WAVA Calculator - any discrepancies?
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Sep 2013
9:35am, 11 Sep 2013
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fetcheveryone
Hello, I'm writing a little explainer article about WAVA, for the uninitiated. There's a calculator on the site here: http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-calculators-wava.php I know that occasionally it's thrown up some discrepancies, particularly in the womens times (as the WAVA data for these has changed in recent times, as people like Mrs Jigs continue to push the boundaries of awesomeness). I'd like to find any rough edges with the calculator, and tidy them up before the article goes live - so if you could have a play, that'd be right decent of you. Thanks Ian |
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Sep 2013
10:07am, 11 Sep 2013
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fetcheveryone
Yay, it must be perfect 
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Sep 2013
10:09am, 11 Sep 2013
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HappyG(rrr)
Looks fine to me. I know some people debate the general statistical validity of WAVA, but your representation of it seems as good as anyone's? :-)G
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Sep 2013
10:26am, 11 Sep 2013
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HermanBloom
Ran a few for the blokes section and it seems to be coming up fine.
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Sep 2013
10:52am, 11 Sep 2013
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DrDan
What is your "gold standard" to test the fetch calculator against? I had seen glitches in the past with the one here, so I tend to use this one ... howardgrubb.co.uk
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Sep 2013
11:02am, 11 Sep 2013
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fetcheveryone
HG is where I've downloaded my copy of the factors, but if Fetch is differing from any other online calculator, I'm interested to hear about it.
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Sep 2013
12:07pm, 11 Sep 2013
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DrDan
Did a few comparisons and they seem to match exactly. The HG calculator does have the advantage of distinguishing between track and road for some distances... e.g. 40 year old man, 20 min 5K: 5000m (track) ... 66.75 % 5K (road) ... 68.25% |
Sep 2013
7:55pm, 11 Sep 2013
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andr3wht
tenths of a second for track events would help smoothing of WAVAS over the shorter distances.
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Sep 2013
2:43pm, 12 Sep 2013
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DrDan
A reverse calculator would also be good ... to get 75% at 10K, I need to run xx:xx time.
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Sep 2013
2:48pm, 12 Sep 2013
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Autumnleaves
Not sure if this is what you're asking - but when I put in my recent half time it gave me a higher WAVA score than appeared against the race time when I put it in - not by much, 60.31 as against 59.85 (or thereabouts).
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