Do you count warmup/down miles?

Yes. If you are running, it counts.

I do. Except on race days for no particular reason. On race days I just put the actual race distance. Probably so I can record my race time and pace accurately.

I do but only because it is significant amount of mileage. I always wu 3 miles minimum and cd 4 miles. If I am usually doing 5 workouts every 2 weeks. That is 35 miles over a 2 week period or 70 miles a month.

Running is running.

NO dude. Miles only count it they are under 5 minutes 30 seconds dude and you have to be wearing h streets and a cotton shirt. Anything else is yuppie jogger miles dude.

You have to say dude a lot too when you are running dude.

Thanks dudes,

Consensus seems to be to include warmup/down. Does this mean somebody doing 70 miles (excluding warmup/down)a week in 10 sessions will say they do approx 100 miles (ie 20 x 1.5 miles warmup/down)?

Thanks dudes,

Consensus seems to be to include warmup/down. Does this mean somebody doing 70 miles (excluding warmup/down)a week in 10 sessions will say they do approx 100 miles (ie 20 x 1.5 miles warmup/down)?

Alberto wrote:

Thanks dudes,

Consensus seems to be to include warmup/down. Does this mean somebody doing 70 miles (excluding warmup/down)a week in 10 sessions will say they do approx 100 miles (ie 20 x 1.5 miles warmup/down)?

No. They will use a fairly simple formula as follows.

Count the number of miles they run (excluding warmup/down miles) a week.

Count the number of warmup/down miles they run a week.

Add these two figures together.

[The bright sparks out there will realise that this formula can be further simplified as follows:

Count the number of miles they run a week.

[Please note that this may or maynot total approx 100 miles.]

Hardcore letsrun dude wrote:

NO dude. Miles only count it they are under 5 minutes 30 seconds dude and you have to be wearing h streets and a cotton shirt. Anything else is yuppie jogger miles dude.

You have to say dude a lot too when you are running dude.

LOL!

But dude... this is bad news for me... must edit my logs... significantly. Does this mean I can't wear running clothes that match?

Dude, you can never wear clothes that match. Running logs are for yuppies too. I just write the miles on my garage wall. My Mom used to yell at me a lot about that until I turned 30, then she stopped.

of course!!! I even count strides, because at 4-8x100, that's .5 to 1 mile:)

Hardcore letsrun dude wrote:

Dude, you can never wear clothes that match. Running logs are for yuppies too. I just write the miles on my garage wall. My Mom used to yell at me a lot about that until I turned 30, then she stopped.

Writing logs in any form is for yuppie running trif@gs. My workouts are so intense, my focus so laser-like that each mile I run is permanently seared into my memory.

To answer your original question:

Do your muscle fibers count miles, or do they simply respond to specific stress?

Jason