Re: Best 3 distance WAVA Age Grade

Diego Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:16 am

Let's see.

Marathon: 74.2%
Half Marathon 72.3% Ugly, gotta improve that one
10K 73.7% on no taper, 2 days after a 20 miler
5k 76.8% in an unofficial track workout 10 days before the marathon above

If you run 90 miles per week and throw in some speedwork, your 5k and 10k times will rock!!!

John Kilpatrick Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:31 am

Mike MacLellan wrote:I think you're giving me a boost I don't deserve there, John. Isn't it 60-70 = local, 70-80 = regional? I'm 66. But I'll take 70

Hey now, none of this sandbagging bull$h!t here Razz

Mark B wrote:At this point, Mike, I'll happily benefit from a little grade inflation.

I think you have plenty of local class - not to mention you are a world-renown Nike shoe tester!

rhondda h Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:38 am

BEST: 5k 67.02 Half 66.67 Full 67.52

Weird. I was proudest of my half time but looking at the % it's not my best performance. The masters champ plaque I got must have poofed up my ego more than running back of the pack at Boston!

WORST: 10K, 58.12 I only ran one my first year of running so not to bad.

Julie Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:19 am

John Kilpatrick wrote:
Kenny B. wrote:
John Kilpatrick wrote:5K (last year) = 64.38
10K (this year) = 70.79
15K (last year) = 65.47
Marathon (this year) = 61.01

This is a pretty impressive group!

class person
~local class Kenny, Digby, Julie, Mark, John K
~regional class jd, Mike, Jerry, Chris, Jim, KB, Gobbles
~National class Dave-O, Matt
~World class Dave B

Is local class seems so well local. How local like one zip code or county. Lol

It is better to have local class than no class!!!

Hey I'll take what I can get. I got 2nd place in my age group in a marathon and 3rd place another time (Sioux City, IA and Pensacola, FL, respectively). My strategy is to stick with it until I'm in my 80s.

Nick Morris Fri Jul 08, 2011 3:20 pm

5k = 70.76
8k = 63.69
HM = 65.52
M = 57.84 (looking for a huge increase this year (fingers crossed))

Michele "1L" Keane Fri Jul 08, 2011 3:38 pm

Dave Bussard wrote:I'm much better in the shorter races...Someday, I will run a 90% for the Half Marathon!!!!

My top 5 are all 5k's... 91.78, 91.26, 90.95, 90.52, 90.49
Next 5 are 10K 90.45, 5K 90.14, 20K 89.83, 5K 89.75 & 5K 89.68

All of these were run in the last 3 years. Best HM is only a 89.45, best marathon is a 75.72. Ha!...

What a difference 10 years makes...I could barely run an 80 in a race ten years ago. These days my tempo's are 84-85% ! Un-freakin-believable...

Now this is freakin' awesome, Dave.

Now, I see that Dave-O and Matt W gave nubmers - I thought you had to be over 33 for the chart to be relevant?

Any way:

5K 77%
10K 76%
15K 75.6%
Half 74%
Mara 72.7%

Dave-O Fri Jul 08, 2011 4:02 pm

Michele "1L" Keane wrote:
Now, I see that Dave-O and Matt W gave nubmers - I thought you had to be over 33 for the chart to be relevant?

Our times are just compared to the world record of each event and thus not adjusted by age at all. So basically, I'm 82% the runner of Bekele and Haile.

Joel H Fri Jul 08, 2011 4:27 pm

Dave-O wrote:
Chris M wrote:1 Mile: 76.15
5K: 75.03
10K: 74.59
Half: 73.66
Marathon: 68.61 (PLUMMET!)

This is beautiful....everytime you complain about more mileage I'm just responding with this chart.

sir digby Fri Jul 08, 2011 4:45 pm

Julie wrote:
John Kilpatrick wrote:
Kenny B. wrote:
John Kilpatrick wrote:5K (last year) = 64.38
10K (this year) = 70.79
15K (last year) = 65.47
Marathon (this year) = 61.01

This is a pretty impressive group!

class person
~local class Kenny, Digby, Julie, Mark, John K
~regional class jd, Mike, Jerry, Chris, Jim, KB, Gobbles
~National class Dave-O, Matt
~World class Dave B

Is local class seems so well local. How local like one zip code or county. Lol

It is better to have local class than no class!!!

Hey I'll take what I can get. I got 2nd place in my age group in a marathon and 3rd place another time (Sioux City, IA and Pensacola, FL, respectively). My strategy is to stick with it until I'm in my 80s.

I had the sting of a bad recent marathon eased by receiving a 2nd place AG medal in the mail a week later. I never dreamed of AG placing when I started running 3 years ago...

Michele "1L" Keane Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:06 pm

Dave-O wrote:
Michele "1L" Keane wrote:
Now, I see that Dave-O and Matt W gave nubmers - I thought you had to be over 33 for the chart to be relevant?

Our times are just compared to the world record of each event and thus not adjusted by age at all. So basically, I'm 82% the runner of Bekele and Haile.

Got it. I'd say that isn't half bad.

Kenny B. Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:24 pm

Seems many lose about 5% from 5k to marathon.

Julie Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:26 pm

sir digby wrote:
Julie wrote:
John Kilpatrick wrote:
Kenny B. wrote:
John Kilpatrick wrote:5K (last year) = 64.38
10K (this year) = 70.79
15K (last year) = 65.47
Marathon (this year) = 61.01

This is a pretty impressive group!

class person
~local class Kenny, Digby, Julie, Mark, John K
~regional class jd, Mike, Jerry, Chris, Jim, KB, Gobbles
~National class Dave-O, Matt
~World class Dave B

Is local class seems so well local. How local like one zip code or county. Lol

It is better to have local class than no class!!!

Hey I'll take what I can get. I got 2nd place in my age group in a marathon and 3rd place another time (Sioux City, IA and Pensacola, FL, respectively). My strategy is to stick with it until I'm in my 80s.
I had the sting of a bad recent marathon eased by receiving a 2nd place AG medal in the mail a week later. I never dreamed of AG placing when I started running 3 years ago...

Isn't running great?

Mark B Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:00 am

Kenny B. wrote:Seems many lose about 5% from 5k to marathon.

Not all of us... though I guess you could say my 5K time is soft.

Nick Morris Sat Jul 09, 2011 6:52 am

Kenny B. wrote:Seems many lose about 5% from 5k to marathon.

It does look that way. I guess that just goes to show how difficult the marathon really is.

mul21 Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:10 am

Mile-69.xx
5K-66.xx
Marathon-63.xx

Dave, leave me alone! lol!

Pete B Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:12 am

Just checked mine:

5K - 59.33
10K - 58.50
Half - 60.16
Full - 58.37

I'll take it - and should be setting new PRs at all distances this year, plus being a year older now.

Jerry Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:14 am

John Kilpatrick wrote:5K (last year) = 64.38
10K (this year) = 70.79
15K (last year) = 65.47
Marathon (this year) = 61.01

This is a pretty impressive group!

class person
~local class Kenny, Digby, Julie, Mark, John K
~regional class jd, Mike, Jerry, Chris, Jim, KB, Gobbles
~National class Dave-O, Matt
~World class Dave B

Stuck at Chris class, nothing to proud of. lol!

Chris M Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:11 pm

Jerry wrote:
John Kilpatrick wrote:5K (last year) = 64.38
10K (this year) = 70.79
15K (last year) = 65.47
Marathon (this year) = 61.01

This is a pretty impressive group!

class person
~local class Kenny, Digby, Julie, Mark, John K
~regional class jd, Mike, Jerry, Chris, Jim, KB, Gobbles
~National class Dave-O, Matt
~World class Dave B

Stuck at Chris class, nothing to proud of.

Jerry, we are like a school in the summertime.....No Class!

Diego Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:41 pm

Chris M wrote:
Jerry wrote:
John Kilpatrick wrote:5K (last year) = 64.38
10K (this year) = 70.79
15K (last year) = 65.47
Marathon (this year) = 61.01

This is a pretty impressive group!

class person
~local class Kenny, Digby, Julie, Mark, John K
~regional class jd, Mike, Jerry, Chris, Jim, KB, Gobbles
~National class Dave-O, Matt
~World class Dave B

Stuck at Chris class, nothing to proud of.

Jerry, we are like a school in the summertime.....No Class!

Whoa

, that sounds like a Fat Albert joke.

mountandog Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:26 pm

Interesting topic. Since I just started running a couple of years ago, my % keep improving (maybe because I'm getting older - lol) and the best tend to be the most recent regardless of distance. My best three, all in 2011 are:

10k = 77.12%
20k = 75.66%
26.2 = 75.13%

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class	person
~local class	Kenny, Digby, Julie, Mark, John K
~regional class	jd, Mike, Jerry, Chris, Jim, KB, Gobbles
~National class	Dave-O, Matt
~World class	Dave B