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Metric or Imperial?

  • 16-11-2015 4:06pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭


    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?

    What measurement is your current running watch set too? 65 votes

    I always set it to miles.
    0% 0 votes
    I always set it to Kilometers.
    100% 65 votes


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭loudymacloud


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 768 ✭✭✭topcat77


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57,378 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭kit3


    In the interest of balance - miles all the way ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭Clearlier


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭libelula


    Uh oh. UH OH.

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

    :D


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭Myles Splitz


    As Arthur Lydiard would say "Miles Make Champions" :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭Baggirshorts


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭MLC_biker


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭Sunny Dayz


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭chickey2


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,968 ✭✭✭aquinn


    Miles of course, none of those ridiculous km.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,009 ✭✭✭Firedance


    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...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,006 ✭✭✭✭The Muppet


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


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    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 :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,087 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭yaboya1


    Imperial units are miles better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,816 ✭✭✭corny


    Kms are gay!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭SausageDogDave


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57,378 ✭✭✭✭walshb


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

    French?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,202 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    S.I. units for me.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,936 ✭✭✭annapr


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭kit3


    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 ;) )


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭Myles Splitz


    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 :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭tipping


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭chickey2


    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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭kit3


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

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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭tipping


    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..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57,378 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,704 ✭✭✭✭RayCun


    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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭libelula


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,009 ✭✭✭Firedance


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

    :p:p I'm not THAT old (ok I am :o)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭Myles Splitz


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



    :p:p I'm not THAT old (ok I am :o)

    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


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭Baggirshorts


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 vinegar_zombie


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭kit3


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



    :p:p I'm not THAT old (ok I am :o)

    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 :o)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭shels4ever


    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 :o)
    Metric for the track miles for the road.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭martyboy48


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,595 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,968 ✭✭✭aquinn


    Ha ha 35 v 32. Miles is the winner.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    34 v 33 really, my finger slipped when I voted ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,006 ✭✭✭✭The Muppet


    aquinn wrote: »
    Ha ha 35 v 32. Miles is the winner.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,370 ✭✭✭pconn062


    Miles FTW


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭pistol_75


    Now I use neither. I just go out and run :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,851 ✭✭✭Cartman78


    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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭Baggirshorts


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


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