Running/pace times on MFP

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  • PaulHofemann
    PaulHofemann Posts: 1
    Simple solution - Increase your actual running pace to 10 minutes/mile.

    (Or get a Fit Bit monitor)
  • AlessisMore
    AlessisMore Posts: 179 Member
    A little off topic but a great site for keeping track of your runs (lots of nerdy stats) as well as other workouts is

    www.runningahead.com. I log everything there--runs, bike rides, weight training....it keeps track of everything.
  • montana_girl
    montana_girl Posts: 1,403 Member
    Create your own. Do you use HRM? Then you can log the cals.

    ^^This. I have created a lot of my own pace times then use the calories indicated on my HRM.
  • PeakToValley
    PeakToValley Posts: 8 Member
    For me, the difference in calories burned (according to MFP) between 5 miles run at a 10 min pace vs. 11.5 min pace is only 23 calories. So, at that level I'm not worried about it...nothing I'm doing needs to be tracked that precisely!
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    Yep... calories per mile is pretty much the same at any running pace, so the easiest way would be to log it by the minute at a 10 minute mile pace. So no matter if you ran 5 miles in 55 minutes at 5.5mph, or 45 minutes at 6.7mph, just add a zero to the miles and log it at 50 minutes at 6mph.
  • whitneymws
    whitneymws Posts: 35 Member
    Thanks for all the input guys, wow! I'm not really trying to lose much more weight at this point. (I mean hey, I wouldn't complain if I lost a few more but who wouldn't, right? It's not my end-goal now though)

    But I'm on MFP just to keep a weekly record of my weight and really more to keep track of my fitness. So it's not so much really about how many calories I burned (sorry should have said that from the get-go) but keeping an accurate diary of what pace I ran and how far, etc. I'm trying to run a little bit faster/a little bit longer so I like having the long-term diary of everything I do fitness wise.

    Definitely gonna check out some of the sites you guys recommended! But prob gonna stick with my Nike+GPS - it's free and I like that it chimes in each mile to tell me my pace.

    Oh and I only run outside or on an indoor track. Can't run the treadmill for some reason - it's just not in me, I always feel like I'm going to fall off. :-)
  • LeilaFace
    LeilaFace Posts: 390 Member
    Thanks for all the input guys, wow! I'm not really trying to lose much more weight at this point. (I mean hey, I wouldn't complain if I lost a few more but who wouldn't, right? It's not my end-goal now though)

    But I'm on MFP just to keep a weekly record of my weight and really more to keep track of my fitness. So it's not so much really about how many calories I burned (sorry should have said that from the get-go) but keeping an accurate diary of what pace I ran and how far, etc. I'm trying to run a little bit faster/a little bit longer so I like having the long-term diary of everything I do fitness wise.

    Definitely gonna check out some of the sites you guys recommended! But prob gonna stick with my Nike+GPS - it's free and I like that it chimes in each mile to tell me my pace.

    Oh and I only run outside or on an indoor track. Can't run the treadmill for some reason - it's just not in me, I always feel like I'm going to fall off. :-)

    You Rock, way to be excited about fitness and running :)

    If calories burned isn't that important then I say just enter your pace and time manually and get a ballpark figure of calories burned and just put it in there. That's honestly what I do because I want to keep an accurate track of my paces and time. I've entered various paces on my own on MFP.

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