How far do you run on average?

About 3 miles.

If you run around town, you can track it on google maps or drive it in your car. I know in the town I live in 14 blocks is a mile so I just keep count.

 

.................I just ran a 10k yesterday, and for the first time used something called a Garmin. It's a GPS device that you wear on your wrist like a watch. I've known of them for a few years, but hate gadgets, so I've resisted.

This thing was a revelation. My sister let me use hers, and set it for me to reflect just overall time and current pace. It can do a lot of other things, like measure elevation, heartrate, etc, but I didn't want a lot of bells and whistles. I just needed those two things.

It took a lot of pressure off, as at any point I could just look down at my wrist and know that I was on pace, and didn't fall prey to the idea that I was too slow in that last quarter mile and speed up unnecessarily, wasting precious energy.

This thing also notes the mileage of any run you do, so you know exactly to the 1/100th of a mile how far you've gone. Then afterward, you just download that run's info. into your computer (there's also an option on this thing to just read it off the LED screen on the gizmo itself) and it will even tell you your pace for every mile you've run.


I'm getting one. :hey

 

.............Costco has them for $180 (the 305 model). Just google "Garmin." A lot of outlets sell them, and they are a bit pricey, so it would pay to shop around.

Be careful though. Other people I know have other brands of similar GPS devices, and a couple of them cut out when you go into a wooded area for example, as it's satellite-fed and the signal won't cut through the tree cover. They just stop. :twisted: Garmins are apparently much more reliable.

 

Hmmm....I need one of those do-dads. I wonder if they would work here out in the boonies.

 

.........From what I hear, they work everywhere; you can even submerge them in up to 30 feet of water and they still work.



I have no idea when that would really prove to be a necessity, but it's handy anyway.

 

It just so happens that I do A LOT of underwater running. :bart

 

..............Ah yes, the Colter Run. :think

 

Don't forget your gps next summer. :yep

(I found another one for us, a relay....it's called Devil's Backbone) :happy

 

...........Quit picking the hilly ones!

 

It's not that hilly. It's only like, 11,000 ft above sea level. :bart

 

Im usually 4-6 miles just depends on how I feel. The other week I messed up I wasnt thinking clearly which is usually how I feel when I run because I do it to release my stress but that day I wasnt thinking at all. I wond up running clear into another county which was about 7 and half miles I just kept running I had that Forrest Gump mentality I just felt like running and I lost track of time and the fact that I still had to get home. I left my celluar at the house so I had no choice but to get back home via foot I stopped im like jesus how the hell do I get back home I tried to run back but my legs where shot to pieces after a few minutes and I just walked very slower then my mp3 its battery went so that sucked.

 

I usually do 3 miles hard runs and once a week a long slow one.

www.mapmyrun.com is great for checking distances and stuff