Recommendations for marathon runners: on the application of recommender systems and machine learning to support recreational marathon runners

B Smyth, A Lawlor, J Berndsen, C Feely - User Modeling and User …, 2022 - Springer
Every year millions of people, from all walks of life, spend months training to run a traditional
marathon. For some it is about becoming fit enough to complete the gruelling 26.2 mile (42.2 …

Recommender systems: A healthy obsession

B Smyth - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
We propose endurance sports as a rich and novel domain for recommender systems and
machine learning research. As sports like marathon running, triathlons, and mountain biking …

Fit to run: Personalised recommendations for marathon training

J Berndsen, B Smyth, A Lawlor - … of the 14th ACM Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Training for the marathon is a complex problem. In order to run an optimal time, runners
must find the right workload for their current abilities and identify the correct balance …

Providing explainable race-time predictions and training plan recommendations to marathon runners

C Feely, B Caulfield, A Lawlor, B Smyth - Proceedings of the 14th ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Millions of people participate in marathon events every year, typically devoting at least 12-16
weeks to building their endurance and fitness so that they can safely complete these …

A novel recommender system for helping marathoners to achieve a new personal-best

B Smyth, P Cunningham - Proceedings of the eleventh ACM conference …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We describe a novel application for recommender systems--helping marathon runners to run
a new personal-best race-time--by predicting a challenging, but achievable target-time, and …

Mining marathon training data to generate useful user profiles

J Berndsen, B Smyth, A Lawlor - Machine Learning and Data Mining for …, 2020 - Springer
In this work we generate user profiles from the raw activity data of over 12000 marathon
runners. We demonstrate that these user profiles capture accurate representations of the …

Modelling the training practices of recreational marathon runners to make personalised training recommendations

C Feely, B Caulfield, A Lawlor, B Smyth - … of the 31st ACM Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
These days we have all become increasingly aware of the role that exercise plays in a
healthy lifestyle. Activities such as cycling, triathlons, and running have become popular …

[PDF][PDF] Running with Recommendation.

J Berndsen, A Lawlor, B Smyth - HealthRecSys@ RecSys, 2017 - ceur-ws.org
We examine the feasibility of a collaborative recommender system in the exercise domain
targeted specifically at runners. By using a large dataset of over 600000 runners' finish times …

Pace my race: recommendations for marathon running

J Berndsen, B Smyth, A Lawlor - … of the 13th ACM conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We propose marathon running as a novel domain for recommender systems and machine
learning. Using high-resolution marathon performance data from multiple marathon races …

[PDF][PDF] Keeping People Active and Healthy at Home Using a Reinforcement Learning-based Fitness Recommendation Framework.

EZ Tragos, D O'Reilly-Morgan, J Geraci, B Shi, B Smyth… - IJCAI, 2023 - ijcai.org
Recent years have seen a rise in smartphone applications promoting health and well being.
We argue that there is a large and unexplored ground within the field of recommender …