age graded running
How does Age-Graded Scoring work? Let's say a 55-year old male runs a marathon in 3:00:27. He would receive an Age-Graded Score of 80.21%. That is because, according to the Age-Graded Scoring tables, the ideal finish time for a 55-year old male is 2:24:22, and that's about 20% faster (about 36 minutes) than our 55-year old ran. Now let's say that a 27-year old male ran the same marathon in 2:45:47. Age-Grading is a way of measuring your running performance taking into account your age and sex....you can effectively score every run you do. Age-Grading is a way of measuring your running performance taking into account your age and gender. AGE GRADING. Age-graded tables are a series of age factors and age standards which can be used to compare performances at different ages in road races. Age-graded tables show how much a typical person's athletic performance improves during youth and declines during aging. The performances vary by event. CompuScore Computer Services. Runners have been getting their age-graded time on the post cards sent out by CompuScore for the last six years, but what exactly does it mean and how is it calculated? Before getting into age grading here’s some history on road running age groups. Executive Summary. Rex Harvey, World Masters Athletics (WMA), and I, in 2006, created updated replacements for the running events of 1500 m and longer for track races and 5 km and longer for road races. These tables replaced the 1994 tables. The track and road races are handled separately. Basically, Age-Graded Scoring allows all individuals within a race to be scored against each other. That is done by first comparing the individual's finish time at that particular race distance to an ideal or best time (not necessarily the world record) achievable for that individual's age and gender. Obtaining the 2010 tables. The tables for male and female runners are provided in Excel spread sheets. They contain age-standards in seconds, age-standards in H:MM:SS, age-factors, and performance factors. For road races: Male Road , Female Road. and for track races: Male Track, Female Track. It takes World Record performances for each age and disatance, for men and women, and uses these as benchmarks. So, for example: if the World Record for a 40 year old man running 10 miles is 46:31 and another 40 year old man runs 10 miles in 58:30, he has an Age-Graded performance of 79.5% (46:31 divided by 58:30). With an age grading system the 60 year old would have as even a chance at winning as the 40 year old. In 1989 the World Association of Veteran Athletes (WAVA) developed the first age-graded tables in one-year age increments and they have since been updated in 1994. Alan Jones, AlanJones@stny.rr.com. Executive Summary. Rex Harvey, World Masters Athletics, and I in 2006 created updated replacements for the running events of 1500 m and longer for track races and 5 km and longer for road races. These tables replaced the 1994 tables.
A way of measuring your running performance taking into account your age and gender.