Ok, so seems like hours you've spent training is a pretty good predictor for your marathon finish time!
Those who spend more time training are faster and have a smaller finish time for the marathon.
Jerry was more dedicated to the training than Tom, so he finished earlier.

But what about the other variables?
Do height and body mass index tell you something about the time people need to finish the marathon?
You still have more data to look at!

Click on the tabs 'Height' and 'BMI' to look at the other variables.


When you use the participants height to estimate their marathon finishing time, the model looks like this:

Marathon Finish Time = Intercept + effect of height * height + Error

which translates to:

$$Y_{i} = \beta_{0.2} + \beta_{1.2} * x_{2i} + e_{i}$$

Oh no! This doesn't look good! Your estimate for Jerry is worse again! And the errors seem to also be bigger.
Let's look if BMI is a better estimator for marathon finishing time!

Click on the next tab on top called 'BMI'


When you use the participants BMI to estimate their marathon finishing time, the model looks like this:

Marathon Finish Time = Intercept + effect of BMI * BMI + Error

which translates to:

$$Y_{i} = \beta_{0.3} + \beta_{1.3} * x_{3i} + e_{i}$$
When you use the BMI for predicting the marathon performance, your estimation for Jerry is better than in the Null Model! However, the estimation for Tom got a little worse...

You should probably stick to using the hours put into training for your model!