Forums >General Running>McMillan Calculator Changes
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?
They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. "If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a Board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough" If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. "Don't fear moving slowly forward...fear standing still."
Interval Junkie --Nobby
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.
2021 Goals: 50mpw 'cause there's nothing else to do
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
Yep, I see it at that URL.
most likely it is a tie-in with a future predictor such as your fertility and gender of your child.
Dad, Runner, Programmer
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.
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