How a week turns into a planet
Every session you record becomes a place on the planet. The week as a whole sets its sea, its sky and what kind of world it is. Each clip below is the app itself with a few labels on top.
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Every session becomes a place
Each day gets its own slice of the planet, Monday to Sunday around the middle. Runs raise ridges and rides carve valleys. A swim digs a lagoon. Lifting stands up rock spires, one per set, and yoga plants a grove. A run with no route gets built from its effort instead: intervals step up a hill in terraces.
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A run raises a ridge
The route you ran becomes the line of the ridge, and a longer run draws a longer one. Here Saturday's 13.1 mile run lands on the planet and the ridge comes up under it.
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Climbing makes it taller
Same ridge, standing on top of it. With 200 feet of climbing it's a soft hill with trees on it. With 2,000 feet it's a bare rock peak.
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Sweat fills the sea
The sea is the week's sweat. This is the same week at 2.2, 4.3 and 8.6 liters, and the water comes up to meet it. The clouds get bigger too.
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Hours and effort pick the body
Most weeks come out as rocky planets. A small week, under 3½ hours, shrinks to a marble. Around 10 hours and up it swells into a gas giant. A long week spent indoors or in the cold becomes an ice giant. A hard week in the heat stays molten as a lava world. These are six of Ryan's weeks.
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Why Ryan's marathon week wears a crown
Ryan's marathon week came to 6.7 hours, with the marathon in it. A race week of 6 hours or more wears an aurora crown. The clip draws it as a plain rocky planet first, then the way the app picks it. His half marathon week was 5.6 hours, so it has no crown.
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A race puts a ring round it
A race gets a ring. Its bands follow the race kilometer by kilometer: its real splits where the watch kept them, the climbs of its course where it didn't. The wide gap is halfway, and the thin red line just outside is the finish. On the ground the course is painted red, with a monument where you finished. This is Ryan's half marathon week.
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The sky is the week's too
The sun takes its color from the hour you trained at. This week averaged 11 in the morning, so it's a pale yellow. Days with two sessions add a second sun. The longest run flies past as a comet, and lifting leaves a belt of rocks.
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And things live there
Land on it and the week has life. Yoga grows woods round a ring of stones, and herds graze by the runs. Lava worlds and marbles stay bare.
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Every week together is a galaxy
Put all the weeks together and you get a galaxy. Every week is a star, bigger for more hours, and each arm is a year from January at the core. The black hole in the middle grows in long blocks of high load.