Any runners/athletes on this forum? + stats
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:41 am
Hi folks, wondering if on this forum there are any runners and how good you are/ what distances you/you've competed in?
From the ages of 10-16 I was always representing my school and from 12-16 ran at county level. Middle distances were my forte, though I'm favourable to the longer distances like 10k upwards. 1500 & 2000m was my best distances where I held the school records for, cracked 8 minutes for 2k by the time I was 13 and beat the school record at both distances at 15 where it stood for 3 years after when I ran it in 5min 05 for 1500m and 6min 36 for 2000m.
Since leaving school running has come in peaks and troughs for me, I was due to run a 10k yesterday but had to pull out through injury. I'm hoping to stay injury free and run one next month.
I've done all distances up to half-marathon and one of my life ambitions is to run the London Marathon in under 3 hours before I'm 30. My best times over long distance are 40 minutes for 10k, 1 hour 6 for 10 miles and just under 1h 29 for half marathon.
As a runner, I've used a tool called "WAVA age grading calculator" (google it to see more) where you key your age and time over the distance in and it comes out with a percentage. 60-69% represents local class, 70-79% represents regional, 80-89% national and 90-100% world class.
As a football fan also, I tried to make comparisons in footballing terms and thought that 80-89% would represent the bottom of league 2 to the top of the championship with 90%+ being the premiership. My best 10k represents top local but my times over 1500m and 2000m as a teenager come out as mid-high regional which I reckon would be northern premier league/confernece level.
Lastly putting in the shows terms, I'd say anyone who could pass an audition would be 80% +, but anyone who could score 800+ is premier league standard and scoring 850 + would get you top 6 in the premiership and 95%. As I have a new PC and can access apterous easily on it, having played a few games I reckon as a premiership team I'd finish around 14th and would get around 92-93%
From the ages of 10-16 I was always representing my school and from 12-16 ran at county level. Middle distances were my forte, though I'm favourable to the longer distances like 10k upwards. 1500 & 2000m was my best distances where I held the school records for, cracked 8 minutes for 2k by the time I was 13 and beat the school record at both distances at 15 where it stood for 3 years after when I ran it in 5min 05 for 1500m and 6min 36 for 2000m.
Since leaving school running has come in peaks and troughs for me, I was due to run a 10k yesterday but had to pull out through injury. I'm hoping to stay injury free and run one next month.
I've done all distances up to half-marathon and one of my life ambitions is to run the London Marathon in under 3 hours before I'm 30. My best times over long distance are 40 minutes for 10k, 1 hour 6 for 10 miles and just under 1h 29 for half marathon.
As a runner, I've used a tool called "WAVA age grading calculator" (google it to see more) where you key your age and time over the distance in and it comes out with a percentage. 60-69% represents local class, 70-79% represents regional, 80-89% national and 90-100% world class.
As a football fan also, I tried to make comparisons in footballing terms and thought that 80-89% would represent the bottom of league 2 to the top of the championship with 90%+ being the premiership. My best 10k represents top local but my times over 1500m and 2000m as a teenager come out as mid-high regional which I reckon would be northern premier league/confernece level.
Lastly putting in the shows terms, I'd say anyone who could pass an audition would be 80% +, but anyone who could score 800+ is premier league standard and scoring 850 + would get you top 6 in the premiership and 95%. As I have a new PC and can access apterous easily on it, having played a few games I reckon as a premiership team I'd finish around 14th and would get around 92-93%
