"Junk" Miles

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Dooogs Jul 2013 1:26pm, 26 Jul 2013 2320 posts	0 Dooogs Thanks, both - I ended up attempting 5 miles at RP (didn't quite work for part of the first two miles due to absurd gradients and over-doing the downhills but went well in the latter half of the session). Not planning to try it more than once a fortnight, though - so every 6th or 8th run...
fetcheveryone Jul 2013 5:00pm, 26 Jul 2013 13284 posts	0 fetcheveryone I log all the runs with the dog - we only do a 1.7 mile loop at the moment whilst he's young, and it's stop-start whilst we fish him out of the bushes, or pick up his poo - but I log it all. Choose a suitable category for it, and you can always filter it out.
Chromey Jul 2013 5:03pm, 26 Jul 2013 12955 posts	0 Chromey Hahahahahahahaha. Poo....log. snort
Phoenix Lesley Jul 2013 6:34pm, 26 Jul 2013 4255 posts	0 Phoenix Lesley I agree Lord Fetch But I never put the time as they pee/poop/sniff breaks can add up as I take both of Clan White Fluff
IanRunner Jul 2013 11:38pm, 28 Jul 2013 717 posts	0 IanRunner In my opinion the more miles the better. I don't know where this junk miles thing come from, must be an American term. There are not a lot of top American runners. Once I read that Coe did so many extra miles at a certain time of day but they didn't count. What a load of rubbish! Anything I run is being recorded. When top runners are doing 120 miles plus you can't tell me that every mile they run is perfect. I try to run as much as I can. The most important thing I have learnt is running these easy or so- called junk miles at an easy pace.
Carlos Fandango Jnr Jul 2013 11:58am, 29 Jul 2013 220 posts	0 Carlos Fandango Jnr Easy isn't junk, mainly because they have a positive effect on recovery and fitness. Run those same miles 1 min/mile faster and they'd have little/no value, other than tiring you out. what we might also be demonstrating is that this is an unhelpfully vague expression that means different things to different people...
Pedro_Perez Jul 2013 12:18pm, 29 Jul 2013 851 posts	0 Pedro_Perez No such thing in my book, bad training yes but no miles are junk.
Pedro_Perez Jul 2013 12:22pm, 29 Jul 2013 852 posts	0 Pedro_Perez Had a couple of "I need a wee" stops during Sundays run and an 8 minute "potty stop at parkrun! ", it was quite comical to see my daughter sat on the potty watching and clapping the parkrunners, she made a few people laugh. Those miles are smile miles.