Metric or Imperial?

Baggirshorts · 16-11-2015 5:06pm #1

I am curious....I have always run with miles on my watch but about two seasons back I changed to Kilometers...My lap is set to 1 x Kilometers. I recently attempted to resume miles but just find it annoying waiting for my lap time to beep...:-)
Kilometers come around so much quicker it would seem(even though there are more of them)

So I am a metric runner!!

And you guys/gals?

loudymacloud · 16-11-2015 5:12pm

I did the exact same thing, but just more recently. Im definitely a metric Man now.

topcat77 · 16-11-2015 5:13pm

I think i'd find it hard to go back to miles.

Went metric when i stared doing more Tri events.

So call me Metric

Maximus Alexander · 16-11-2015 5:21pm

I pressed the wrong button on the poll.

Miles are before my time, they don't really mean anything to me and decimal is convenient. Metric for me.

walshb · 16-11-2015 5:21pm

I think after many years we are finally more metricised than imperialised. I may have made up a word or two here, but you know what I mean. I still think in miles just as much as kms.

I may be wrong here but many of the training logs still use mile. Old fogies!

kit3 · 16-11-2015 5:23pm

In the interest of balance - miles all the way

Clearlier · 16-11-2015 5:34pm

Miles, miles, miles* which is funny because I'm metric in almost all of my other measurements. I just joined Strava and they insist on miles/pounds or km's/kg's which is annoying.

*I will change the setting for a 10k race though.

libelula · 16-11-2015 5:34pm

Uh oh. UH OH.

There's gonna be t-r-o-u-b-l-e

ps - km's all the way. They're shorter and easier.

Myles Splitz · 16-11-2015 5:38pm

As Arthur Lydiard would say "Miles Make Champions"

Baggirshorts · 16-11-2015 5:41pm

Interesting mix on the poll....just over more go for imperial then miles....
Even allowing for the complications faced by Max.....LOL.....:-)

MLC_biker · 16-11-2015 5:45pm

Best of both. Miles for training (following plan) laps in kms (cos I'm soo slow :-) )

Sunny Dayz · 16-11-2015 6:18pm

I work off Kilometres. But I think it's cos I'm newer to running (jogging) and the runs I do are parkrun's which is measured in kms, 5k's and 10k's. Maybe if I graduate as far as a HM I might starting thinking in miles.

chickey2 · 16-11-2015 6:22pm

Kilometres all the way! I briefly converted to miles not long before the marathon, but as soon as it was done went back to kilometres.
I use metric for everything now, weight, height etc. Much easier!

aquinn · 16-11-2015 6:28pm

Miles of course, none of those ridiculous km.

Firedance · 16-11-2015 6:35pm

I started off in km, been running in miles with the grown ups for the last 18 months but, I may change to km again for upcoming European marathon that's mapped in km...

The Muppet · 16-11-2015 6:44pm

I started off with Metric too but converted to Imperial when I started reading this forum and realised most people here talked in miles .

Cabaal · 16-11-2015 7:55pm

Used to use km when I first started running, but then anyone I ran with was using miles and kept asking the pace which I could never convert to miles in my head so I switched to miles years back. Been miles ever since

BeepBeep67 · 16-11-2015 7:59pm

Miles for training, but typically set the watch to kms for 5k's and 10k's.

yaboya1 · 16-11-2015 8:28pm

Imperial units are miles better.

corny · 16-11-2015 8:41pm

Kms are gay!

SausageDogDave · 16-11-2015 8:43pm

I'm not English or American so metric for me boi

chrislad · 16-11-2015 8:47pm

I used to use km, then switched to miles for marathon training. I'll swap to km for the 10k and 5k races, but for anything larger, I'll stick to miles.

walshb · 16-11-2015 8:52pm

SausageDogDave wrote: »

I'm not English or American so metric for me boi

French?

Pherekydes · 16-11-2015 9:19pm

S.I. units for me.

Originally French, but now adopted by the whole world, bar a few exceptions.

annapr · 16-11-2015 9:41pm

Km's all the way

delighted to see the poll is 50/50...

I've had to become bilingual to be nice to the imperialists on here but I still think in Km.

But as a country we are so mixed up about our measurements!

kit3 · 16-11-2015 10:00pm

Firedance wrote: »

been running in miles with the grown ups for the last 18 months

Is this an age thing ?? (Just curious, not questioning your statement

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Myles Splitz · 16-11-2015 10:05pm

kit3 wrote: »

Is this an age thing ?? (Just curious, not questioning your statement )

Don't think so, us whippersnappers (pconn myself and Timmaay) grew up on miles

tipping · 16-11-2015 10:05pm

Miles for me. I reckon it's a mental thing where i tell myself that running 5 miles is easier than 8k..

chickey2 · 16-11-2015 10:09pm

tipping wrote: »

Miles for me. I reckon it's a mental thing where i tell myself that running 5 miles is easier than 8k..

But you can tick off kms much faster!

I'm an aul one so I don't think it's necessarily an age thing, I do work in metric though so it follows on that I use metric in running. I wonder are scientists/engineers/medics etc more likely to use metric?

kit3 · 16-11-2015 10:14pm

Myles Splitz wrote: »

Don't think so, us whippersnappers (pconn myself and Timmaay) grew up on miles

Forget sometimes that such wise heads around here are only whippersnappers ! There were no Kms in my day .........

tipping · 16-11-2015 10:15pm

chickey2 wrote: »

But you can tick off kms much faster!

I'm an aul one so I don't think it's necessarily an age thing, I do work in metric though so it follows on that I use metric in running. I wonder are scientists/engineers/medics etc more likely to use metric?

Engineer here. Was metric when I lived in Dublin but it's all miles in Cork so go with the flow here. I was very confused in my first 5k race here as k races are marked in miles was wondering how I was so slow to 1k..

walshb · 16-11-2015 10:21pm

tipping wrote: »

I was very confused in my first 5k race here as k races are marked in miles was wondering how I was so slow to 1k..

That's Irish alright!

In my 5 k racing career I can't say that I ever entered a 3 and 1/10 mile race, or a 5 k race with mile markers.

RayCun · 16-11-2015 10:25pm

We all run in metres anyway - 100m intervals, 400s, 800s. No-one runs in yards.
But some weirdos count in 1609 of them rather than nice even 1000s :rolleyes:

libelula · 16-11-2015 10:41pm

Maybe that's why running for time is the 'new thing'

Firedance · 16-11-2015 11:03pm

kit3 wrote: »

Is this an age thing ?? (Just curious, not questioning your statement )

ha ha no, I moved to miles when I trained for my first half marathon which in my eyes was 'proper running'

Myles Splitz wrote: »

Don't think so, us whippersnappers (pconn myself and Timmaay) grew up on miles

I'm not THAT old (ok I am

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Myles Splitz · 16-11-2015 11:04pm

Firedance wrote: »

ha ha no, I moved to miles when I trained for my first half marathon which in my eyes was 'proper running'

I'm not THAT old (ok I am )

Haha not a reflection on you trust me, was more a comment on the jokes I have been on the butt of over the years here haha

robinph · 16-11-2015 11:06pm

Mix of both depending on what you are measuring.

Mostly imperial if measuring people, but metric if measuring things. Imperial if measuring houses, metric if measuring furniture. Metric for measuring area, imperial if measuring speed and distance, but metric for measuring astronomical distance or microscopic.

It's complicated.

Baggirshorts · 16-11-2015 11:07pm

Right down the middle!!! 28 each....
Funny that....I would have thought miles would have won out by a long shot.
Don't think it is an age thing...mind you, my car is so old, I still have to convert in me head if I am over the speed limit, as it is still in mph...LOL.

vinegar_zombie · 16-11-2015 11:07pm

I'm original from Poland so I have been using km since elementary school. Same for kg. I don't see much sense in using Imperial system since even all math books I used for leaving cert would use metric systems.

kit3 · 16-11-2015 11:36pm

Firedance wrote: »

ha ha no, I moved to miles when I trained for my first half marathon which in my eyes was 'proper running'

I'm not THAT old (ok I am )

Oops, I wasn't referring to you age-wise either ! I was wondering if it was more the older amongst us who had a preference for miles - there was no talk to kilometers when I was younger (seriously

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shels4ever · 17-11-2015 12:22am

kit3 wrote: »

Oops, I wasn't referring to you age-wise either ! I was wondering if it was more the older amongst us who had a preference for miles - there was no talk to kilometers when I was younger (seriously )

Metric for the track miles for the road.

martyboy48 · 17-11-2015 12:35am

I use miles... I had kms beat out of me when I started logging here

Murph_D · 17-11-2015 10:32am

Kms all the way. I translate for the metrically challenged.

TFBubendorfer · 17-11-2015 11:01am

Surprisingly for someone who grew up with km, I'm all miles when it comes to running.

All the training books I ever used are in miles and the coach I had used miles as well. Translating all the distances into km would have been too much hassle.

aquinn · 17-11-2015 11:32am

Ha ha 35 v 32. Miles is the winner.

Maximus Alexander · 17-11-2015 11:39am

34 v 33 really, my finger slipped when I voted

The Muppet · 17-11-2015 11:56am

aquinn wrote: »

Ha ha 35 v 32. Miles is the winner.

That's it everyone has to change over to miles now.

pconn062 · 17-11-2015 12:20pm

Miles FTW

pistol_75 · 17-11-2015 12:24pm

Now I use neither. I just go out and run

Cartman78 · 17-11-2015 12:34pm

KM's all the way for me.....find it easier for pacing.

Having said that I spend a lot of time whilst running mentally figuring out equivalent mile times and distances but that's probably because i'm a bit of a numbers nerd more than anything else :cool:

Baggirshorts · 17-11-2015 2:30pm

41-41...
Its like one of those football matches you played as a child that had no ending...LOL...

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