I am doing this research for a statistics class, and here's what I want you guys to do:
1. How many MPW you run and if that is mostly quantity or quality (distance runs vs. speedwork)
2. And your 5K time, but make sure if its an old PR, you know how you were training when you ran it. In other words, your 5k time that you ran as a result of your listed training.
Please spread this around and tell your friends so I can get a large data sample!!!
please conceptualize your independent variables more specifically
17:30
40mpw
Drop this class now.
30 MPW
16:36
3.1 mpw, all quality. 14:50
18:02
35 mpw
100MPW
19:03
Your only chance of getting a passing grade is if this assignment is for you Message Board Trolling class.
It seems odd that age/gender would not be a factor. Without either, it's a pointless exercise. A 60 year old female running 50 miles a week with a 16:00 PR would certainly have a completely different meaning than a 20 year old male with the same set of numbers. What exactly are you trying to learn, here?
80mpw
14:58
Male
14:26
120 MPW
Personally I think that you need to look at an average miles per week over 3 years. Also age and obviously gender are important.
During the off season it was all easy. In season about 20% hard 80% easy
wierd and pointless wrote:
It seems odd that age/gender would not be a factor. Without either, it's a pointless exercise. A 60 year old female running 50 miles a week with a 16:00 PR would certainly have a completely different meaning than a 20 year old male with the same set of numbers. What exactly are you trying to learn, here?
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Yes, he ought to be asking for PR....after say...a year averaging what mileage per week, then age. Age is definitely a factor.
16:37
Avg. 27MPW up til then in the season.
Maybe 75% just running and the rest quality
Male
18yo
This is kind of ridiculous because I ran that off of a hold over of my track training, which incidentally had about the same amount of MPW.
However, a lot of me aerobic conditioning came from heavy cross training in the pool and on the bike.
So this study will have a preposterous amount of confounding factors that will heavily skew the results
18:15 5k pr
averaged 48 mpw for 18 weeks leading up to it. I would estimate that only about 6 or 7 of those were quality though, probably less.
A 3 variable model is fine--eg, 5K = f(MPW + %quality). I personally think that quantity/quality opens a can of worms, esp when we get to distinctions among races, pickups, progressions, intervals, tempo, hills etc. You might consider reframing quan/qual as easy days/hard days, thus allowing quality days to include the long run. You might consider adding a fourth variable--number of runs per week. I tend to think that doubling will explain more variance than MPW. A 5th variable could be weight.
Sub-19K, 70 MPW, in singles, prob 10% to 15% of what people wrongheadedly term quality. I didn't take enough truly easy days.
65 mpw with 2 quality days and 1-2 moderate days (incl. a long run and days with strides).
16:50.
male. 26. 2 years of running.
75 MPW, 2 hard workouts came out to about 10 MPW
14:22
When I was running more later on (110 MPW) I only ran 14:59. I hope this helps.
5-10 MPW; 18:59.
Letsrun Gunner wrote:
Personally I think that you need to look at an average miles per week over 3 years. Also age and obviously gender are important.
~15 miles per week avg over last three years
~ %25 quality
~19 min
Male
~30