When you log your mileage, how many decimal points do you include?

I use runningahead.com to map all of my loops and record milleage ran to the hundreth of a mile.

To answer an earlier question why would I count running accross the street? What would you do if you played flag fooball with friends? Would you just estimate how many miles you ran during the game and put that on your log?

Two.

I round down to the nearest quarter-mile.

I only have a few routes that I track to the tenth. Most of my runs are measured in whole miles.

I thought this thread was a joke, but it actually got the OCD, calorie-counting, Whole Foods-shopping, organic food-eating LetsRun distance dorks to respond. Amazing.

Charlie Freak wrote:

I thought this thread was a joke, but it actually got the OCD, calorie-counting, Whole Foods-shopping, organic food-eating LetsRun distance dorks to respond. Amazing.

Not only that, it got the OCD, calorie-counting, Whole Foods-shopping, organic food-eating LetsRun distance dorks who don't know the difference between decimal points and decimal places to respond. The numbers 3.2, 3.22, and 3.222, for example, each have one decimal point (that little dot after the three is called a decimal point, for those who aren't clear on this seemingly very simple concept).

Charlie Freak wrote:

I thought this thread was a joke, but it actually got the OCD, calorie-counting, Whole Foods-shopping, organic food-eating LetsRun distance dorks to respond. Amazing.

Seriously. I never realized how far I was on the relaxed, inaccurate side of counting miles spectrum.

I don't own a GPS watch, so most of my runs are estimates. 50 minutes? About seven miles. An hour of running? Call it eight. It's a less accurate version of Badger miles.

one decimal point wrote:

Charlie Freak wrote:

I thought this thread was a joke, but it actually got the OCD, calorie-counting, Whole Foods-shopping, organic food-eating LetsRun distance dorks to respond. Amazing.

Not only that, it got the OCD, calorie-counting, Whole Foods-shopping, organic food-eating LetsRun distance dorks who don't know the difference between decimal points and decimal places to respond. The numbers 3.2, 3.22, and 3.222, for example, each have one decimal point (that little dot after the three is called a decimal point, for those who aren't clear on this seemingly very simple concept).

Hahahaha! Nice!

Wait, you were joking, right?

Charlie Freak wrote:

Hahahaha! Nice!

Wait, you were joking, right?

I don't get it. I'm generally agreeing with you, but also pointing out that people on this thread don't seem to know that a decimal place is not the same thing as a decimal point. Why would that be a joke?

one decimal point wrote:

Charlie Freak wrote:

Hahahaha! Nice!

Wait, you were joking, right?

I don't get it. I'm generally agreeing with you, but also pointing out that people on this thread don't seem to know that a decimal place is not the same thing as a decimal point. Why would that be a joke?

You do know the definition of OCD, don't you? If not, an example would be someone passionately pointing out on a running thread the difference between decimal points and decimal places, and the importance of understanding and expressing these concepts correctly.

Jokes on you guys, you only use one decimal point in numerical values

I round up or down to nearest whole number. But thanks to mapmyrun.com, I just map out runs and do them over and over.

There is no point. Either round it up or round it down. Neither Mapmyrun or your GPS watch are accurate enough to worry about it.

bigtool05 wrote:

As for me, I have a few main routes I do that I've mapped out on mapmyrun. I record these to the tenth. Other times I'll just run for time and estimate the mileage to the nearest mile.

I log my volume metrically. I find that it tends to be more exact than mileage, and it happens to fit better for my current training. For example, I just use an average of 4:00/k, so that makes calculations very simple. If I ever want to know my weekly mileage, I'm a quick conversion away. At this point, though, I'm used to knowing my goal kilometers/week, so the need to convert is fairly superfluous.

Rund al'Thor wrote:

I use whole numbers and a plus and minus system. The pluses and minuses cancel out.

4 is 4. 4.25 is 4+. 4.5 is also 4+. 4.75 is 5-. 5 is 5.

So if I run 4+ and then 4- it equals 8 total.

I also don't know how long my runs are and or what my pace usually is.

I also used a +/- system back in the day, but I included half-miles. I did know my pace and some benchmark runs, so I knew closest whole- and half-mile distances. Anything between was a + or -

4+ and 4- would equal 8, 4+ and 4+ would equal 8.5, and 4- and 4- would equal 7.5 It worked well enough for me.

Thyroxine Shuffle wrote:

But this, which I discovered because its author just ran Comrades, is just plain weird:

http://camilleherron.com/2014/05/17/what-my-training-has-looked-liked-this-winterspring-wjob-marathons-etc/#more-5453

Fascinating. Fantatical is a nice way to put it. But we've all got our quirks so whatever works.

If I'm entering it manually, I just do the quarter mile. If I upload my Garmin automatically to runningahead, I just go with whatever it does automatically. I think it rounds to the tenth.

Thyroxine Shuffle wrote:

how many decimal points do you include?

It's not possible to use more than one decimal point, is it?

not sure about this wrote:

Thyroxine Shuffle wrote:

how many decimal points do you include?

It's not possible to use more than one decimal point, is it?

+1

finally a good answer

Well it depends how many decimal places your Garmin goes to. Because if you didn't track your run on a Garmin, then how do you know you even ran?