Age-graded running times on the 2025 World Masters Athletics standards
Age-Graded Calculator
Age grading scores a time against the best ever run at that age over that distance, so a 4:00 marathon at 52 and a 3:20 at 26 can be read on the same scale. It shows how a race went for the runner you are, and compares fairly across ages.
How the time stands for your age.
Age grading scores a time against the best ever run at that age over that distance, so runs can be compared fairly across ages.
The twelve-week course
Tier I for a first marathon, Tier II for a big PB, Tier III for a BQ or faster. One video a week, with fueling, pacing, workouts, recovery and race planning in the week you need them.
Tier I
$24714 videos · 12 weeks
Your first marathon, or your first time on a real plan. Week 1 is three days of running. By the end you’ll run 16 miles (25.5km) and finish at marathon pace. We cover easy running, cross-training, fueling, recovery, your first threshold workouts, and how to run each half of the race.
Start Tier I
Tier II
$24714 videos · 12 weeks
You’ve done one or a few, but now we get faster. You should be holding 20–30 miles (32–48km) a week before Week 1. You’ll peak around 54–60 miles (87–97km), with marathon pace in your long runs, a 20-miler (32km), and a 10K time trial that sets your race pace.
Start Tier II
Tier III
$24714 videos · 12 weeks
You’re chasing a BQ or faster. You should be holding 30–40 miles (48–64km) a week before Week 1. You’ll peak at 60–70 miles (97–113km), with LT, CV and VO2max work, a 20-mile (32km) long-run workout, and an even-split race plan.
Start Tier III
All three
$494
$741Buy two, get the third free. That’s 42 videos, one for every kilometer of the marathon, and three training blocks from your first marathon to your first BQ attempt.
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How the numbers are worked out
The standards
The 2025 World Masters Athletics road standards, the same tables age-graded results at races are calculated from. For every age from 5 to 100 and every distance from the mile to 200 km there is a factor. A time multiplied by it is the open-class equivalent, and the standard for that age divided by the time is the percentage.
Reading the percentage
100% is the standard itself. Over 90% is world class for the age, over 80% national class, over 70% regional, over 60% local. The same percentage means the same quality of run at any age, which makes it a fairer number to watch over the years than the finish time.