available, but I don't think it's still available and I don't think it was ever purposely available (only know of its existence from this blog post: barsukov.net/programming/2014/07/26/endomondo-code)– sunnyMay 19, 2015 at 14:51
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1@albert thanks for the update! I also got more instructions on accessing public endomondo profiles like this: endomondo.com/workouts + 9 digits. Note that not all combos work. Also it seems only possible to extract from the json in the HTML source code 1 route. I tried loading other routes, but it seems like it's done with an ajax-style query that shows nothing in the source code. Any ideas folks?– sunnyMay 19, 2015 at 20:23
OSM hosts GPS traces for various activities. If you find a couple of frequent uploaders, you can then get a history. This would be more likely for jogging, rather than timed races.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces
and for example these tags (WATCH OUT: tags are case sensitive)
https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces?tag=Jog
https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/tag/Run
https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/tag/run
Bulk GPS traces are here: https://planet.openstreetmap.org/gps/
and more info: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/61910/downloading-gpx-traces-over-a-specific-area