TURN BACK THE HANDS OF TIME AND SEE THE TIME YOU'D HAVE RUN BACK IN YOUR PRIME!
For a limited time, any female runner runner over age 35 or male runner over 36 may use the YT+ performance calculators free of charge to get unique age graded performances (AGPs), their age grades, and performance equivalences (PEQs) Use the calculator as many times as you want. We only ask for your feedback. How can we make it better?
An AGP is a calculated time, adjusted for age, showing any woman over 35 or man over 36 who races on any one of 23 YT+ certified XC COURSES, in 18 states around the country, what their time there would be (its equivalent) as if they were back in their prime running years between 17 and 35.* You can get AGPs when you log in or create an account. Then click on the green Age Graded Content bar. Select a course and enter a time produced on it, that runner's age and gender, and click submit. You will be turning back the hands of time to see what your (or their) time would be, adjusted for age, as if you were back in school again.
Simultaneously you will also get an Age Grade. An Age Grade is a number, reflected as a percentage, that shows how close that AGP is to what the world record would be for that distance if it had been run on that course instead of a track. 90% and up is world class, 80–90% is national class, 70–80% is regional class, etc.
*Age graded performances have been around for decades and provided by many organizations such as Mastersrankings.com and USATF, but they have been only available for track performances… UNTIL NOW! YT+ is the first and still only organization to offer this unique performance information to the awesome Masters runners still competing in cross country, calculated exclusively using its patented Performance Equivalence calculator.
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Once you have an AGP, with the click of a button you can “compete” with thousands of other runners around the country by using the YT+ Performance Equivalence (PEQ) calculator. A performance equivalence, or PEQ, is simply what one performance would be—its calculated equivalent—on a second course if run with the same energy, by the same athlete, in the same conditions.
The PEQ calculator is accessed from the same page as AGPs. To “compete” using your AGP, just click on the green Performance Equivalences bar, enter your AGP time, the course it was run on, and the course you want to “compete” on, and hit submit. You will see what your AGP would be (its equivalent) on any of the 23 courses.
By looking up race results on the “second” course you can see where you (or your top rival?) would have placed there or in hundreds of other high school meets around the U.S. You can also use the PEQ calculator to see the time you or any runner is capable of producing in an upcoming race on any of the same 23 courses and take the guesswork out of your race planning.
“It’s like racing on multiple courses at the same time!”
— Scott Eriksson, National Masters News
Check out the data collected over a five-year period showing how closely actual performances match their PEQ-projected ones by clicking on the “How accurate is YT+?” navigation bar on the main page.
AGPs are just another kind of PEQ, adjusted for age. If PEQs are accurate, and a runner performs with equal energy in both races within a 4-week fitness window, then their actual performance on the second course should be close to—if not identical to—its projected PEQ.
The data you will read, based entirely on YT+ PEQs, shows their “amazing” accuracy.
“Until now, performances on one cross country course could not be objectively compared to performances on another. When I was approached about YT+ (known then as OCRS) Performance Equivalences in 2019, I was intrigued but honestly doubtful that an ‘apples to apples’ comparison was possible. But when we applied this to our top runner… I was amazed how consistently accurate this information would be. My only wish was that we had this all through his career.”
— Pete O’Brien, M.D., Virginia Episcopal School Assistant Coach
“The results are in: this program works! It allows not only a comparison of performances at different venues, but assists in training and race preparation. Runners take your marks!”
— Bob Wilder, M.D., FACSM, Medical Director, The Runner’s Clinic, University of Virginia; Co-Editor, The Textbook of Running Medicine