How does everyone track their mileage? Time, estimating, garmins, GPS, measuring with car, maps or just guessing?
How does everyone track their mileage? Time, estimating, garmins, GPS, measuring with car, maps or just guessing?
FlotrackR
Gmap for the roads, time estimation for trails.
I use time: hours or minutes. I don't track mileage.
Minutes not miles for me, too.
mintues.
My log has hours & minutes spent running at the bottom of each week, instead of mileage. In general, I think that it's the most psychologically healthy way to do things. I did 5hours 30mins was last week. If someone really wanted to know how many miles I ran, i'd divide that by 8mph and say 44miles.
-STS
I count how many steps I take on the run - they key is to not lose count though. Then when I finish the run I multiply the number of steps run by my average stride length (in inches). That gives me the total number of inches run -- and then I divide that by 63,360 (the number of inches per mile) to give the total number of miles I ran on that run.
Miles, to the nearest half, rounded down. When distance is unknown, I go by time and divide by perceived pace to get a total, but I always estimate my pace on the conservative side. Most of my regular courses have been GPS verified, which also helps me guess what current training paces feel like.
Badger miles.
I use the Garmin 405 and then log the run at www.ndorfnz.com
Nike+ Sportband
Now I use the route mapper on USATF.org.
Back in the last millenium, I used to use a paper map. I had a string with marks for every half mile. I would lay the string along the route on the map. It was actually pretty accurate relative to the measurements I took on the same routes in a car.
I log minutes & miles on a spiral notebook. The Cheese logs it Old School.
If I'm on the roads/trails I estimate based on minutes & perceived pace, always conservative. Lately I've been doing even easy running on the track though.
Miles, surface, & exertion level go into a very, very simple excel spreadsheet.
sundial....
I run all of my millage on an indoor 200 meter track. That why I can keep up with my exact millage and weather is n ever an issue. Last week I logged 92.78 miles.
All hard efforts(tempos, intervals, time trials, workouts, etc) I run on a measured route(via measuring wheel or flotrackr mapping) and count the exact distance. All Ez,recovery, warmup, long runs I count 1 mile for every 7 mins run no matter how fast or slow I go. Example: 70 min always = 10 miles no matter if i really ran 12 or 8 miles that run.
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