95% of the world don't even know what 'miles' are. Why do you Yanks want to stick with that relic of British colonialism. Get with the metric system already
95% of the world don't even know what 'miles' are. Why do you Yanks want to stick with that relic of British colonialism. Get with the metric system already
Wrong, the US and UK alone form 5% of the world but there are huge peoples who understand miles, for example, the world’s most populated country India is one even though it’s officially metric.
As an American who runs races that often have mike markers, bit rarely have km markers, it makes sense to have the watch set in miles even though courses are all measured in kilometers
Yes, I used the imperial system for distance and pace. However, I would never stop a run at 3 miles (need 3.1), 6 miles (need 6.2), or 13 miles (need 13.1 of course).
Kms are for people who want their Strava runs and stats to look greater than they are.
Your Strava stats appear to others in the format they set their Strava settings too. So you can set yours in kms, but to everyone who uses miles, they’ll see your stats in miles and min/mi
I have my forerunner set to kilometers. I prefer the splits happening more often and the math for race paces is way easier in kilometers since all the races are measured in kilometers.
Nobody in America that I have every run with talks about running "4:08 pace on that last K during our 13km run." If we are doing an 8 miler today, we talk about finishing in 6:10 pace (or whatever it is).
People who live in the USA use min/Mile as their metric while training even though most of our road and track races are in Ks. Though, of course, for us the marathon is still 26.2 miles. We have mile markers in most races, even if the races are themselves in Ks.
Sometimes people want to "seem special" (for psychological reasons that are not that unusual) and these folks could use Ks to show that they are different. Acting special is a way to shape one's identity if you are actually kind of average.
Nobody in America that I have every run with talks about running "4:08 pace on that last K during our 13km run." If we are doing an 8 miler today, we talk about finishing in 6:10 pace (or whatever it is).
People who live in the USA use min/Mile as their metric while training even though most of our road and track races are in Ks. Though, of course, for us the marathon is still 26.2 miles. We have mile markers in most races, even if the races are themselves in Ks.
Sometimes people want to "seem special" (for psychological reasons that are not that unusual) and these folks could use Ks to show that they are different. Acting special is a way to shape one's identity if you are actually kind of average.
the only person I know who set their watch Ks was a runner of mine who ran at Coastal Carolina. Zola Budd communicated all the workouts, volume, etc. in Ks, and wanted the runners to set their watches for that.
Nobody in America that I have every run with talks about running "4:08 pace on that last K during our 13km run." If we are doing an 8 miler today, we talk about finishing in 6:10 pace (or whatever it is).
People who live in the USA use min/Mile as their metric while training even though most of our road and track races are in Ks. Though, of course, for us the marathon is still 26.2 miles. We have mile markers in most races, even if the races are themselves in Ks.
Sometimes people want to "seem special" (for psychological reasons that are not that unusual) and these folks could use Ks to show that they are different. Acting special is a way to shape one's identity if you are actually kind of average.
But no, nobody uses Ks here.
wrong.
how long is your local track?
m,kay, thanks.
What running group says, "let's run 4:25 pace to warm up and then run some 3:38s and then cut down to 3:03 during our 17km tempo"?
Nobody in any American running group that I have ever run with in high school, college, club, masters, or with friends has used minutes per Km as our pace measurement.
And the track is almost 1/4 mile. It is also 2/5ths of a Km. It is easier to multiply by four to get your "mile" pace than it is to multiply by 2.5 to figure out my Km pace.
If I run a 90 second lap, that is 6:00 mile pace. Or, doing it your way (which nobody has ever done), it is also 90 x 2.5 = 225 seconds per Km, whatever that is.
I'm glad you brought this up actually. I've been thinking for quite a while now that running watch makers should allow mixing of units for different things. At the very least there should be the option to use imperial units but anything less than 1 mile be in meters, or something to that affect. Because that's how most of us operate these days. Who the hell runs 0.124 mile repeats for example? That's 200m btw.
The US tried to conver to the metric system in the 1970s but all we got out of it was the 2 Litre soda bottle. I don't know why it failed but everyone in the US knows how much 2L is.