I just have a quick question: does walking count? for the weekly running mileage, that is. I walked about 4 miles the other day plus at work I walked 2 the following day. Should I log that?
thanks,
DPC
Of course, also get some rollerblades and a moped 
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Log whatever you want,
Just don’t substitute walking for running,
I wouldn’t count it.
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Brisk walk…I say log it. I know more than one person who could not run due to injury who kept up a brisk walk. It certainly is better than nothing…but, not something to log as a run.
When I was recovering from surgery I logged my walking as walking and kept the running total at 0 until I did actual running.
I ride my bike to work for a total of four miles round trip and do not log that as biking - for some reason riding in my work shoes and pants on my hybrid just doesn’t seem the same as putting in miles on the road bike.
Depending on how fast you do it, maybe. I swear to God we must walk 6-10 miles a day in a 12 hour shift at the hospital. And I’m still learning how to do the whole “nurse walk”, where they go about five frigging miles an hour! I have no idea how there are soooo many overweight ladies there when they move so much and so fast. Probably has to do with NEVER eating, or getting a lunch break before three or four (after getting there at 6:30 AM). I’m usually too spent to do anything other than swim when I get off.
It’s your log book so you can make the rules. I typically only log walking if I am on vacation and doing like 7-10 miles of walking a day, or if I am doing a walk/run building back up after injury. Figure that is worth noting in the log. If you do an Ironman and walk 5 miles of it, do you only count it as 21 miles of running in your logbook or do you count it as 26.2? I’d count it as 26.2 of running. Additionally, I count the walking I do as recovery during track workouts. (That counts as running rather than as walking - kind of like drills in swimming count as part of the total swim yardage.)
One of my friends who is an elite rower cracks up that I will count biking to a bar or to the supermarket in my cycling training. If I run home from a bar I also will log that half mile into my log. In my world it counts. He says it shouldn’t and that walking shouldn’t either. Well, those are his rules. YOU get to decide. That’s the beauty of being an adult .
-leh
I’d say… not really but it depends. Miles, maybe; calories, yes.
If you really get your heart rate up I would say it counts for some base aerobic work - not really sure how to quantify it in terms of running mileage. If you are counting calories, then it definitely counts.
I saw a pretty big improvement in my fitness from a two week trip to the Adirondack’s last summer but I only ran 5 miles once. What I was doing every day was getting my heartrate up and keeping it there for 3-5 hours a day while hiking around 4 mph with lots and lots of elevation.
When I got back home my base pace was about 30 seconds faster/mile and my legs never felt stronger.
I personally would not log walking as running.
Herbert
Do you plan on walking the at the race? If so then I guess it counts
“I have no idea how there are soooo many overweight ladies there when they move so much and so fast.”
Reminds of a study I saw recently that asked the same question about hotel maids. Why were so many of them overweight when they were on their feet and moving all day? Turns out it ***may ***have been because they didn’t think they were doing that much. When they took some maids aside and pointed out their activity level, those maids started losing weight (versus the control group).
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17792517
Off topic, but I thought it was interesting. 
Sure, walking counts. especially if you log distance instead of time. It takes at least twice as long to walk a mile as running one so the penalty for walking is built in. If you walk to cool down at the end of a run, that counts as special quality walking because your internals are still fired up.
I log the miles I walk (as miles walked). So far this season I am a little over 5% short of what my training schedule calls for run distance. However, it comforts me to look at the walk column and see that I have more than made up for my run shortage by distance walked.
An opinion fro very BOP.