Celerius wrote:
The Washington Post has ranked the athletic feats of various lawmakers according to a "panel of experts." Personally, I think Bart Gordon's 3 mile run in 16:59 (5:40/mile) at age 46 should rank higher than Jean Schmidt's 3:49:05 marathon at age 54. And both of those performances should be ranked much higher than Kyrsten Sinema's 12:59:57 Ironman at age 42. https://www.washingtonpost.com/...m_term=.57de4ae71a2e
Using this age-grading calculator from the World Masters Athletics based on world best times at each age - http://www.howardgrubb.co.uk/...etics/wmaroad15.html - Gordon's time (converted to a 5K of 17:34) is 81.3% of the age standard, while Schmidt's marathon time is 70.75% of the age standard, so I agree that Gordon's performance should be ranked higher than Schmidt's (go Ohio!). BTW, Sinema's 3M time from last year converted to a 5K (22:50) was 66.8% of the age standard.
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Mark Lemmon: May 15, 19 19:04