Metric or Imperial?

Baggirshorts · 16-11-2015 05:06PM #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 05:12PM

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

topcat77 · 16-11-2015 05:13PM

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 05:21PM

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 05:21PM

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 05:23PM

In the interest of balance - miles all the way

Clearlier · 16-11-2015 05:34PM

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 05:34PM

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 05:38PM

As Arthur Lydiard would say "Miles Make Champions"

Baggirshorts · 16-11-2015 05:41PM

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 05:45PM

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

Sunny Dayz · 16-11-2015 06:18PM

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 06:22PM

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 06:28PM

Miles of course, none of those ridiculous km.

Firedance · 16-11-2015 06:35PM

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 06:44PM

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 07:55PM

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 07:59PM

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

yaboya1 · 16-11-2015 08:28PM

Imperial units are miles better.

corny · 16-11-2015 08:41PM

Kms are gay!

SausageDogDave · 16-11-2015 08:43PM

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

chrislad · 16-11-2015 08:47PM

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 08:52PM

SausageDogDave wrote: »

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

French?

Pherekydes · 16-11-2015 09:19PM

S.I. units for me.

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

annapr · 16-11-2015 09:41PM

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..

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