randymar wrote:
MarkyV wrote:
55-59 and runs 2:52Someone just informed me that "Marathonguide calls that an age-graded 2:14:32. At Boston. Yeah."
I love the "age-grading". In my office we had a race series for a couple of years. At first it was all 30-45 year olds. Then we got some young people and some older. The older ones argued (I think fairly) that they didn't have a chance against the young guys. I looked into age grading and came up with a simple, effective and pretty fair age grading system, so men and women of all ages could compete against each other on a level-ish playing field.
Of course, there will always be arguments about the grading, but at least it gets you close and enables people to understand just how awesome some older athletes are.
Good on ya Joan!
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