Mathcad marathon calculator

[Peter*]

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.

[ValeryOchkov]

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:

[Peter*]

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.

[ValeryOchkov]

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]

Hello!

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

[Peter*]

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

[LucMeekes]

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]

This link too does not work:

http://sliunix.lanecc.edu/~jamies/mcexp802.exe

[VladimirN]

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

[DanMarotta]

Vladimir, it opened without a probelm for me.

[LucMeekes]

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

[VladimirN]

Link for Mathcad Explorer 7 (may be useful to someone):

http://www.kkiem.agh.edu.pl/dydakt/mcad/index.htm

http://www.kkiem.agh.edu.pl/dydakt/mcad/mcad_explorer7.zip

[VladimirN]

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