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Paul N Feb 2020 7:47am, 26 Feb 2020 737 posts	Quote Pin Paul N I keep to miles but have developed a habit of hitting the lap button at every KM marker for Parkrun
TeeBee Feb 2020 7:56am, 26 Feb 2020 5,827 posts	Quote Pin TeeBee I swap between depending on the session in doing. Ditto lap times. Fetch is set up for miles, though.
TeeBee Feb 2020 7:56am, 26 Feb 2020 5,828 posts	Quote Pin TeeBee I'm doing
Sigh Feb 2020 8:56am, 26 Feb 2020 5,621 posts	Quote Pin Sigh I have my watch in km as that's what I started with, and I know my pace in km's rather than miles. My Garmin account is in km and Fetch is in Miles.
larkim Feb 2020 9:01am, 26 Feb 2020 10,452 posts	Quote Pin larkim I've only taught myself to think in pace per mile so I leave mine in miles. I also like the way it breaks a parkrun into "the easy bit", "the getting harder bit", "the dig in you're nearly there bit" and "the sprint to the line". Not sure why I stick with old fashioned miles, as I'm more a metric sort of person normally, but miles just feel "right" for running.
Velociraptor Feb 2020 9:23am, 26 Feb 2020 45,395 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor I run in miles except on my treadmill, which is set to kilometres but it doesn't matter because I do my treadmill runs in round units of time rather than by distance. I have a picture of what various minutes-per-mile paces "mean" and I don't have that for kilometres at all.
JJJ Feb 2020 9:26am, 26 Feb 2020 119 posts	Quote Pin JJJ Tip for your first run - take it very easy so you have a chance of at least 1 PB! I had a really good run week 1 and it took a year or more before I beat it!
Badger Feb 2020 10:51am, 26 Feb 2020 11,959 posts	Quote Pin Badger I can do 5k and 10k paces in my head but that's it. Usually set my watch to km for those races. Everything else I still have to do in miles.
Akie Feb 2020 10:57am, 26 Feb 2020 805 posts	Quote Pin Akie Same as Badger with 5K and 10K paces in a race but did my maths wrong once when I was quite tired at 7K. Thought I'd lost 30secs to target but turns out Id added wrong and was actually 30secs up so worked out well in the end.
Lip Gloss Feb 2020 11:00am, 26 Feb 2020 38,448 posts	Quote Pin Lip Gloss I never look at my watch when running except when it beeps at each mile...I have no idea about pacing