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Welcome
to the Flyer Handicap Page
Click
Here
for a Web Calculator
to compute your own Flyer Handicap
Click
Here for an
Excel
spreadsheet to calculate multiple Flyer Handicaps for 5K races
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What is the Flyer Handicap?
The Flyer Handicap is
your 5K, 10K, 1/2 Marathon or Marathon race time adjusted by age and body weight. This
adjusted run time is a precise computation of what your
equivalent time would be if you were younger and lighter,
specifically 25 years old and 110 lbs for women and 143 lbs
for men. Your resulting score can then be compared to that
of any other adult runner of different age. If you are
younger or lighter than these figures, then for the purposes
of computing your adjusted time, the baseline figures are
entered for your age and/or body weight. Dr.
Paul M. Vanderburgh and
Dr. Lloyd L. Laubach
developed it at the University of Dayton, Dayton, OH.
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Science Behind the Handicap
The handicap is based on the documented decline in
aerobic function due to increasing age and fat-free mass.
Download the attached PowerPoint
presentation for more
information. We have three research papers on the Flyer
Handicap.
- The
derivation is in the March 2007 issue of Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise
Science. Click
here
for a pdf copy.
- The first validation study, is in the
December 2006 edition of the Journal of Exercise
Physiology (online). Click
here
for a pdf copy.
- The second
validation study is in the October 2008 edition of the
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
Click
here for a pdf copy.
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