Tools
Calculators for racewalkers. They run in your browser, so nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Age-grading calculator
Age-grading lets you compare walks across ages and distances. Enter a walk to see its age-grade percentage: how close it is to the best that age group could be expected to do (100% is the standard for that age). Or choose a target percentage and see the time it takes.
Pace and finish times
Turn a time into a pace, or a pace into a finish time, for any distance. It also shows the 400 m lap time and the finish times for every standard distance at that pace.
Cadence
Cadence is how many steps you take a minute. Racewalking speed is your cadence times your step length, so these two tools help you work on both.
Metronome
Tap tempo: tap once for every step to measure your own cadence.
Steps, step length and pace
Fill in any two and the third is worked out. For example, enter the pace you want and your step length to see the cadence it takes. Step length is the distance from one footprint to the next (left heel to right heel).
Be-A-Walker
The club's Be-A-Walker is a predicted-time walk: before the start you say how long you will take, and the walker who finishes closest to their own prediction wins. There is also an award for the best age-graded time. These two tools are for the walkers and for the race director.
Predict your time
Enter a recent walk and it suggests a time for the Be-A-Walker distance.
Race-day scoreboard
Add each walker with their predicted time, then their actual time as they finish. Walkers are ranked by how close they came, and by age-grade if you give their category and age. The list is kept in this browser, so a refresh will not lose it.
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Show the HTML for the Results page
This is the heading and table in the same form as the other Be-A-Walker results. Paste it into the results page, or send it to whoever updates the site.
About the numbers
The factors and open-class standards are the World Masters Athletics (WMA) 2015 age-grading tables for the walks, from 1500 m to 50 km, for each age from 5 to 100. They are the figures built into Howard Grubb's calculator, which is the one this page used to link to. This calculator was checked against Grubb's on several thousand combinations of age, event and time, and the factors matched exactly.
Age-grading is a guide, not a measure. Factors are built from averages over many athletes, so they are less certain at the youngest and oldest ages and at the longest distances. The labels (world class, national class and so on) are the commonly used bands: 90% and above, 80%, 70% and 60%.
The Be-A-Walker prediction keeps the same age-grade percentage in two walks, so it is only as good as that assumption. The pace, step-length and cadence figures are plain arithmetic (pace is time over distance, and speed is cadence times step length).
Other calculators
- Howard Grubb's WMA age-grading calculator, which also covers running, jumping and throwing events.