From: Raymond Sneekes Subject: VDOT Calculator Hi, I like your VDOT Calculator, do you mind if I use your code for my own site (http://sportlogger.nl/)? On this site me and some relatives record our trainings etc. in a next version I want to built in a calculator to calculate training pace using VDOT. Raymond Sneekes --- raymond@sneek.es
From: Joshua Wopota Subject: source code Can I get the source code for the VDOT calculations? Thanks, Josh Wopata Assistant Track and Field Coach St. Mary’s Ryken H.S.
From: Kent Black Subject: Pace Calculator? Is there a way I could get your pace calculator and use on our club website? Thanks, Kent Black www.clevelandrunningclub.org
From: David Boison Subject: Hiss Drive Dear sir: Do you have plans for your Hiss drive? I am not sure if I can get access to the Sky and Telescope magazine that it was published in. Thank you, David Boison
From: Ed Bervoets Subject: VDOT calculation Hi Tom, I am a member of a running club in Denmark and I am very interested the source code of your VDOT calculation. I want to implement something similar on our homepage, so everybody can calculate his/her VDOT value based on e.g. a Cooper test (12 minutes) (It could be a good suggestion to extend your applet by adding an expected distance for a Cooper Test at a given VDOT value). We can use the result for training purposes, but also for using the VDOT as a kind of handicap system, where fast and slow runners can compare their results. I am looking forward looking at your code. Great site you have. Greetings Ed Bervoets
From: Chris Rouser Re: Your Website I just found your calculators...it's book marked, great website and very helpful...thanks
From: David Keener Re: your web page for road grade Tom, nice web page for road grade calculation. if you key in 5000 feet and 1 mile, it sould calculate something a little less than 45% grade, instead it give 294.71% I believe you have a glitch in the calculation someplace. Try a rise of 5280 and a run of 1, and you get something really big. Thanks. Dave
My response: Hi Dave, Thanks for trying out my site! Do you mind telling me what search engine led you to it? Are you a cyclist, too? I tried to be clear about how grade is calculated, but maybe that part needs more work. The distance you enter is the distance along the sloping road, not the horizontal distance. The horizontal distance is hard to get - that's why I made the calculator work the way it does. You don't enter the horizontal distance at all. Instead, you enter the distance directly off your odometer. If you wanted an angle close to 45 degrees, you could enter an elevation of 5000 feet, but the distance along the sloping road would be close to 7000 feet, or about 1.34 miles. If you key in 5000 and 1 mile, you have an angle of about 71 degrees, not 45. I hope this explanation was helpful. If not, please write again! Tom
From: German . Subject: VDOT Calculator - Jack Daniels Running Formula I recently read Jack Daniels Running Formula, but to my surprise it included no formula, so I started searching for this formula online, till date no success. I found you VDOT calculator, and find it very useful, thanks for the effort, even though I would like if you could send me those formulas you mention on your web site. Thanks in advance. Germán Salízar Pareja.
From: Fernando Maldonado Subject: continued from ST forum You're a very accomplished person! Demand valve? I just finished my SCUBA rescue course which of course included O2 use in emergency situations with both demand valve and continuous flow units. I took FORTRAN WATT IV or something like that in the early 70's. About that time the Commodore 64 came out and I bought a 300 baud modem for it. Rather than sit through the punch cards, I dialed in from home and got my homework done. Soon enough there was a line at my house. I never went further in programming and I regret it now. In the 80's and 90's I did a lot of programming in Clipper for dBase applications. It was all hobby for auto racing clubs. Now I dive a lot, and ride road bike. No running for me. I recreate the club rides for people with Garmin units so they can "ride" the course, get prompts, know elevations ahead of time, etc. It keeps me real busy. I live in Newport Beach. Someday we'll meet. Regards, Fernando
From: Tom Smith Subject: VDOT Question Tom, I have been using the Jack Daniels method for coaching cross country for the past year. I still don’t have a good grasp on how or why the VDOT formula works. I was wondering if you could explain how you figured out the VDOT values and times associated with those values. Thanks for your time, Thomas W. Smith Jr. Cross Country/Track & Field Bluffton University
From: Karsten Rud Jensen Subject: Just a hello from Denmark Hi I visit your web-site and I am really impressed. I wish that I could do the same but I can't. I came to your site from Sportstracks I saw you question about fuzzy map; I have just upgraded and discovered exactly the same. Thanks and have a nice day Best regards Carsten
From: John Snell Subject: VDOT information I was looking on your website about your VDOT calculator. Since I am a track coach and a Math teacher, I was wondering if you could share the "gory details" with me. Thanks, John Snell
From: Elizabeth Baker Subject: Your website Hi Tom, I was visiting with Jenice and she told me about your website, so thought I would visit it. I'm so happy to be able to see pictures of you running, cycling, entertaining, etc. Also enjoyed the family tree. That's quite a bit of research.
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