Morning all
we've just made a printable pace wristband for this site, which you can print and wear when you race.
But before we stick it on the homepage, would anyone like to try it out / print it out / see if it makes general sense?
It's right hereAll comments welcome!
cheers
Sean, RW
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Looks good to me.
RHG, the 'printer friendly' version will always start off blank because it reloads the page. On my printer the printer friendly version ends up on two pages, strangely, but the original version is fine on one.
EP, do you have a 'fit to one page' setting on your print dialog box? Otherwise we might need to look at a page without any headers on it perhaps
Haven't tried printing it yet though - need to wait for lunchtime for that.
Can you program splits into it?
Luiked it so much I tried to Bookmark it immediately, but it doesn't seem to have worked.
- garmin forerunner
- heart rate monitor
- stop watch
- that lovely bracelet I got at Christmas
and now
- a pace wristband :O(
Maybe I need longer arms )
we're wondering whether to keep this feature in. If you've done a particular race before, you'll know whether you'll be over the line in half a minute or two or three minutes (or in the case of London, 5-10 minutes for a lot of people). And forumites would be able to helpfully reply to a question like 'I'm looking to do 2hrs at the Tunbridge Wells Half. How long should I allow to cross the line if I stand in an appropriate start place?'
Chip timing (at eg London) makes this less of an issue, but we wanted to give people the option of factoring it in to their pace plan. I've done time plans for lots of races where I've found myself instantly 'behind schedule' because I didn't factor in enough time to cross the line :-s
JJF, alas it just works on even pacing, if that's what you mean. But you can type your own times onto the band if you use it as a blank template
With the start time you could always say guess ten minutes and wait the full ten ...
Depends whether people are using their own watches or the clocks on a race.
Additionally, could you put a column in that could be used to adjust for faster / slower miles ? So that if for example we knew that mile 4 was a minute faster and mile 9 40 secs slower we could incorp. that in to the calcs.
Whatever you decide it is very good/handy as it is.
They gave them out at the LA marathon for different pace times - so useful considering i (like many others, i guess) cant do a single bit of mental arithmatic when the brain goes foggy at about 18 miles..lol
Possibly you could build a database of race profiles so that we actually select the race we want and it knows what miles are faster / slower by a percentage ?
May be a lot of work.
Anyone had any joy printing it yet?
It's awful wide for me (girlie wrists) but I may programme in a pair of scissors and an algorithm and sort that myself :-)
Thanks Sean,
I have just printed mine out for a marathon and ...
The band goes on to 2 pages, it would be better if the web-page (not the band) did not have the Runners World headline, this moves it all two inches down knocking the band off the bottom of an A4
I have also made it count down by putting my target time in "Time to cross start" and leaving the target at zero.
I agree with FLR in that a slight reduction in the width would be good.
Perhaps the Miles could be in Bold.
Like Flr, I have girlie wrists.
Might have to have 3 of them, with realistic target, aspiration target, and only-in-my-dreams target, and swap them round depending on how the race goes........
I'll never use it though....I distract myself from the running by working out how much time I should take by now/to the next marker/before the next drink station.....
....it takes ages and then I forget the answer and so a half marathon goes by without my brain being allowed to notice that legs are doing 13.1 miles :-)
1. narrower band
2. window without headings, to fit on one page
3. bold miles
4. 2K splits for marathon in kilometres
wishlist
1. manually adjustable faster/slower miles
Splendid. Keep 'em coming if you have any more thoughts. It's up as a 'beta' calc now on our main calculators page
www.runnersworld.co.uk/calculators
and also in the 'quiclinks' menu at the top left of every page
If the drop down menu included 20 mile and 30k races, that would be good.
Looks good though!
I'm sorry if I'm being thick here but . . .
surely if you use your own watch, and you start it when you cross the start line, you don't need to factor in how long it takes to actually get to the start?
or am I missing something . .
otherwise a great idea . . altho as somebody who won't run wearing reading glasses it's of no use whatsoever!!!
I just write some split times (depending on the distance of the race) in large numbers on the back of my number and put the pins in a little lower down so I can read them . .
but I have used these before when my eyes weren't so dim (and nor was I probably) and they're a great idea . .
If you chose to do a half marathon in km - it doesn't come back to your target time.
I had a target of 1:47:00, 1/2 marathon, Km, and the calculated total time on the band shows 1:47:49!!
try putting your time as 1:46:00 and it comes back with a calculated time of 1:46:48.
close enough...
Any chance of this in the next week before my 20-miler?!
Tall bird is that because the marathon is 21.1km? not the round 21K
Okay, the new version has
1. narrower band
2. popup window without headings, to print on one page
3. bold miles
4. 2K splits for marathon in kilometres
5. fixed the funny-time bug (thanks Tallbird)
It's the third link on our main calculators page