My roommate and I got in a debate on where you will call a run counting towards your mileage for the week.
Personally, I\'ve grown up at anything under 3 miles is not worth counting.
He counts anything over 800m.
Do you count every run to the fridge/bathroom as part of your mileage? .5 mile your minimum? 1? 2? 3? 10?
1 mile.
I usually have trouble thinking anything under 4 miles is countable, but I will log it anyway just for the sake of knowing what I did.
For instance if I run 15 minutes as a shakeout, I will log the 15 minutes/2 miles just in case I have a good or bad race and would like to know what I did that day. This is pretty much only in a race scenario though, and on a training day would never run less than a half hour or 4 miles anyway so there would be no question of whether or not I logged it.
3 mi
Ahhhh...I meant that I don't count anything under a mile in my totals...for a minimum run I'm going to go with 3.
3 seems about right
4miles
anything else doesn't count
3
doo doo wrote:
I usually have trouble thinking anything under 4 miles is countable, but I will log it anyway just for the sake of knowing what I did.
For instance if I run 15 minutes as a shakeout, I will log the 15 minutes/2 miles just in case I have a good or bad race and would like to know what I did that day. This is pretty much only in a race scenario though, and on a training day would never run less than a half hour or 4 miles anyway so there would be no question of whether or not I logged it.
This.
I usually don't count any mileage under a half hour.
If keeping a streak alive, anything 1 mile and above.
I'll log anything 1 mile or over but mentally I don't think of it as a real run if it's less than 4 miles.
I usually count a run any less than 3.5 miles unless its the warm-up and cool down after a workout.
I log everything I do. I even try to estimate an equivalent mileage if I do something like play a pickup game of soccer. The reasoning is that my mileage calendar isn't a trophy, it is a way for me to track wear and tear and prevent myself from doing too much.
However, unless I am hurt, I wouldn't really ever do a run under maybe 5 miles.
I put full details onto my log of every workout (workout done and splits) so it is easy for me to go back and try to figure out what seems to be working and what doesn't. The total at the end of each week really is just for tracking total volume to keep myself from doing too much and getting hurt.
I tell myself 1 mile, but the shortest I regularly log is a ~2 mile shakeout. I also factor in the injury exception. When I am hurt, anything over 10 meters makes the log, although that is more for tracking pain levels than mileage.
Looks like 3-4 are the most popular choices.
What if you're a Crossfitter? Does that mean you're stuck at zero?
Or is it acceptable for them to count 400 meters?
anything longer than 4 or 5 steps. easiest way to get doubles in
It doesn't matter if you log your runs or not. You either did something, or you didn't.
Your body decides if it counts or not as any sort of physical benefit.
3 miles, anything less meh..
Like most people, I don't ordinarily do regular training runs of less than 4-5 miles. But sometimes, coming back tentatively from injury, I might have a week where I do 6 or 7 runs for a grand total of 8 to 10 miles. I see no reason not to record them; that was my running training that week. My running log is the place where I record my running training. Duh.
I stopped logging my runs about 9 months ago. I've done some 2 milers since then (first run 2 days after a 'thon being one example). I think it counted as a run.
If you head out for a mile run just to say you ran that day to preserve a streak, I say that is kind of lame.