Are warm ups & cool downs in weekly mileage.

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Yes of course they are.

yes, running is running.

Yes. All running counts.

Warm ups

Cool downs

Recovery jogs

All of it.

You should be saving one activity on your GPS watch and separating the various segments by pressing the lap button.

If I do as much as a 20 meter sprint it’s included in the weekly

NO

My warmup/cooldowns for tempo runs and intervals are only 1-2 miles so I don't record them. I'd rather not see separate piddly activities in my training log and like for my workouts to Not include warmup/cooldown to make post workout analysis easier to interpret and consistently compare to previous similar workouts.

So my computer displayed overall weekly mileage is like 6miles short, no big deal.

ViperDom wrote:

NO

My warmup/cooldowns for tempo runs and intervals are only 1-2 miles so I don't record them. I'd rather not see separate piddly activities in my training log and like for my workouts to Not include warmup/cooldown to make post workout analysis easier to interpret and consistently compare to previous similar workouts.

So my computer displayed overall weekly mileage is like 6miles short, no big deal.

that's fine, but if somebody asks you "how many miles do you run per week" you should absolutely include those 6

dstcoach 12:59 wrote:

Yes. All running counts.

Warm ups

Cool downs

Recovery jogs

All of it.

You should be saving one activity on your GPS watch and separating the various segments by pressing the lap button.

Agreed, except I save warmups and cooldowns as separate activities.

Do you all warm up / cool down on moderate days?

I warm up for nearly all run as I’m old which is an 8-8:30 pace jog for a mile, but my cool down is stopping my watch and walking a half mile back to my house.

Today it was raining so I went from a 6:50 last mile, fastish for me these days, into my driveway and in the house directly to the shower.

Gianmarco wrote:

Hello everyone,

on many articles an threads we find plenty of information about weekly mileages of former elite or sub-elite runners covering like 150 or more miles/week... Personally I believe that they also calculate warm-up and cool down miles.

How do you calculate your miles per week? Do you include warm ups, cool downs and rest-jogs in your weekly balance?

My example:

- Marathon pb: 2h27'

- peak "clear" miles per week: 80

- peak "gross" miles per week: 100 (also including all "junk-but-very-important" pre and after workout mileage)

Thanks.

A good advice from me: stop counting the miles and run by time instead. Most easy steady runs at 40-60 min and sometimes 70-80 min to get more enzymes and mitochondria boost for the energy process. If going for half/marathon , sometimes do long runs of 90 min - 2 hours 40 min . It`s HOW you run your miles that mainly counts most for the result..

Jogger262 wrote:

Do you all warm up / cool down on moderate days?

I warm up for nearly all run as I’m old which is an 8-8:30 pace jog for a mile, but my cool down is stopping my watch and walking a half mile back to my house.

Today it was raining so I went from a 6:50 last mile, fastish for me these days, into my driveway and in the house directly to the shower.

generally if I do a tempo run I do it as an out and back run ("run to the barn") where I close the last la of the run at a tempo effort. Naturally a warmup is included but no cooldown.

There are loads of ways to cool down that don't involve running, it just takes some shifting of perspectives. "Scientifically" speaking light jogging after a workout does seem to help pump fresh blood to tired muscles more effectively than without a cooldown (most, if not all, of my workouts include a cooldown jog) but chilling out with walking, food, music, friends, bike ride back home, etc. can all fulfill a purpose as well. Just depends on what works for you and what you want/need out of your training.

Yes -- all miles count.

& not entirely sure what is meant by moderate days. Generally I do 2 hard workouts/week, maybe 3 with a long run. Almost every other run is easy. Pretty much every easy day progresses for me. There isn't a built in warm up or cool down. Generally it takes the body some time to get going and I hit my pace by the middle of the run without really putting in any more effort.