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Running => Running => Topic started by: Ice Cream on October 24, 2014, 08:25:00 AM

Title: How do you all feel about age-graded calculators?
Post by: Ice Cream on October 24, 2014, 08:25:00 AM
I question how fast I should have been able to run, as predicted by these.
Title: Re: How do you all feel about age-graded calculators?
Post by: Richard21142 on October 24, 2014, 09:13:56 AM
Age-grade calculators are something that makes you feel better about being old.
Title: Re: How do you all feel about age-graded calculators?
Post by: rayman54 on October 24, 2014, 02:34:40 PM
I find that they work quite well.  I've been doing a particular race for the past 25 years.  I plotted my age graded time vs. year and the result is a horizontal curve.  They were years where I had bad races and those data points are noticeably offset from the horizontal curve
Title: Re: How do you all feel about age-graded calculators?
Post by: Arrojo on October 24, 2014, 02:40:22 PM
They are quite accurate for me, because I have been racing competetively for 40 years, I know how fast I used to be.  An age-graded PR is a beautiful thing.
Title: Re: How do you all feel about age-graded calculators?
Post by: iwuzwilson on October 24, 2014, 03:44:19 PM
They are quite useful for comparing performance within an age class, but there is a bias, softening of the curve, as we get older. Particularly seen in older women. Libby James of Colorado recently scored a 106%. That's effectively impossible but it's what the calculator says.
Title: Re: How do you all feel about age-graded calculators?
Post by: Ice Cream on October 27, 2014, 07:42:24 PM
They are quite useful for comparing performance within an age class, but there is a bias, softening of the curve, as we get older. Particularly seen in older women. Libby James of Colorado recently scored a 106%. That's effectively impossible but it's what the calculator says.

Don't know how this percentage works.  Mine said I would have done a 3:18 marathon equivalent...