Find a race, rate the run
A race calendar you can filter by date and continent, race distances that read in your own language, and age grading in the calculator.
Calcpace has always been good at the run you already did. This week is about the one you are looking for, and what your last one was actually worth.
Something to aim at
New page: a race calendar. It lists upcoming races and lets you narrow the list by date or by continent, because a list of every race on earth is not a useful answer to "what could I run in the autumn". It is a starting point rather than a finished thing — but a pace calculator is more useful when there is something to point it at, and until now the site had plenty of tools for a goal race and no way to find one.
Races that read in your language
The site was translated everywhere except the places that felt like they did not need it, and race names were the obvious case. "Half Marathon" sat there in English on an otherwise German page, because a distance name looks like a proper noun until you see it next to a translated one. Every race distance the calculator offers now reads in the language you are using. Czech joined the picker in the same pass.
How good is that time, for you?
A 22-minute 5K means one thing at 25 and something else entirely at 62. Age grading is how the sport handles that, and it is now a tab in the calculator.
Give it your distance, your time, your age and your sex, and it returns a percentage against the world best for people like you — plus the level that percentage puts you in, and the equivalent time an open-age runner would need for the same performance. Suddenly you can compare your Sunday parkrun to your father's, or to your own from fifteen years ago, and get an answer that means something. There is a guide page next to it explaining where the numbers come from and, just as importantly, where they stop being trustworthy. The arithmetic runs on the open-source calcpace library, as everything here does.
Two smaller things while you are in the calculator: on a phone, the row of mode tabs was overflowing the screen, so the modes are a dropdown on small screens and tabs on large ones — the converter got the same treatment. And if your profile says miles, the calculator now starts in miles instead of making you switch every visit.
