Running free

Hi there 👋, my name is Michael, I'm a professional software engineer and an amateur friet-athlete who enjoys running 🏃‍♂️, cycling 🚴‍♂️, swimming 🏊‍♂️ and recreational french-fries 🍟. This page is my place to aggregate mileage, progress and race-results. For all things "social" around sport, I use Strava.

The full mileage on bikes is here. As I'm somewhat proud of my progress in running since I started in 2017, I created a dedicated achievements page for that. Sometimes I take pictures durin my trips: the gallery link above will take you to individual pages containing selected pictures.

I keep track of the cycling gear manually each month, hence these stats are always up-to-date. Since 2009-01-01 I rode 122580km in total. That is an average of 610km per month. The worst month was December 2011 with 106km, the best month was July 2022 with 1670km.

Garmin Connect is my main hub for tracking all activities and I use Garmin Babel to massage Garmins GDPR export into a usable database. The last update of this database was on 2025-06-30 and the overall values in 2025 are: 3876km cycling, 736km running, 403km walking and 77km swimming. My longest streak of getting at least 30 minutes of activity within a single activity each day began on 2023-11-17 and lasts already 591 days. My daily activity streak looks like this:

Since 2025-10-31 I am at Garmin level 7 with 1768 points:

In 2025 I usually went to bed at 23:22 and slept for about 6 hours 😴.

Please have a look at the history page for older versions of this site and the content that has been originally created for arc42 by example. The Spring Boot based version of this site ran from 2014 until late 2023. It has been replaced by a lightweight Python application, built on the following technologies and frameworks:

   

The sources for the site-generator and its database schema are here: michael-simons/sport.