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A runner in silhouette jogging along a park path at sunset

FirstFiveK

Credits

Data, photography and typeface credits for FirstFiveK.

Photo by McCarthy Beckan on Unsplash

Nine lanes, nine weeks. Solid chalk is running, dashes are walking, drawn to scale in minutes.

The people and projects that make FirstFiveK possible.

Data

Photographs

  • Photo by McCarthy Beckan on Unsplash — A runner in silhouette jogging along a park path at sunset
  • Photo by Andrei Castanha on Unsplash — A man jogging at an easy pace along a park path with a city skyline behind
  • Photo by Steven Lelham on Unsplash — Runners seen from above on a red track, their long shadows stretched across the lanes
  • Photo by H&CO on Unsplash — Dashed and solid white lines painted on a red running track
  • Photo by Tirza van Dijk on Unsplash — Close-up of a red running track with a white lane line and painted start marks
  • Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash — The long curve of a red running track with white lane lines
  • Photo by Isaac Wendland on Unsplash — A lone runner on an empty desert road in low sun
  • Photo by Greg Rosenke on Unsplash — A small group of people running away from the camera down a dirt road
  • Photo by Zoshua Colah on Unsplash — A woman runs on a waterfront path in the city in winter sun
  • Photo by Huckster on Unsplash — Two runners on a coastal park path, backlit by a low morning sun

Charts and illustrations

Charts on this site are rendered from the dataset itself. Illustrations are original or from open-licence icon sets.

Typefaces

Fonts in use: barlow condensed, barlow. All are released under the SIL Open Font License and are self-hosted; licence files ship with the site.

  • A runner in silhouette jogging along a park path at sunsetMcCarthy Beckan
  • A man jogging at an easy pace along a park path with a city skyline behindAndrei Castanha
  • Runners seen from above on a red track, their long shadows stretched across the lanesSteven Lelham
  • Dashed and solid white lines painted on a red running trackH&CO
  • Close-up of a red running track with a white lane line and painted start marksTirza van Dijk
  • The long curve of a red running track with white lane linesJoshua Hoehne
  • A lone runner on an empty desert road in low sunIsaac Wendland
  • A small group of people running away from the camera down a dirt roadGreg Rosenke
  • A woman runs on a waterfront path in the city in winter sunZoshua Colah
  • Two runners on a coastal park path, backlit by a low morning sunHuckster
FirstFiveK team

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Last checked · What changed: first edition; every figure recomputed from the published formulas · Corrections policy