[Archelaos]

The cumulative distance of running since 1 January of each year is not particularly meaningful. Instead, the cumulative distance in the previous 365 days for each day would be a better metric. In such a diagram it would be easier to spot in which periods the performance is above or below avarge (or any other benchmark).

[kkleindev]

I agree that what you suggest is more useful in many scenarios, particularly when one care about _monitoring_ of performance.

Unlike the rest of the notifications, my ambition with this cumulative distance plot was rather to intervene by cheering than to observe by analyzing. Put differently, I tried to gamify the yearly distance - as if I was racing against last year's version of myself. I'm not advocating for this, I just liked the idea at some point.