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Running and heart rate question

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  • buzzyzoe
    buzzyzoe Posts: 477 Forumite
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    MallyGirl wrote: »
    I am with you - PB is 31:44.

    I've never got under 30 mins. Also sad now that that's considered slow!
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  • Mr_Singleton
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    buzzyzoe wrote: »
    . Also sad now that that's considered slow!

    It's not considered slow.... it IS slow. :beer:

    Seriously, average male 5k time across all groups is (I believe) around 23 minutes. A time slower than 30 mins would put you in the bottom 10%? of all UK 5k runners.

    Anyway it doesn't matter as in the end the only person your racing is yourself.
  • MallyGirl
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    At my PR last week a time of sub 30 mins would have been position 298 out of 410 runners. Bottom 25% are over 30 mins - sounds better to me :)
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    @MallyGirl I think that he is specifically talking about males over 30 rather than females.

    At my parkrun the other week (I've just looked at the figures) there was a field of around 115 people in total. There were 57 males of which there were only 4 males over 30 mins. So ~7% were slower than 30 mins.

    Which sounds about right to me.
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    ah - sounds better. My userid is obviously female but some others could be either gender.
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    MallyGirl wrote: »
    At my PR last week a time of sub 30 mins would have been position 298 out of 410 runners. Bottom 25% are over 30 mins - sounds better to me :)

    Just to follow up with this:
    To get an age grade score of 50% for a female:
    For a 5k need to be running
    Age 30: 28:52
    Age 40: 30:00
    Age 50: 33:30

    Incidentally for a 65 yr old male running 28:00 gives a grade average of 58.65% which is better than average.
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  • buzzyzoe
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    I am also obviously female.

    I finished 20th out of 50 females at my last parkrun so I don't know if I agree that it is slow
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    edited 4 November 2016 at 12:55PM
    buzzyzoe wrote: »
    I am also obviously female.

    I finished 20th out of 50 females at my last parkrun so I don't know if I agree that it is slow

    If you are over 40 then 30:00 would be considered better than average if you are under 40 then it would be below average.
    31:44 is average for a 46yr old female.
    Try https://www.goodrunguide.co.uk/AgeGraded.asp to give your time an age graded score. Greater than 50% is good.



    Edit: Also parkrun is not a representative sample as a lot of the female runner that run at my local one are clearly very slow compared to the average runner.
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    indesisiv wrote: »
    31:44 is average for a 46yr old female.
    Try https://www.goodrunguide.co.uk/AgeGraded.asp to give your time an age graded score. Greater than 50% is good.

    cool - I am 49 and my PB is 31:44 :)
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