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Peter*1-Visitor
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June 10, 2011
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Mathcad marathon calculator

  • June 10, 2011
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Hi marathoners,

For all of you interested in long distance running. Attached is a Mathcad marathon calculator. You input your age, weight, resting heart rate and race distance; it calculates the pace you should run at and the amount of carbohydrate you need to consume so that you won't run out of energy.

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ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IV
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June 10, 2011

Sorry,

but your sheet is a little strange:

1) one part of your variables has units (mass for example) others (age) - not. I try to correct - see the attach.

2) It is very dificult to stuty and correct your sheet - You use global :=

Valery - a former sportsmen - athlete - race walking. Incidentally, in the Race Walking maximum distance of 50 km - more than a marathon!

My coach was Leonid Spirin - Olympic gold medalist in race walking for 20 km in Melbourne (1956) - see the picture:

Spirin.PNG

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Peter*1-VisitorAuthor
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June 11, 2011

I didn't use the unit "year" because I wrote the document in Mathcad 5+, which doesn't have that unit. I used Mathcad 5+ so that the calculator can be read with Mathcad Explorer 8 which is still available for free on the web.

I used the global assignment operator so that the Results could be given at the begining of the document, to make it easier to use.

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ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IV
24-Ruby IV
June 11, 2011

Peter* wrote:

I didn't use the unit "year" because I wrote the document in Mathcad 5+, which doesn't have that unit. I used Mathcad 5+ so that the calculator can be read with Mathcad Explorer 8 which is still available for free on the web.

Now we can use Mathcad Server - see http://twt.mpei.ac.ru/ochkov/Mathcad_12/MAS/index.html

Peter* wrote:

I used the global assignment operator so that the Results could be given at the begining of the document, to make it easier to use.

Other solution - an using collapsed area and a doubling operators.

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