How common is it for people/teammates to overestimate how many miles they just ran? (e.g. to misjudge, round up, etc.)

Til I got a garmin or used GMAp pedometer I overestimated mine

58.3897% routinely overestimate.

27.4876% routinely estimate correctly.

9.96352% routinely underestimate.

4.15918% have no idea what estimate means

Of course, this is why Badger Miles are so widely used...

about as common as guys estimating the size of their penises.

why do you care? because the guy with the fattest training log wins the race??? oh yeah I forgot

IT DOESNT F**KING MATTER!

It's pretty common.

it matters because you get college kids saying they do 60mpw, when in reality they maybe are only doing 45-55mpw

Mit©hM©CoNNeLLTeaB@GNnut©ra©KR wrote:

it matters because you get college kids saying they do 60mpw, when in reality they maybe are only doing 45-55mpw

I don't think people overestimate THAT much. On the lower end, that's like going 7.5 and calling it 10!

I'll sometimes round up, but just for ease of calculating mileage in my head... like if I go check how far I went on mapmyrun and it's 12.8 km, I'll probably just count it as 13. Maybe the next day I'll run x.2 km, and it'll work out.

FWIW I usually round down Monday thru Saturday (I do the same few runs and know them within 1/4 mile), then round up on Sunday. I might go 17.low on Sunday and call it 18. I probably record two fewer miles per week than I run in an 80 mile week.

Badgers...? What Badgers...? wrote:

Of course, this is why Badger Miles are so widely used...

We have a winner.

I just use 7:30 mins/mile no matter the pace on a given week during base phase, as this is probably a good average. As I get closer to a race, I may move it closer to 7:00 pace.

I use a Garmin, so my log is precise and accurate to the hundredth of mile!

When I was in high school, I was very anal about how much I was running. I had a few loops that I always ran and measured them both in the car and online. I was running over 70mpw. My teammates all thought they were running 50-60mpw, but even when they just added up their daily mileages (which they probably overestimated in the first place) it only added up to 35mpw or so. How anyone can be that delusional about how much they're running is beyond me. I also had a teammate in college who always thought he was running like 5:30 pace on easy runs or something. When you'd measure online the loop you ran with him and it came out to be 2.5 miles less than he thought it was, he'd just say, "oh, well that's not accurate because it uses straight lines." I think he dropped out.