MCAA 6 Stage Road Relays 23/09/06

I have decided not to do a conventional report on these relays but to leave it to others. Full results of the event can be found at

The interesting thing for me is to work out all the age graded performances and to list them in descending order. This gives a “ranking” of the performance level of each athlete irrespective of age. By comparing this percentage with those obtained at different distances and events and athlete can deduce just which event and distance he or she is most suited for and where improvements in performance can be made.

It’s internationally accepted that 70%+ is Regional Standard and 80%+ is National Standard. You can see from the list that James Trollope had the best performance of the day although he had only the second fastest time and that Derek’s performance at 50 years of age was on a par with Tom Penfold’s who is only 22. The younger lads know what they have to do to better their older ‘masters’!

	Name	Age	Time	Age Graded Percentage
1	James Trollope	17	18-26	85.02
2	Zak Kihara	21	18-05	84.77
3	Derek Donaghy	50	20-41	82.89
4	Tom Penfold	22	18-38	82.26
5	Gordon Orme	64	23-49	81.66
6	Simon Hall	26	19-13	79.77
7	Ronnie McWilliam	38	20-01	78.38
8	Marc Turner	17	20-06	77.97
9	Oliver Teasel	22	19-53	77.09
10	Gerry Timmins	43	21-37	75.21
11	Windel Simpson	43	21-48	74.58
12	Mike Morley	41	21-37	74.13
13	Tom Holden	55	24-44	72.24
14	Paul Bullock	50	24-08	71.04
15	Robin Davies	59	26-59	68.64
16	Martin Wilkinson	47	24-51	67.41
17	John Adams	56	27-19	65.99
18	James Lynch	18	24-43	62.85