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by dschwick
November 12th, 2011, 12:46 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Paul's Law vs. actual results
Replies: 12
Views: 11288

Re: Paul's Law vs. actual results

It took me more like 10 hours. The steps involved were: *Parse the table data from the logbook, convert times to milliseconds since that's the easiest way to convert it to a date/time and do math based on the value. *Figure out how to do the math for Paul's law with only a natural log function. I kn...
by dschwick
November 10th, 2011, 11:48 am
Forum: Training
Topic: Paul's Law vs. actual results
Replies: 12
Views: 11288

Re: Paul's Law vs. actual results

Thanks for the pointer to nonathlon, What a neat idea. I went ahead and signed up so now I have an incentive to do a full marathon BEFORE the global marathon challenge rolls around. I took the suggestions about the labels and the logarithmic distance scale and wrote some javascript to generate a gra...
by dschwick
November 6th, 2011, 1:14 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Paul's Law vs. actual results
Replies: 12
Views: 11288

Paul's Law vs. actual results

I decided to graph my best times against the values predicted by Paul's Law to see where my weaknesses are. I found it interesting that some of my best times in terms of online ranking percentile are my worst times according to Paul's Law and my best time according to Paul's Law is my worst in terms...