How Does Running Strain Affect Heart Rate Variability?
Track and field is a sport of many numbers – distances, splits, personal bests, Olympic standards and world records. However, just as important are the health metrics that can help guide a runner to become their (actual) personal best. Heart rate variability (HRV), the measure of the variation in time between heartbeats as measured in milliseconds, is one of those metrics that can be a useful indicator of stress and recovery. As a result, I was interested in exploring how different quantities of four metrics of running strain (daily mileage, daily elevation gain, consecutive days and weekly mileage) affected HRV so I built data models in dbt using my own Strava and HRV data and visualized the results in a Sigma dashboard.
10,000 Miles
Ten thousand miles.
I’ve always loved running but this distance always somehow seemed impossible to actually reach. I never felt this more strongly than when I was a student at NYU in the fall of 2014 and battled a respiratory infection which subsequently developed into a rare neurological condition called achalasia that led to years of dysphagia.
Dermot Kennedy Interview
I graduated from NYU with a degree in music and hosted a radio show on WNYU for all four years where I interviewed some of the best new songwriters, specifically from the U.K. and Ireland.
I sat down with Dermot Kennedy at WNYU in June 2017 prior to his debut New York show for his first American radio interview. Since then, he has amassed nearly 4 billion total streams on Spotify, headlined Madison Square Garden and released two studio albums (Without Fear and Sonder) that have garnered acclaim from the likes of Taylor Swift, Niall Horan and Hozier.