Settle this debate: is it right or wrong to stop your watch at traffic lights, drinking fountains, or other urban obstacles while on a training run?
Settle this debate: is it right or wrong to stop your watch at traffic lights, drinking fountains, or other urban obstacles while on a training run?
Normally I would stop my watch for those things, but lately I have been terrible at remembering to start it again and will realize it later in the run..which just annoys me because I don't know how far I have gone. So I don't stop it anymore.
I say stop but does it really matter enough to debate. Stopping for lights is kind of weak just run around them.
I don't wear a watch
No. I use the autopause function, so the watch does it on its own. This is 2018!
yes you stop it. Why add 20 seconds to your pace of your garmin?
Depends on the run. For easy runs, I don't much care what my pace is. If I'm trying to impress my followers on strava, then yes I stop it (I don't fully trust the auto-pause ).
No need to stop it. Strava will strip it out anyways. Plus I have no need to make it appear that I'm as fast as possible on my training runs; that's what races are for.
Traffic Cop wrote:
Settle this debate: is it right or wrong to stop your watch at traffic lights, drinking fountains, or other urban obstacles while on a training run?
Do what you want to do.
I stop (or use auto stop on my Garmin).
floaty free feeling wrote:
I don't wear a watch
+1 and i don't run through traffic lights
seikosha wrote:
No need to stop it. Strava will strip it out anyways. Plus I have no need to make it appear that I'm as fast as possible on my training runs; that's what races are for.
+1000
I train with a heart rate monitor, so personally I don't mind letting my watch record as I wait for a few moments. I try to avoid routes with stoplights, so at worst my average pace is maybe 10-15 seconds slower per mile. Strava has "moving time", imo though you can't really say you ran 5 miles at 7 minute pace if you were actually out there for 36 minutes :P
I am interested in how long I am running, not how long I am standing, so yes I stop it.
asdfasdfsfd wrote:
I am interested in how long I am running, not how long I am standing, so yes I stop it.
Same here.
On my regular routes I have a good enough sense of how long the lights are that I'll run around the corner a ways and come back to hit the light when it gives me a walk sign. If I'm traveling or running somewhere I've never been I'll stop the watch, because most likely I am basing how long of a run to do on time not distance.
Don't stop the watch and instead play Human Frogger.
When I was younger, much younger, I was so anal about timing my runs that one day I tripped while running on a trail and stopped my watch before I hit the ground.
seikosha wrote:
No need to stop it. Strava will strip it out anyways. Plus I have no need to make it appear that I'm as fast as possible on my training runs; that's what races are for.
Whoa we have a bad a$$ over here!