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Oliver Fox
Founder of ontrack · doctor & researcher · runner
I founded ontrack. I trained as a doctor and now work mostly in research. I race, too: I've worn a GB vest at the European and World Cross Country Championships, came up through Cambridge University Hare and Hounds, and now turn out for Thames Hare and Hounds.
This is ontrack's lab. We use it to turn running data into something useful, and increasingly I use it to write about the sport and the science behind it.
Writing
- Britain's fastest tracksUsing every result on OpenTrack, we separate a track's genuine speed from the athletes who happen to race there. The venue matters most over distance, and the 10,000m shows exactly how the method can be fooled.
- Five million GPS pointsEvery GPS point my Garmin has recorded since 2014, drawn as the places I run, with a live view you can zoom all the way down to a single sample.