Race History: Calendar Date by WAVA percentage

One of the things I love about running is that I get to record my progress and make graphs! I was inspired by this blog to create an graph of my age graded race results. I believe that age grading is meant to be used to compare results of runners of different ages but I like to use it to compare results across distances.

I used this calculator to convert all of my race times into WAVA percentages and then plotted them by calendar time. There’s a nice upward progression. The “2006 Half Goal” corresponds to my goal of running 1:59:59 at the Seattle half marathon at the end of November. Compared to my most recent two race results it’s a bit lower on the WAVA percentage. This may mean it’s a somewhat conservative goal but that’s fine by me.