After a variety of injuries, long works hours (coaching), etc. I am now trying to get back into decent shape. Just doing base mileage now but have decided to just run on minutes, not miles. I like the freedom it gives me to run anywhere plus I basically know what pace I'm running. Who else goes on minutes? Any suggestions or experiences?
since i hardly know exact measurements of my courses, i run minutes and round to miles.
after counting some 30,000+ miles, I have gone to minutes too after a few injuries....it seems to give me more freedom.
I record both in my log when possible. If I run for 35 minutes on a course I don't know, I will estimate 5 miles.
I always just divide my minutes by 7 and 3/4. It keeps the pressure off to run fast, as i know i'm only giving myself credit for 7:45 miles. Also, I know i'm not cheating myself in the logbook because i'm very positive that on any given run, i'm averaging at or faster than 7:45. I'll do this on any long run, or recovery run where speed is relatively unimportant. Tempoing i'll record miles and minutes, but its always on a flat measured course so i can get splits and whatnot. Hopefully I can retain my perfect lifelong injury record (knock on wood).
Yep, I also go by minutes, and then convert each run roughly but conservatively into kilometres to get a weekly total, I generally no roughly how far I am running anyway and then just alter it slightly depending on the pace i run etc. Say I run for an hour I estimate roughly 4min k's then minus a couple due to hills etc so prob around 13 k's not to important anyway as long as the training load is good.
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I usually put whichever i know. If it's timed, I put the time and i estimate mileage to show roughly how fast i felt like i ran that day. If it's not timed but i know the distance, i put the distance and estimate the time, for the same reason.
My team's training schedule is set up in minutes. One of the things that always bothered me (for long-term development) is when guys race each other every day in training. To get around that I went to minutes. I find that it helps us do our training more relaxed. For example, on our long days if I used to give a 15 mile route that I wanted relaxed pace (say 7:00 miles) inevitably a few guys would hammer it out and be back in 90-95 minutes instead of 105 minutes. Now I just say, "here's the route, today's workout is 105 minutes, if you're back early add on until you get to 105 minutes".
My own logbook, like lots of people here, I keep both. Makes it easier to compare to 10-15 years ago when I was more mileage focused.
My college coach had a good idea on how to record mileage...Under 10 round down, over 10 round up. I've seen some logbooks that are in the tenths of a mile-way too much info for me.
Bofe.
Long, easy days--Minutes
Tempo runs, Marathon Pace runs--Miles
I record both so I know pace. If I'm running a course that I don't know, I throw on a GPS and measure it.