Feature I can no longer find on the site - ability to enter a race time and see who has achieved that time?

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boyband6666 Jan 2016 11:29pm, 3 Jan 2016 12 posts	0 boyband6666 Hello, For the life of me I can't find a nice little stalking tool I used to use when looking at starting a training plan. It was where you could enter a race distance, a time, and a caliper (e.g. plus minus 30s), and it would find the buildup over your chosen number of weeks in miles, speed, etc. of the people who had achieved that time, and compare it to your own. It would be very handy, as I have an ambitious target for London, and want to see what others who have achieved it have done. If anyone can point me in the right direction that'd be great. I'm sure it used to live under analysis, but I can't see it anywhere - it also made me realise there is no site map! Cheers, Anthony
Gogsy! Jan 2016 6:39pm, 4 Jan 2016 495 posts	0 Gogsy! Hi Anthony - I'm not sure as it's a while since I've done it - if you place a future race in your portfolio & then put a predicted time, then it loads automatically. (Or at least it comes under 'your next race is in x-days') I'll maybe give it a test & see if there's something else you need. Good luck
Badger Jan 2016 6:44pm, 4 Jan 2016 6,525 posts	0 Badger This came up a few months ago in this thread: http://www.fetcheveryone.com/forum__58289__1__training_analysis_tool_gone_or_am_i_too_blindstupidtiredetc_to_find_it Sounds like the same tool, and none of us could track it down. There's a link in there to the closest thing we could find. I did send feedback to Fetch asking if he'd removed it at the time, but didn't get an answer (which is unusual, in case I sound as though I'm complaining!)
Gogsy! Jan 2016 6:49pm, 4 Jan 2016 496 posts	0 Gogsy! You're right, Badger - I tried entering a race & nothing happened. (Maybe I should have tested first before offering advice ) It was a good feature, from what I remember & helped measure whether your prediction was 'pie in the sky' or if your training mileage/pace was similar to other people with the same goal.
Gogsy! Jan 2016 7:01pm, 4 Jan 2016 497 posts	0 Gogsy! Found it! After you've entered a forthcoming race in your portfolio with a predicted time, click on the 'RACE' tab. From there you'll see a list of Training Groups with various predicted times for difefrent distances. Click on the one you're interested in & it will show how your training matches to the time you've selected. http://www.fetcheveryone.com/race.php
boyband6666 Jan 2016 12:55pm, 5 Jan 2016 13 posts	0 boyband6666 Cheers both - in some ways I'm glad it isn't just me being stupid, on the other hand, it does meen it is MIA. The training groups is very similar, though doesn't let you set the caliper for how far out someone can be, just has 5 to 15 minute increments - a shame as a 2.25 marathon is very different to a 2.30, and a 2.40 different to a 2.45! Using that though there are 30 performances that have achieved 2.30... The average seems to be 75 miles a week, running 7 days a week, with a few dips down to 6. A few more stats would be handy like I thnk it used to show distribution of pace, and so on (average doesn't help when you have speedwork vs long runs). Also seeing the distribution in miles covered was handy, as I was always in the bottom 20% of miles for all my races, but I guess more intensity. Hopefully Fetch resurrects the feature though, as it was handy. The only problem I can see for the website was it took a good 15s to look everything up. Maybe it was too much of a burden on the server?
fetcheveryone Jan 2016 1:00pm, 5 Jan 2016 16,844 posts	0 fetcheveryone I've got 89 messages in my feedback inbox at the moment There's every possibility that I'd retired it to rebuild it in a less server-intensive way. I can see Badger's question in the queue, from 21st October - so it'll nag away at me until I do something about it
AngusClydesdale Jan 2016 1:13pm, 5 Jan 2016 10,439 posts	0 AngusClydesdale Whilst you're rummaging around in there, can you see if you can find the Mojo-meter as well?
McGoohan Jan 2016 1:14pm, 5 Jan 2016 20,705 posts	0 McGoohan I wouldn't want to be you at your annual appraisal. I'll bet you give you a really hard time.
Badger Jan 2016 1:17pm, 5 Jan 2016 6,546 posts	0 Badger As above, absolutely not complaining. My recollection is that it could sometimes take a minute or so to run, so can't have been very friendly to other users at the time.