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Mathcad marathon calculator

Peter*
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Mathcad marathon calculator

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.

12 REPLIES 12

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

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.

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.

VladimirN
24-Ruby II
(To:Peter*)

Hello!

Peter, could you, please, specify the link on Mathcad Explorer?

Yes Vladimir, here it is the link for downloading the free Mathcad Explorer: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/msn/book/worksheets.html

LucMeekes
23-Emerald III
(To:Peter*)

In case the link that Peter supplied does not work, here's an alternative.

http://www.t-linespeakers.org/projects/martin/mathcad.html

Success!

Luc

VladimirN
24-Ruby II
(To:Peter*)

Peter, thanks for the link on Mathcad 8 Explorer!

P.S. Probably with the server there were any problems, therefore there was an error "Page not found". Here a direct link on the program: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~msn/book/mcexp802.exe

Vladimir, it opened without a probelm for me.

LucMeekes
23-Emerald III
(To:DanMarotta)

Yes Dan, the page did, but Vladimir is right in that the download didn't.

Here's one with a download that does work:

http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/msn/book/worksheets.html

{I've tested this one just now.}

Success!

Luc

Attached both of Mathcad Explorer 7 & 8 version to the message.

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