I ran 4 miles with my 7 year old--do I log the miles?

It's your training and your miles. Don't conform to other's perception of what a mile is. I personally don't count miles that I didn't at least run at a 8:00 pace unless it was a warm up or cool down.

I run with a female friend about once every week or two and always log the miles as a recovery run. My usual run pace somewhere around 7 - 7:30 and she runs 9:XX.

it counts for something.

Nope, family more important than logging the miles. Who cares about 4 miles in a hobby joggers log anyway. Get some perspective you sad turnip head.

When my daughter was that age, I logged every mile we ran thinking I would have it to remember those runs by. Unfortunately, Athleticore ate my log, %R%^&@#!

dadtastic wrote:

I'm inclined to log the 4 miles we did. Opinions?

You can record whatever you want to record, but, you need to ask yourself why? What is the purpose of recording those miles? Do you really feel it's training?

I do runs with my wife and my kids, more so in summer, that are very slow. I don't record them for the same reason I don't use a step counter or record walks, hikes, snowshoeing etc. I am not worried that those miles are either going to hurt or help my training. The purpose of those runs is family time, not training, so there is no need for me to record them. I'm also not preoccupied with mileage for mileage sake.

why do you want to? wrote:

dadtastic wrote:

I'm inclined to log the 4 miles we did. Opinions?

You can record whatever you want to record, but, you need to ask yourself why? What is the purpose of recording those miles? Do you really feel it's training?

I do runs with my wife and my kids, more so in summer, that are very slow. I don't record them for the same reason I don't use a step counter or record walks, hikes, snowshoeing etc. I am not worried that those miles are either going to hurt or help my training. The purpose of those runs is family time, not training, so there is no need for me to record them. I'm also not preoccupied with mileage for mileage sake.

That's really the question: is running 45-50% of Marathon pace training or just recreational activity?

Perspective wrote:

Nope, family more important than logging the miles. Who cares about 4 miles in a hobby joggers log anyway. Get some perspective you sad turnip head.

sub 2:40, even for an old guy, is still hobby jogging around here, I know, but I'm a numbers guy, I can't help myself.

recovery wrote:

I run with a female friend about once every week or two and always log the miles as a recovery run. My usual run pace somewhere around 7 - 7:30 and she runs 9:XX.

it counts for something.

Pics?

That's Great! Thanks for posting!

I run with my 8yo daughter. It depends on the run if I log it. Last night was just a mile so no. If we do 3-4 miles that is my second run of the day then yes. I suppose anything over 2 miles I would log. Really anything that supplements your training (which is all running) I would log.

tycobb wrote:

I run with my 8yo daughter. It depends on the run if I log it. Last night was just a mile so no. If we do 3-4 miles that is my second run of the day then yes. I suppose anything over 2 miles I would log. Really anything that supplements your training (which is all running) I would log.

I have something of the same mentality. It's a mile from the train station to my office. I usually jog it to and from work, but I don't count that. I remember reading "why we run" and heinrich saying he just starting running everywhere he normally walked. Makes sense.

The running certainly didn't get you any more fit, but imagine if you got injured and wanted to look back at things you could cut out but never logged your "junk" miles?