Bonus Q: how much do you warm up and cool down?
for me, all mileage is counted. if i'm jogging around in an indoor track venue or something where it's impossible to know how much i ran, i'll still record the time and estimate the distance.
on an "easy mileage" day, i do not warm up. the first mile will generally be the slowest of all miles and serves as the warmup.
i will warmup 1-3 miles before a workout. counted. my cooldowns are usually 1 mile or less. counted.
also i count jog rest
Yes
For example, my long run yesterday started with a 6mile "warm up" with my wife & baby stroller, then i broke off and did 4miles of tempo/threshold work, followed by a 3mile cooldown.
Add all that adds up to a 13mile LR.
Real ones don’t count weekly mileage.
Lenny Leonard wrote:
Real ones don’t count weekly mileage.
i won't argue with that
Yes. Mileage is just one way to measure accumulated training stress. Warmup and cooldown, though easy, are still working the legs and count towards that training stress. The only instance of someone not "counting" warmup and cooldown I've ever heard of is Seb Coe and his coach not including it in reported totals, leaving many people in awe of the results they got off of what looked like very low mileage.
heck I'll count strides
If I had to run to the bathroom I count it.
lmb wrote:
If I had to run to the bathroom I count it.
And when we run from the cops it is almost a whole new category of speed.
Yes. I count warmup and cool down. My warmup and cool down mileage vary depending on how many miles I am trying to get in and how many miles my workout is. Sometimes my warm up is 2 miles, but often it is 5-7 miles.
DevinChaulk wrote:
Yes. I count warmup and cool down. My warmup and cool down mileage vary depending on how many miles I am trying to get in and how many miles my workout is. Sometimes my warm up is 2 miles, but often it is 5-7 miles.
You were "warmed up" after a mile or 2, so that's just "running" or "mileage". The fact that you did some faster "running" after that, is irrelevant.
Yes, of course.
And it varies.
Silly questions.
Enemy of the Podcast wrote:
Yes, of course.
And it varies.
Silly questions.
i thought it was a silly question too, but i made this thread because it's a pretty popular theory on letsrun that low mileage pros actually just don't count their "warmups" and they run the same high mileage as everyone else.
i can get not counting a warmup if it's a lap of the track and some drills - but for a 25mpw guy to secretly be an 80mpw guy off of warmups, cooldowns, and jog rest, i think that's pretty unreasonable.
so i'm looking for a casual runner on this site who jogs 8 miles before a workout but doesn't count it in their mileage, since thats what many insist pros do
Yes but personally only if the cooldown or warmup in question is 2 miles or longer (for instance as the distance squad we have to do a team warmup with the rest of the track team, which is 2-4 laps - I don't count this, nor do I count strides). Our warmups and cooldowns (prior to hard workouts) are usually around 2 miles or more.
Of course. Any running above some minimum intensity counts and should count. The reason why one count miles is to document the volume to be able to analyse in perspective later. All running have an impact with needed recovery, but the recovery for so called "recovery runs" is so short that you will feel fine the day after and do not hamper recovery from harder prior days.
I warmup 5-10min. Maybe 2-3 short strides included. I do a lot of threshold running which don't need much warmup (5-7min), but if harder efforst I "warm up" during the first rep. I rather "cool down" more and actually go straight into a 5min moderate effort after only 15-30s rest from the last rep. I do that as an opportunity to maintain an ability to use and redistribute lactate that often is highest after the last rep. Then I run 5-10min steady/ease which is really not cool down, but a way to add easy steady milage when more fatigued. This is my alternative to doing longruns. I often feel quite tired which is typical, but I tend to feel better at the end than at the start of the "cooldown".
Yes, I do.
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I just count minutes so I can get in my 100 mpw.
How would you go about NOT counting wu, cd and jog rest? Not turning on the watch unless you're really working hard? Pausing for jog rest? That's some crazy crap, nobody does that. Unless you're super old-school hipster type who loathes running with GPS watch. I haven't seen anyone even remotely serious about running run without GPS watch IRL for over a decade.
1500m-enthusiast wrote:
Yes but personally only if the cooldown or warmup in question is 2 miles or longer (for instance as the distance squad we have to do a team warmup with the rest of the track team, which is 2-4 laps - I don't count this, nor do I count strides). Our warmups and cooldowns (prior to hard workouts) are usually around 2 miles or more.
I don't count warmups or cooldowns. But I only do 1 mile of each, unlike some other people here who apparently have some pretty long warmups. I'm also no longer a serious competitive runner and haven't been for years. I'm just trying to maintain a decent level of fitness.