Age Grading And Parkrun Times
We know parkrun isn’t a race, but your weekly finishing time is a great way to keep track of your fitness. However, there's another number that may actually be more useful - the "age graded percentage".
This recognises that our more senior participants may not have legs that operate quite at the speed of those in their prime. (And by "more senior" we mean anyone no longer in their 20s...)
Within the club we have all ages and abilities of runner, we have some top hitting people who are smashing out their parkrun times and hitting an incredibly high age grading and we couldn’t be prouder of!! Some of these who are above the 75% grading are:
KARL SPARKS - 75.27% - Stevenage Parkrun 20/4/24
JIM CALLAGHAN - 76.11% - Stevenage Parkrun 27/4/24
STEVE MOORE - 76.46% - Stevenage Parkrun 31/08/24
TONY RANDFIELD - 77.68% - Stevenage Parkrun 27/07/24
HELDER SOARES - 80.33% - Stevenage Parkrun 24/08/24
CHRIS ROWLANDS - 75.79% - Stevenage Parkrun 12/10/24
TERESA SUTHERHILL - 76.18% - Stevenage Parkrun 09/11/24
HELEN MOYE - 78:47% - Yarborough Parkrun 14/12/24
Age grading takes your time and uses the world record time for your sex and age to produce a score (a percentage). This score allows you to compare your personal performance against other people's performances even though they might be a different age and a different sex to you - the higher the score the better the performance.
The scores can also be compared across different race distances - to allow you to, for example, compare a 5km time against a marathon.
You can calculate your age graded scores reasonably closely by clicking here. Check out the percentage table list below and see how you fare:
Above 40% - You’re faster/fitter than the average person
Above 50% - You’re doing pretty good!
Above 60% - Local club class level
Above 70% - Regional class level
Above 80% - National class Level
Above 90% - World class level
Above 100% - World record level performance (although may not be official)
Here you will find links to Parkrun times for Striders past and present.
Most recent Striders results
This shows the most recent results for Striders in a nice easy to read consolidated report, from every Parkrun in the land and some abroad! To look at previous results, click the link in the previously section at the bottom. You can go back as far as you like!