Miles or Minutes

Both. It's the pace that's really important and you'll have to know both to get pace. Why is pace so important? So you don't go too hard, on wo days and recovery days.

You are a TOOL!!!

Minutes. It's the best, especially when traveling.

I've noted it makes more sense as I get older, less bad news when I timed my former favorite loops. Now I run different loops and do more trails.

(Sigh)

Time marches on.

Minutes. Just start the watch, reach half your time goal, turn around and run back. If there's extra time just add on at the end. My former coach taught me this method. It prevents you from RACING each workout.

Minutes for me too.

I just run for an hour. Simple as that.

Minutes in the winter since the majority of "mile-marked" trails are covered in snow and unaccesible I often head to the roads where mileage is unknown- so I just run for about 1hr to 1.5hrs and log everything at 7:00 pace.

In the summer: Can't go wrong with miles.

Either way, it's 80-90mpw.

Minutes.

Just start my watch, run for the 1/2 the time scheduled, then run back. If I'm back early I just run a few more minutes.

Much easier mentally & actually has made training more fun as I beginning to run trails.

I do my runs by minutes, but I usually make a conservative estimate of what my pace was on those runs and then estimate how many miles that would be. I usually base my conversion on 6:40 per mile, since every 10 mins. of running at ~6:40 pace would be 1.5 miles. I usually go faster than this, so depending on how much faster, I will decide whether or not to add .5 miles or a mile to that total for the day, depending on how much faster I was running than 6:40 pace. On workouts, I go by time, too, but I usually also have a pretty good idea of how far I ran in that time, so it's not too hard to keep track of. Minutes is definitely the better way to do your runs by, but I still like to record it as approximate number of miles depending on pace for the day.

Minutes.

Miles

Time.

A lot more enjoyable.

Get a FL*PPING GPS watch. Then after you run for an hour, you'll know how far you ran.

Minutes

Easy / Recovery Runs - Minutes

Workouts / Long Runs - Mileage

Your heart doesn't know what pace or how many miles you've run, it just knows you kept it pumping for an hour. Measure your improvements during workouts or long runs. Keep easy days exactly what they're meant to be; aerobic recoveries.

I do an hour most days. I don't bother with measuring distance, an hour is an hour.

It's a habit, like brushing ones' teeth. I've also dispensed with the training log as I rarely race anymore.

Time.

I do off road runs a lot of days, so it's easier to just look at the watch and think "OK, that's a half hour. I'll head back now".

It DOES take some mental adjustment, though.

Pansies use minutes. Real men use miles.

So you use minutes, then?