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Fleece and Dust May 2015 10:03pm, 12 May 2015 21,127 posts	0 Fleece and Dust Well, you would like it cos you are insanely fast, curly! I suppose it depends who you are comparing yourself with: the average bunch of runners your age in a big race (I'm usually firmly mid pack) or fetchies, who at age 42 definitely seem a bit faster than average, or just yourself and your own times. All things considered, I'll stick with the latter
Curly45 May 2015 10:06pm, 12 May 2015 2,731 posts	0 Curly45 I mostly like it cause it shows where my times are not in line (although they are better than I thought). Getting them all on one percentage would demonstrate an extremely well trained runner (whatever the percentage)
Wriggling Snake May 2015 10:09pm, 12 May 2015 9,293 posts	0 Wriggling Snake mine aren't either, but I knew that from WAVAs, top 1/3rd for 5k, 5m, 10k, outside that for HM, WAY WAY WAY outside that for marathons......
Fragile Do Not Bend May 2015 10:34pm, 12 May 2015 156 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend Well I'm certainly not one of those women pushing you down the list Fleecy! I'm about 65% for 5k but 85% for 10k (filtered by age & gender). Looks like I need to work on my stamina.
Fleece and Dust May 2015 11:01pm, 12 May 2015 21,132 posts	0 Fleece and Dust I am officially stupid, I just checked again and must have not toggled it down to female! Much happier with my 5k comparison now! In what way does this differ from WAVA though, fetch?
CStar May 2015 11:24pm, 12 May 2015 4,605 posts	0 CStar After a good Spring, am happy
chunkywizard May 2015 7:03am, 13 May 2015 424 posts	0 chunkywizard Fleece, I believe this table only uses Fetch data where as WAVA uses best in age category. Obviously it's basically the same but the fetch gene pool is 'only' 70K runners CW
chunkywizard May 2015 7:16am, 13 May 2015 425 posts	0 chunkywizard Just thinking about this more you can get some really interesting stats on fetchies. 95% of people have run under 10min/m pace for 10K, 99% of fetchies have run under 34mins for 5K which I think is really impressive if you look at parkrun times. It's interesting to see as a club member when you see the distribution of times across a population CW
fetcheveryone May 2015 7:16am, 13 May 2015 16,023 posts	0 fetcheveryone Also, WAVA uses only the upper bound to calculate its 100% levels. Our system seems crueller because the lower limit is not a zero. Also, as a result, our system can be altered by an influx of runners at a lower level, that would artificially boost those above them.
Ceratonia May 2015 12:08pm, 13 May 2015 2,135 posts	0 Ceratonia Would it be true to say that this is comparing your current PB with the current PB of all the people of the same gender and same (or higher) age? Not an issue for me, as my PBs recorded on here are all in the last 12 months, but I could imagine there would be people the same age as me now whose PB was set in their 30s? Or are you actually working backwards to the age of the person when they did their PB to generate the data?