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I REVIEWED ALL OF THE RESULTS OF THE BUFFALO CHAMPIONSHIPS, AS NOTED IN THE NATIONAL MASTERS NEWS.

ENCLOSED ARE THE STATISTICS.

ASSUMING THAT 900+ WOULD EQUAL A WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE; 800+ NATIONAL; 700+ REGIONAL; AND 500-699 LOCAL, THEN ONLY 31% OF THE WINNERS TURNED IN WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCES. THE BULK OF THE WINNERS (43%) ONLY TURNED IN NATIONAL CLASS TIMES.

BOTH THE HALE AND FEMALE 55 YEAR OLD DIVISION SCORED THE BEST COMPOSITE SCORES. THEREAFTER, THERE WAS A STEADY PROGRESSION DOWNWARD IN EACH SUBSBQUBRT AGE GROUP.

IF WAVA WISHES TO KEEP TO THE THEORY THAT 900+ IS WORLD CLASS THIN EITHER THE TABLES SHOULD BE MODIFIED, OR THE NUMBER TO BE CORSIDERED WORLD CLASS SHOULD BE LOWERED TO 850 OR EVEN 800.

IF PLACI.IIG BECOMES THE MAJOR DETERMINANT OF "WORLD CLASS", THEN ANYORE REACHING THE FINAL, OR THE TOP EIGHT, SHOULD HAVE THAT DESIGNATION. TAKING THE AG POINTS OF THE LAST PLACE FINISHERS IN ALL OF THE FINALS, ONLY SIX SCORED OVER 900 POINTS. I JUST GOT TOO TIRED TO REVIEW ALL OF THE RESULTS FOR THE LAST PLACE FINALISTS, BUT A CURSORY REVIEW WOULD SEEM TO IKDICATE THAT THE BULK OF THEM SCORED 700 POINTS OR LESS.

I AM AWARE THAT A PEW OUTSTAifDIRG ATHLETES CAR "WARP" THE TABLES, BUT I WOULD ARGUE THAT A PIRALIST IN 'l'IIE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED WORLD CLASS (EXCEPT FOR PERFORMANCES ON THE LEVEL OF SUR BONNET SUB ) .

THE BOTTOM LINE BEING THAT YOU AND THE WAVA AG COMMITTEE SHOULD SAY, "GOODBYE", TO FAMILY AlfD PRIERDS WHEN YOU NEXT REVIEW THE TABLES, AND BE PREPARED TO SPEND WEEKS OR ANY REVISIOR OF THE TABLES.

I CAN'T THINK OF A MORE THANKLESS JOB, OTHER THAN BEING THE PARENT OF A TEENAGER. TAKE MY ARALYSIS FOR WHAT IT IS WORTH - DO NOT BECOME INSOMNIACS BECAUSE OF THIS EPISTLE.

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M40 M45 M50 M55 M60 M65 M70 M75 M80 M85 M90 i35 i40 145 i50 i55 i60 i65 W70 i75 180 185 EVENT 100 ~1! 912 982 9 74 9 66 953 977 907 894 859 7!7 847 869 914 940 951 983 920 914 801 812 606 100 891 200 913 894 942 930 926 898 897 884 868 810 664 862 815 927 928 916 906 897 866 756 712 549 200 855 400 959 940 958 969 995 969 929 910 868 754 580 859 884 944 956 907 907 867 870 716 662 400 876 800 ~54 935 H4 923 926 995 900 841 831 650 583 871 874 910 882 914 864 798 858 577 725 800 841 1501! 921 942 Y35 92! 921 943 918 855 813 661 866 865 896 905 894 842 801 900 847 748 1500 870 5000 890 919 924 913 915 879 897 821 780 647 579 806 838 838 887 901 856 809 860 804 658 5000 830 101)00 883 896 919 896 907 875 906 815 759 633 613 776 795 825 884 900 850 845 724 794 635 10000 816 IIIT.H ~43 4Jb 4}6 4Q) 902 QH 857 882 762 815 915 863 857 874 814 794 !NT HURD 883 H.H. 892 909 903 937 865 853 857 819 839 855 862 925 832 865 795 833 HIGH HURD865 STEEPL 887 909 965 965 908 822 905 806 830 777 831 836 876 763 737 STEEPLE 854 H. J. 972 921 912 886 943 934 886 840 802 748 844 907 945 912 950 907 873 865 888 813 792 HIGH JUMP88J P.V. 859 921 860 956 816 862 880 640 751 690 735 791 909 766 759 427 766 661 POLE VAUL781 L. J. 870 889 949 978 894 913 862 810 815 727 610 765 889 877 840 919 883 793 872 53! 582 636 LONG JUMP855 T. J 872 909 929 1026 899 937 902 826 929 771 518 823 866 850 859 934 819 824 814 553 653 787 TRIPLE JU871 SHOT 820 805 862 923 942 1000 910 942 967 776 897 579 679 697 724 838 935 847 836 709 833 886 SHOT PUf 877 DISCUS 671 732 896 860 895 848 760 828 860 644 824 662 622 655 734 841 828 792 645 688 459 DISCUS 750 HAMMER 800 854 911 895 920 948 804 770 677 546 685 793 901 891 994 1020 757 792 587 609 159 HANMER 805 JAV ?51 853 890 938 931 949 864 80S 786 580 311 550 150 118 882 929 776 806 585 511 511 JAVELIN 756 5K iALK843 872 878 924 944 864 852 804 779 799 683 908 856 856 867 859 863 885 820 836 812 802 SK WALK 846

AVG. M40 M45 M50 M55 M60 M6S M70 M7S M80 M8S M90 135 140 145 ISO 155 160 165 170 175 W80 185 EVENT BY AGE 866 892 920 937. 916 916. 882 831 824 70S 647 789 831 858 866 887 840. 827 806 105 684 628 AVERAGES 842

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August 28, 1994

Tony Lastra SDAD. Deportiva Correcaminos Pintor Peiro, 10, Sa 46010 Valencia Spain

Dear Tony:

Thank you for your press release on the February 5 race. We will give it prominent attention in our publication.

Enclosed is the Age-Graded Tables Book, which features the single-age factors and standards for all track & field, long distance running, and racewalking events. It also contains a bit of explanation and charts.

Please call or fax me if you have any questions, and keep me informed on the progress of the race -- how many entries, etc.

Sincerely,

{fft! Al Sheahen Publisher/Editor

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Antonio de la Lastra President SDAD.Deportiva Correcaminos Pintor Peiro, lo,s.a 46010 Valencia

Dear Senor de'la Lastra:

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I just received your letter of February 24, asking for advice on setting age-handicaps for your 1995 Marathon Popular De Valencia.

First, let me congratulate you on your plan to use age-handicaps. The race will be much more exciting and interesting with this method. And the winner should truly be the best runner, based on sex and age.

The method you have outlined, based on the 1989 WAVA age standards, is quite acceptable and should produce a good result.

However, if you'd like an even better result., may I suggest you use the new 1994 age standards, which will be finalized in about 14 days. I will be happy to send them to you when they are ready.

The current tables, while theoretically fair, tend to give a slight advantage to the younger groups and to the men. The new 1994 tables will correct that slight inequity.

I don't want to confuse things, but, if you would like to make the time'. ~.. handicaps even fairer, I suggest you di. vide all the current handicaps (or the ones from the 1994 tables) by 90%, assuming it's a good, but not great, field. If the field is only average, you could divide by 80%. If you want to know the reasons for that, please write and I'll tell you. It's a bit complicated.

So ••• if you did that, for example, the time difference between the W70 and W65, which is now 12:34, would be 13:58 (12:34 divided by .90). or 15:43 (12:34 divided by .80). Surprisingly, this works out to be somewhat fairer than the straight time method. As you can see, the process favors the older runner.

As I say, I don't want to complicate your commendable effort, but, it's a little extra something to think about.

I'll send you the 1994 tables in two weeks, Please keep in touch as to the progress of the race.

Sincerely, A1 Sheahen, Chairman, WAVA Age-Graded Committee

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Mr. Al Sheahen P.O. Box 2372 Van Nuys, CA 91404, USA

Our Club "Sociedad Deportiva CORRECAMINOS" is organizing the MARATHON POPULAR DE VALENCIA for 14 years, and we have schedules tfie- -f'Stlf edition for February 1995. our race belongs to the Association of International Marathons and Road Races - A.I.M.S. for several years and is included in the annual calendar of I.A.A.F./A.I.M.S.

Our intention for this 15th edition is to organize a race with handicaps, and our preliminary studies are based on the attached tables released by a committee of W.A.V.A. where your name is given as the focal point for information.

Based on these tables, we have developped our handicap tables as well for men than for women, and we do have for both categories the lead times between the different age groups. Nevertheless, our intention being to have just one category at the finish line, we have set a 0:14:16 handicap between men and women (difference between men and women world records- 2:06:50 and 2:21:06). The conjonction age and sex handicaps established, we could consider that the marathon winner would be the first man or woman crossing the finish line.

We enclosed for your information the starting tables we have set.

Our schedule requires to conclude the project details and handicaps tables by middle of next month, so we would very much appreciate if you could give us before this date your approval, opinion, recommendations, warnings, etc ... , to both the project itself and the time tables we have set.

We thank you in advance for ycur help, please receive our best sportive regards.

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August 10, 1994

To: WAVA Council From: Al Sheahen

Dear Friends:

Enclosed, at long last, is the new, revised, 1994 edition of the Age-Graded Tables Book.

WAVA was the driving force behind the creation and development of .these tables, and I think the final product justfies the Council's commitment to the project. I think it's something of which we can all be proud.

WAVA is given full credit in the book as the body which researched and compiled the tables.

The concept of age-grading seems to be slowly increasing in acceptance. Several road races in England and the USA are using the tables to award prizes. A major road race in Spain is actually going to use the "time-handicap" start, based on the tables, early next year.

Hopefully, the instructions and examples in the first part of the book will be easy for most people to understand. A more detailed explanation of how the tables were developed is in the back pages.

If you have any questions or comments, please call or ·fax me or Rex.

Happy reading,

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August 9, 1994

Dear Age-Graded Enthusiast:

The 1994 revision of the Age-Graded Tables has, at long last, been completed. The five-year tables have been approved by the World Association of Veteran Athletes (WAVA) , and single-age factors and standards have been computer-prepared.

Enclosed is the revised Age-Graded Tables book, which includes age factors and age standards for ages 8 thru 100. Please enjoy it with our compliments.

If you have any questions or comments regarding the tables, please call/fax/write me at the number below, or Rex Harvey at 216-531-3000; 3366; or 216-446-0559 (h).

If you have any questions re the youth tables, please contact Chuck Phillips at 202-244-6321. Chuck researched and complied the youth tables, and also computerized the five-year factors/standards into the single-age format.

Happy reading,

c:t!t Al Sheahen Editor

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The first Oceania games in Fiji in 1982 saw CoUeena gaining a first and second and two thirds. She bas been a competitor at all of the Oceania Games to date, all of the NZ championships since 1980 with the exception of lnvercargill 1982 and five world championships gaining a silver and three bronze medals in the relay, javelin, beptatblon and hurdles.

Colleena is not only a top competitor but also a top administrator, having served nine years as Treasurer of the Wellington Centre, is in her fifth year as Secretary to NZAVA, the keeper of Wellington Veteran records and NZA VA Womeos' records as well as compiling and

editing the Wellington Vets newsletter. Colleeoa and husband Jim willingly give of their time to

help with coaching and encouraging veteran athletes. They do this not only in their own Centre but whenever they are visiting other centres or competing in events around the country.

This March of this year Wellington will host the NZA VA Track and Field Championships and it is a certainty that Colleena will be heavily involved in the organisation of this important eved on our calendar. Despite this she will almost certainly be competing as well.

AGE-GRADED PERFORMANCES - SOMETHING DIFFERENT !

Centres and Clubs wming something different for their programmes might give some thought to "Age-Grading" of performances.

When the Lynndale Club expressed a wish to donate a Trophy to the Auckland Veterans Association as a memorial to the late Ernie Haskell, the Association had to decide a reasonable basis for competition which would allow members of all ages, Men and Women, a fair chance to compete for this Trophy. It was decided that the Trophy be competed for in 3000m Track events over each season, and that all performances would be ranked using the US Masters "Age-Graded Tables". The winner is to be the Man or Woman with the highest-ranked performance.

So far, three races over 3000m have been held, and with one event to come, interest bas started to build in both the actual results and bow the tables work in practice.

Some of our members are keen that we extend this sort of thing to other events, and we are going to sort out Age-Graded performances for other events (e.g lOOm/Discus) over the season results as a trial to see bow it all works out.

~ Au StuviAI!l Seconds Murray Nelson 46 8 20.4 500.4 George Pearce 62 9 30.0 570.0 John Dwyer 51 8 39.3 519.3 Mike Murray 52 843.5 523.5 Joe Jones 70 10 30.6 630.6 Lois Grimmer 40 8 57.3 537.3

By way of interest, for the runners listed above to beat Murray Nelson' performance with (say) an 88% performance would require them to run the following times:

By BRIAN KINO

HOW DOES IT WQRK ?? The "Masters Age-Graded Tables" booklet includes

various tables for different types of competition. Basically, however, there are two sets - "Age Factors" and "Age Standards". The Age Factor Tables are used for events where Men and Women are separate, and for comparing a person's performance at different ages.

We are using the the "Age StJmd.ardtf", which are used for COIDplll'iog performances in a single event or different events, among both sexes.

For each event the Tables include a Standard for each year of age for both sexes; the Standard for each age is in World Record range. For a particular running event, all you have to do is divide the Standard for the athlete's age by the time the athlete recorded (see examples below). Note that the calculation takes place on seconds and part seconds, so that for longer events minutes must be converted to seconds - not difficult.

For a particular field event, the athlete's distance is divided by the Standard.

In both cases, the result of the calculation is a Perfonnance Level Percentage which can be used to rank performances by all athletes.

Set out below are examples from our calculations so far for the 3000m event we are measuring on this basis:

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George Pearce 10 47.7 John Dwyer 9 50.1 Mike Murray 9 54.8

87.32 85.97 84.71 84.44 84.41 82.03

Joe Jones 11 56.5 Lois Grimmer 10 10.5

All this seems to stack up pretty reasonably to me.

NZAVA DECAmLON & HEPTAmLON CHAMPIONSHIPS:

The 1994 Decathlon and Heptathlon Championships were held in Hastings on 8/9 January 1994 in conjunction with the Hagenson Memorial Multi Events Festival and the organisers were very pleased with the outcome of these first championships. The result speak for themselves as to the success but the organisers feel more success can be taken with the knowledge that a number of people did not enter because of trepidation with the hurdles and pole vault. Of the people that did enter there were at least half who felt the same trepidation and yet we had every athlete complete the hurdles and get a height in the pole. DENNIS SIBLEY of Canterbury (one could take others) is an example to illustrate and as a 72 year old he must have been nervous of the new event for him. In fact I heard him say after the discus "now to the unknown." When the event was over and with the help of his fellow competitors and a realistic low starting height, he cleared 1. 70m in the Marett Bros Pole Vault. The New Zealand record is 1.90m!!!

Reporting on a Multi Events Championships is very difficult because so many events have taken place and with so many personal best performances the problem is WHO DO YOU HIGHLIGHT'?'? and what result is the one to feature'? However New Zealand records and world class performances speak for themselves. ROSS FLETCHER of Waikato in the M50 cleared a NZ record 1. 74m in the Campbell and Potts High Jump and scored 6029 points which would have put him in the top six in the World Championships. Local athlete MURRAY ANDERSEN (M4S) scored well with 5883 points which would have also put him in the top six at the Worlds and he did a NZ record time of 19.3 in the Omniport Napier 11Om Hurdles. These two results alone, plus what follows seems to indicate that some New Zealanders could well be better trying multi events than individual

IJEPTATHLON Hurdles H Jumll Shot 200m

Joanne Andersen 14.16 649 1.40 759 7.43 499 31.60 486 Colleena Blair 17.60 697 1.00 678 7.31 629 38.10 425 June Jacobs dnf 1.06 783 4.87 378 40.10 325

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Brion Doylo 13.00 .549 ~:n .542 1.'12 424 1.44 437 60.30 ~31 MurnyAado,_ 12.30 744 ~.40 6S~ 8.210 479 1.~7 661 59.10 6SO BrlonW"""" 14.00 444 4 . .50 433 6.n 3n 1.26 367 68.80 331 Micmel Clar ... 14.90 321 4.30 386 ~.89 313 1.29 396 73.30 215 Rcu Floldlor 13.210 643 ~.02 648 9.17 ~30 1.74 944 64.80 531 Nip! Toy 13.10 663 4.93 Ql 10.41 617 1.41 583 63.60 569 Char& DolcoD 13.60 m 4.69 769 10.92 766 1.26 593 84.40 183 JockPoweU 14.'10 .549 4.11 sao 7.36 477 1.210 ~210 71.210 5011 Jim Blair 14 • .50 586 4.1S 593 8.14 ~39 1,3, 696 77.'10 331 lviiiS- 14 . .50 586 4.09 ,4 7.111 433 1.17488 79.110 280 Doaalo Sibloy IS.40 643 3.16 461 7.98 602 1.14 627 110.'10 461 Bill Nicbollal U.'lO 586 3.18 467 8.15 617 1.00 449 93.60 183

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events, as we have good climate, facilities and perseverance to obtain skills.

The results in points is scored with a table produced by WAY A (to be produced in a later issue) and this put.s all of our results as veterans on the same basis as open grade athletes. We will be producing an overall ranking list later this season to show how athletes of all ages rate on the national scene. Back to the present with the championships being disappointing from a female perspective with more than half the entries not fronting up to the competition. Of those that did a close points race overall developed between COLLEEN A BLAIR of Wellington and local JOANNE ANDERSEN with Colleena heading Jo by 3797 points to 3789 points. Colleena bad a good Tbomsons Suits Hurdles with Jo's top event being a 1.40m in the Aparima Lodge Hig:h Jump.

Others to show potential on the world scene were NIGEL TOY of Auckland (M50) with a strong all around performance finishing with 5112 points and CHARLIE DEACON (M60) who was rapt with his opening three events, Grovedale Coolstores lOOm in 13.6, Coffee Davidson Long Jump in 4.69m and The Running Room Shot Put with 10.92m. Charlie scored 5235 points and he now knows what to do to get closer to a world class 6000 points. The winners of their grades will bold the New Zealand records and so we now have targets for multi-events competition but all competitors were winners in the sense of overcoming 11

nervousness about this competition and completing a hard but eqjoyable weekend. PS On comparing these results it is interesting to not«' that DENNIS SIBLEY and BILL NICHOLSON would have finished first and third respectively in the M70 and JOANNE ANDERSEN a close fourth in the W40 in th«' recent World Championships in Japan.

LJumll Javelin 800m Tot!) ms 4.35 581 20.88 433 3 11.0 382 3789 W40 3.57 697 21.10 671 dnf 3797 W60 2.73 355 14.48 431 424.9 158 2430 W60

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National Master's News P.O. Box 2372 Van Nuys, CA 91404 A TIN: Editor AI Sheahen

Dear Mr. Sheahen:

Mark A. Supiano, M.D. Department of Internal Medicine Division of Geriatric Medicine (313) 761-5564 FAX(313) 761-7489 INTERNE!' Marlc....A . ....Supiano@um.cc.umich.edu

Although I have several years remaining to prepare for my inauguration on the master's running scene, as a geriatrician at the University of Michigan I have had a keen interest in age­associated changes in exercise physiology and how that relates to running performance. When I lecture to the first-year medical students at the University of Michigan, I utilize a slide which represents the world-record marathon times by age to illustrate several points regarding aging physiology. I point out that, although finishing times do increase with increasing age after they nadir in the mid-30s, that people into their late 70s are still running four-hour marathons. To emphasize the significance of this point, I have superimposed my own marathon times over the last seven years on the world record times. Even my marathon P.R., 3:08, does not place me near a world record, unless I am able to maintain this pace into my early 70s.

I am writing to request the following two items:

1 . I believe that the data upon which the slide is based is no longer current. I would be appreciative if you would be able to send me the record marathon times for individuals over the age of 40, broken down either by year or by every five year brackets.

2. As a subscriber to Runner's World, in a recent letter Hal Higdeon indicated that, by mentioning his name, you would be able to include a free copy of the National Master's News. Perhaps if I get a several-year head start on the training tips provided in this newsletter, I will be able to get a head start on the competition when I tum forty in 1996.

Thank you very much for providing me with this information. You can be assured that it will benefit not only me personally, but also the medical students that I have an opportunity to share this information with.

Sincerely,

~Supiano, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine Assistant Research Scientist, Institute of Gerontology

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Do you have the new WAVA tables in machine-readable form, e.g. on diskette? I assume the data are on a computer someplace and I would be far more eager to add them to my program if I didn't have to type them all in. Joe McDaniel has offered to type them in but this seems unnecessary.

I really like the new tables. It's great that you've included the younger ages. I also like the fact that there is now a smooth transition for runners about 35 years old rather than the jump which used to exist between 34 and 35.

I will be changing my program to allow the race director to report a percentaga performance, e.g. 96.87% of what a person that age is capable of. This was a suggestion of Joe McDaniel.

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runners with whi(;h 'OUr assrsstunc~ \\ ould he very helpful.

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discussed the idea that a small pilot study (n 50 to 100) with which to evaluate our ltl f survey instrument would be very useful both for our information as well as any r ~ potential funding agency .

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to proceed might he l(lr us l,_~ ptt\ vo r (."'r~ani;ntl(}n a fcc l()r a complete copy of the dntabas<.' either on di:k. tar>' M h:m.kopy 11 an~ ot'thcs~.: arc pos~ibh;. We could then spend our lime rather than your~. rlcanmg. th~ inlbrmation v.·c nct;d such as descriptive statistics on age hy gender distributions. geographical location, date of birth, date and length of membership. etc., und any other relevant information. We ~ould also generate the random subsamplc of people to usc lor the pilot study. 1 f the database expense i~ high, we could pay a preliminary up front amount (pre­propo'5a1) to be followed by an addittotl<.ll amount it' we get lunding. Regarding usc ofth{' database we would be happy to have u contractual agr~;cment cl!.!arly defining the research purpm;c, usc and conlidcnttality of the database l.cl me knmv if this is pos~i bl v ~tuJ what y(~Ur kc would h~,:? Other qu~.:1;tion~. ol interest at ~ ! t,) -!t•ikt•in l'nP mombon:hip'J (i1 :tn~ r ) , :md h) i\rl' flrnp.nnl'i nr nnn'ni~W'-~'1 mcmhcrs retained in the databa<;L~ or purged'? Vv c under:->tand that this request may require time for approval ltl.l..J.UW.l'~~~~ ...... ,'-~•;t\J -g~~Mft!lir.llft!"fttl!taNti!tifP

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