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Jul 2016
5:50pm, 2 Jul 2016
1,504 posts
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RunningInCircles
I'd like to think that I'm at the stage in my life and my running where such arbitrary things don't worry me at all.
I run at the pace I like, where I like and with or without people, as I choose. I feel like I have nothing to prove.
And yet.... Those little odd numbers still creep in and grab me. Maybe it's vanity, pride or something else. But I am in the 100 mile a month group. I like that number. There is some sense of reason for it. It is a sweet spot where I feel I can maintain that level of running alongside a family and job, without ever getting hurt or feeling like needing to reduce as the years go by. Yet, I know full well that 99 miles would do the same job, but there is no way I'd finish a month like that now. It's stupid and irrational but the 100 a month is a number that has it's claws in me 
At other times it's been other numbers. Often as they get bigger. You start with 5K by beginning on couch to 5K, then sort of progress through arbitrary numbers as you run further than you have before. Kind of like earworms, some numbers get stuck in your head like catchy little tunes.
So I'd like to think I was above them, but just as we all like some shamefully trashy music of some genre or other that we don't like to admit to, I think we all probably have a weakness for some number or other.
My current shameful little weaknesses are listening to "The Sweet" this morning, and waiting another 67 miles for my training to tick over to 10,000 miles logged running. (It's like waiting for the dial on the odometer of a well worn vehicle to flip over into a new column:-) )
Anyone else have any numbers that they are letting into their life?
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Jul 2016
6:17pm, 2 Jul 2016
9,409 posts
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Sharkie
I do have numbers - it's always about being the 'other' side of a big round number. As I'm a sprinter my round numbers are in the teens and it's .9 I'm always after - but I was a distance runner once and insisted the first 5k I ran HAD to be under 30 mins and the first 10k under 60 mins. I am old and a woman hence those targets - but suspect lots of blokes are the same about a sub 20 5k for instance.
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Jul 2016
6:41pm, 2 Jul 2016
1,505 posts
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RunningInCircles
Oh yes, those time based numbers
You realise that despite being "old and a woman", you would still leave me for dust on the track. I need several miles before my body wakes up
I hadn't thought of those, but there is the 9:59 thread I see there. I can see how that can get under your skin in the same sort of way
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Jul 2016
6:41pm, 2 Jul 2016
34,024 posts
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Velociraptor
I've let go of round numbers for race time aspirations. In "Run Less, Run Faster", the authors make the bleedin' obvious point that it would be unfortunate to blow yourself up going for, say, a 3:29:59 marathon and fail to achieve the 3:31:16 that's actually your physiological limit.
Distances, though ... yeah. A proper abacusful of numbers. And I'll know I've got old and given up when I stop thinking of 7st 10lb as being my racing weight.
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Jul 2016
6:46pm, 2 Jul 2016
9,413 posts
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Sharkie
When I was distance runner *gazes into middle distance* or rather NOT middle distance - long distance, it was all about 30 mile weeks for a while.
And weight well, um, yes - under stones and half stones or under kilos ending in 0 or 5.
I will not be alone in this.
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Jul 2016
6:57pm, 2 Jul 2016
1,506 posts
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RunningInCircles
I haven't stepped on scales for a very long time.
But I did previously weigh on the heavy side of 100kg, and it wasn't muscle. Every 5kg mark i.e. 95, 90, 85 etc seemed to be somehow more significant.
Now I have better indications than weight. Put a bit of weight back on, but that is muscle since I have been doing bodyweight fitness routines. As long as the flab doesn't come back, I feel I am now free of those weight based numbers.
Number of pull ups or seconds in an l-sit though do look from time to time '-)
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Jul 2016
6:58pm, 2 Jul 2016
1,507 posts
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RunningInCircles
Look => loom
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Jul 2016
5:29pm, 17 Jul 2016
1,509 posts
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RunningInCircles
There's it out of the way
Normality can now resume...
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Jul 2016
5:33pm, 17 Jul 2016
34,127 posts
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Velociraptor
I can't work out how to do a screenshot, but my current cycling mileage is the reverse of your running mileage - 40001 
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Jul 2016
6:12pm, 17 Jul 2016
22,119 posts
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SPR
If on android power button and down on volume at the same time.
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