"Self-Service" Road Race Rankings (Read 1330 times)

Hi RunningAhead forum users!

 

Hey, I've noticed over the past couple months that quite a few participants in this forum have visited and linked to my blog, Younger Legs for Older Runners.

 

So I thought you might be interested to know that I've just gone live with "Road Race Rankings" for older runners - those of us 30 and over.  It's a self-input rankings system, meaning you fill out a "Submit Results" form, and then you instantly get ranked!

 

You can enter results for as many race distances as you want.  Then you can check your rankings in three different ways.  You can go to "Athlete Lists" and click on your name, which will instantly pull up your times for all races and your rank at each distance.  Or you can go into indiviual "Events" rankings and see where you stand in your age group that way - as well as checking out who else is ranked.  Or you can access the age-graded "Top 100" for each race distance, which pits runners from all age groups against one another via age-grading.

 

In any case, I hope I'm not breaking any rule of this forum by posting a link back to my own blog for this.  But since so many of you are regular visitors anyway, and since I think this is such a great system.  And since it's really important that it get off to a good start - meaning I need as many people who are willing to seed the system with their results as possible, so that others will follow - I figured I'd take the chance.

 

Here's the link:

http://www.mastersrankings.com/index.php?pseason=RR

 

Thanks!

Pete

Hi RunningAhead forum users!

 

 

So I thought you might be interested to know that I've just gone live with "Road Race Rankings" for older runners - those of us 30 and over.

 

Hey Pete -- if you call 'older' runners 30 and over....what do you call guys like me that are turning 57 next month??

 

Is there a category called 'Aincent Runners"   or maybe "Geezer Runners" that is possible more appropriate for us runners taht are 'truly older' runners??

 

i was just checking it out --- this is pretty interesting.......thks Pete

Well, John A, I'm about to turn 48 myself (in June), so I'm a little over the 30 threshold myself!  ;-)

 

In fact, when I was on today's morning run and actually had to detour around a chain that was blocking my usual trail entrance - a chain that was dangling about 6 inches off the ground - I felt like I was about to turn 78 (though I doubt Earl Fee, at 80 and still running hurdles, would have ever considered detouring around a chain at that height!).

 

But I figure our early 30s is when most of our age-related running troubles begin ... you know, the training and recovery errors that lead to so many problems when we hit 40 ... and then 50 ... and then 60 ... and then....

 

So if we can rope runners in early, maybe we can guide them down a kindler gentler path into their golden running years.  Besides, the years from age 30 to 40 can be very lonely, as we lose the youthful spring that had us competing in our 20s and are left to trudge through a long decade before we are reborn as masters.  So I figure it's almost our duty to help the "young" ones along so that, by the time they do turn 40, they're still running and all the more ready to join the masters ranks.

 

Now must get to work on this week's Weekly Roundup!

 

Best regards!

 

Pete

Ditto.  Love the blog.  (another ancient runner)

I was going to make use of your self-input rankings, but I don't turn 30 for a few more months. I'll have to wait a bit longer.

I'll tell you one thing -- after you look at some of the records and top times for guys in any age group (i was specifically focused on age 55-59), you have a whole new respect for older runners....

 

Good proper training and it looks like 50'ish guys can put up some pretty serious numbers.....(or fast times)....

 

PETE - What specifically does the term "All American Standard: 22:42 mean?

 

<form> </form> <form> </form> <form> </form> <form> </form>

M50      5K      Show Complete M50 5K List
All American Standard: 22:42
1	16:36.00	90.26%	BRIAN PILCHER	SAN FRANCISCO,CA on 04/19/2009
2	16:40.0h	89.20%	JOHN LOFTUS	CARLSBAD,CA on 04/05/2009
3	17:01.3h	87.34%	ROGER SAYRE	WASILLA,AK on 05/16/2009
4	21:13.0h	69.52%	KEVIN COWLEY	PORTLAND,OR on 03/15/2009

Younger Legs for Older Runners.

 

When I saw that title I couldn't get over there fast enough. Great blog!

 

 

A pretty fair runner, this Pete Magil guy is too:

 

American 45-49 record holder at 3K (8:37), 5k ( 14:34), and 10k (31:27). Sick!

 

Jim, don't tell me this is the first you'd heard of Pete's blog!

Hey Pete,  your blog is awesome!  Thanks.

 

Well said.  Another fan here...In fact, direct quote from my training log just this morning:

 

"Lots of self-doubting for last couple days leading up to this. Even short bad dream after hitting the snooze button this morning. Couple of bananas, some coffee, and a Pete Mcgill blog got me where I needed to be mentally."

 

Thanks again for sharing your experience.