You can also add 4 points to pre-super shoe age graded marks.
They adjusted the age grade standards in 2020 by about a point and a few tenths for 2025. And there is nothing near a 4% improvement across the board due to shoes. However, there are a few outlier athletes who seem to be super-responders. My AG prs are still pre-super shoe.
As for RQ, he's already entered a couple of races this year and has been public about it.
He'll be back in 3 years to set new age group records! He can still compete at local all comers, club meets, road races, just not sanctioned ones for medals.
Honestly you are lucky to live 75 years as a male even in a first world country. Take whatever you want at age 75, just don't take medals from those who don't
I take it as a given that about any masters athlete gunning for the podium is on TRT or something even shadier they found at a shady gym or got a shady doc to prescribe. There's clearly some level of neuroticism or anxiety or insecurity or some combo of those going on. It's the running equivalent of getting a Corvette convertible. The rest of us scratched that itch at the appropriate age and we're good. Even if we still exercise or have found a competitive outlet with more tangible rewards, we have moved on to more adult things as we've matured. That is the truth behind this meme:
LRC lore wrote:
There is a 49 year old in our running community who does nothing but run. Well, he works, but he had no other interests, no children and is a total jerk.
At a race last summer, he didn't too well and was passed the last 200 meters by a female Kenyan. At the awards banquet, he was pounding the table in frustration, saying how he was going to "train his brains out and pound her in the ground next year."
If he only saw the people laughing at him. What a joke.
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