Field notes
Notes from the workbench.
Short essays on the signals Plover watches and the thinking behind them. The full reference lives in the methods paper; these are the stories around it.
July 2026
What the notebook noticed
Plover started as one runner and a folder of .fit files. The plot that convinced me to build it wasn't a mileage chart — it was a stride quietly shrinking at the same easy pace.
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Every number carries its window
Why every Plover finding ships with the comparison behind it — and why the app would rather say “not enough comparable runs yet” than invent a baseline.
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