Distance with/without walking?

[Talulah1984]

I'm sure there was another recent post about this but I can't find it so sorry if there was one. For no-walking runs, do you record the whole distance or start after the warm up walk and stop before the warm down walk?

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

If you want stats for running, then measure only the running.

[MarkyD Graduate]

And if you want stats for 'total distance', then measure both walking and running.

Iannoda and I agree that there are no hard-and-fast rules. When I run parkrun, it's 5km and I time only the running (I will have warmed up beforehand and not counted the warm-up distance). But when I do a training run (intervals, or slow pace) I'll record the whole thing including the warm-up and cool down walks.

You've just completed W6, so next run is W7r1. From memory that's 25 minutes of running. I suggest that you record the distance that you run in those 25 minutes.

[yatesco Graduate]

What motivates you more - the total distance or the speed/pace? If total distance then include the walks, if speed then don't - your call :-).

I do include them but only because I can then see my heart rate recovery time.

[hannah141 Graduate in reply to yatesco]

What HRM do you use yatesco? I'm looking at branching out!

[yatesco Graduate in reply to hannah141]

I have ended up with the Forerunner 630 but it is quite pricey. The cheaper, but still excellent and almost feature equivalent Forerunner 230 (with chest strap) or 235 (with optical wrist based HRM) are great as well.

Others don't bother with the whole GPS watch and just get a Bluetooth based chest strap/optical HRM which pairs with their iPhone/Android. This is a cheaper option.

If you really don't like chest straps then I have heard good things about the Schosche Rhythm+?

Let me know what you decide

[PippiRuns in reply to hannah141]

Don't get him started, Hannah

[MarkyD Graduate in reply to hannah141]

+1 for the Garmin FR235.

[B0bP Graduate]

I only record the distance I've run.

[Monkey25 Graduate]

Started week 9 yesterday and am only recording the 30 minutes i run.☺

[pete_be_healthy]

I record both, but not from a distance perspective, purely from a heart rate trace perspective. That way I record total effort not how far. That said I'm doing it on a treadmill so it's a little weird anyway.

[Curlygurly2 Graduate]

I usually only record the running bits, but sometimes I include the warm up/cool down. It's pretty hilly round here, and I live at the top of a nasty one, so sometimes I like to see how long/far/steep etc those bits are. Basically it's your run, record whatever gives you the stats you want.

[DonNnaB Graduate]

I just record the running! 🏃

[GoogleMe Graduate]

Pre-graduation... not looking at distance at all.

Post...running distance only (using Runkeeper... I do like having a Fitbit now so that I get an overall (notional!) distance for the day including walking)

[Fiendarina Graduate]

I only record the running part. Originally I wanted to know if I was covering anywhere near 5k during 30 minutes running (no) and now I want to know if I'm running faster and closer to covering 5k in 30 mins!

[Lpcrudge Graduate]

If it helps with your decision - the map my run app allows you to delay when it starts mapping your run. You can set it to 5 minutes so can effectively press start and then not think about it until you finish, rather than faffing with switching it on when you need to start running.

[Talulah1984 Graduate in reply to Lpcrudge]

This is really helpful thanks!

[jt24 Graduate]

I went through the run/walk parts of the programme using the whole w/up etc. BUT as a post-grad looking back at stats I've found that was rather annoying!! I would like to see how slow I was compared to now! (Still slow BUT a faster slow lol!)

It doesn't really matter and depends on what is likely to benefit your self-esteem most

[PippiRuns]

I only record the running bits.

[Talulah1984 Graduate]

Thanks all for your input, I think I asked this question at the right time as MarkyD observably mentioned I am now wk7 and can start measuring distance for running only to benchmark progress.

So this morning I ran 2.95k in 25mins when my full distance with walking on the previous 25 minuter was 4K.

I've got some work to do by next Sunday's race for life!

[Ellesangel]

I always record the whole distance because I want to prep for a 5k.