McMillan Calculator Changes

L_Master

posted: 5/7/2012 at 1:23 AM

The calculator now asks for goal times, age, gender, experience, and mileage. None of these seem to impact the given values so I assume this is purely to gather intel about who is using the calculator and how well it works?

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stadjak

Interval Junkie --Nobby

posted: 5/7/2012 at 6:31 AM

odd. Is this the one you are using? http://www.mcmillanrunning.com/index.php/site/calculator

Didn't prompt me for anything other than the distance and the time.

2013 Goals: 18:49 5K • 1:25 HM • sub-3 Marathon • run lots of races

Current Status 5/13: challenging my Achilles issue -- building some base

mikeymike

posted: 5/7/2012 at 7:36 AM

http://www.mcmillanrunning.com/calculator

This one has the inputs for age, gender, an email address, etc., but none of that is required. You can still just put in a time and have it spit out equivalent performances. I assume it's to gather demographic info for marketing purposes.

Runners run.

stadjak

Interval Junkie --Nobby

posted: 5/7/2012 at 9:45 AM

Yep, I see it at that URL.

2013 Goals: 18:49 5K • 1:25 HM • sub-3 Marathon • run lots of races

Current Status 5/13: challenging my Achilles issue -- building some base

Doug B

posted: 5/7/2012 at 9:54 AM

most likely it is a tie-in with a future predictor such as your fertility and gender of your child.

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dbilenkin

posted: 5/7/2012 at 10:35 AM

Quote from Doug B on 5/7/2012 at 9:54 AM:

most likely it is a tie-in with a future predictor such as your fertility and gender of your child.

Ha, you joke, but that would be sweet. I could figure out how many miles I would need to train and at what pace to get both a marathon PR and a male heir.

But in all seriousness, I was really hoping that somehow the amount of miles you trained per week, and your age and gender affected the predictions for the longer race distances along the lines of what this page says: http://www.hillrunner.com/jim2/id70.html which has been linked to numerous times from here.

Easy: Average weight below 160 lbs. for a month

Medium: Average below 155 lbs. for a month • 5K PR • Marathon PR

Hard: Run more miles than last year • Get to below 150 lbs. on marathon day • sub 20 5K • sub 3:30 Marathon

Crazy Hard: Run over 2000 miles • Have ripped abs • 20 pull-ups • sub 19 5K • BQ

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