Map of Haile Gebrselassie's World Record at the 2008 real Berlin Marathon

Sean Hartnett, on assignment for Track and Field News, has created a fantastic map detailing Haile Gebrselassie's world record performance of 2:03:59 at the 2008 real Berlin Marathon. The map is an excellent visual display of text, graphics and data. The table on the left shows Haile's splits through all 42 kilometers of the race and how the splits compare to Haile's 2007 race on the same course, which was also a world record. The column on the right is the story of the race, complementing the data. The colorful graphic in the center shows the course route with each kilometer color-coded based on split time. The darker colors indicate a faster split, so you can easily see that Haile ran fastest at the beginnning of the race to establish a world-record pace early, as well as at the end of the race, when he knew the world record was within reach. The photos add an exciting effect to the whole map, making it more than just a story and a table of data. Hartnett also prominently displays a photo of Gebrselassie's world-record smile at the end of what Gebrselassie described as "a perfect day."