2017 Mileage Club

There we go! Updated my runs for the year remembering which were in sandals and which were unshod. Easy to tell for the most part because if the map shows it was out in the country on harsh gravel I had the sandals on. In town on pavement was unshod. All tolled:

Sandals: 366.9 miles
Unshod: 321.4 miles
Trail Glove 3: 27.6 miles (sprint workouts mostly)
 
Ah, yes, gear! :)

Strava does have that and I just now configured it. They even have an option under "brand" for "barefoot (no shoes)"!

I've been using Strava mostly because it's what I used for MTB riding and all my MTB friends are already on there. The social aspect of it seems a pretty clever way to get people to stick with the app. What's interesting to me is a lot of the people I know on Strava used to post their workouts to FB but now just to Strava. I wonder if there's a bit of an effect of FB friends giving people crap for bragging about working out or something like that. Better to just post to a workout app for a more receptive audience?
Thats great you got it figured. I think originally there was not a barefoot option as I heard some people had to add that as a brand of shoe or something like that, but good they have it in there now.
Getting OT on the social stuff here but I'll add that I have like 2 whole friends on FB that care about exercise sadly so I only post big runs and races on my FB page, not the daily workouts, that is what these forums and specific FB running groups are for. But honestly the social aspect of it turns me off, but I'm no social butterfly. I hate being under scrutiny with every run, and some app telling me someone did this segment so much faster, etc. I enjoy seeing all the results of a race, when I am racing among my peers and do enjoy the challenge and sharing it socially. But when I am just out there on my daily run I like being disconnected from all that, just minding my own business and enjoying the run. Probably not the best way to 'train' but I do just fine I think.
 
I hear you on social media connecting you far too much to your friends and making running too competitive. It seems worse with running because it's a sport that's all about times. For MTB riding it's not so bad because how fast you do a section of trail depends on so many factors including how fit you are but also how technically proficient you are on turns, over obstacles and all that. Plus, everybody in off-road biking understands that your speed will vary almost entirely depending on what specific trail you're on.

I cringe to think part of why I struggled with my first marathon in the ND badlands was I was walking so much of it (just like everybody else because it was a rough trail and 100F) and I kept worrying "my time is going to look so slow on Strava." I mean, the winner of that race didn't even break 5 hours!
 
I'm falling behind. Sorry about that. Could use some help.

Anyone else have mileage to report for 2017?
 
@BroadArrow :
Wow, I just read your report, to me who lives in Europe it looks like a movie! Except it's not. :wideeyed:
Hope you won't have too many of these encounters in the future, it doesn't sound really fun to end up kneeling with guns pointed at you.... :confused: (Hopefully I won't experience this in France).

Clément
 
724 miles, 423 running, 301 walking.
Hi Clark, I tried to send you your Mileage Certificate, but I got a kickback from your email server, "email address failed." Can you email me your correct/new email address at [email protected], and I will send it out to you. Thanks much!
 
All Mileage Club Certificates have been created, thanks to Tedlet. He was a great help to me at this time. And thank you to Gueng for your offer to help as well. I emailed them out to each of you. If you did not get yours yet, please let me know.

In the meantime, please be sure to check out the master list here: https://www.thebarefootrunners.org/library-articles/mileage-club.23/
 
Wow, you people are inspirational. Never really counted miles before (never really exercised before) but the Apple Watch makes mile-counting simple and easy. Figured I'd come in here and "brag" but there are a lot of elite runners here!!!! Still going to throw my non-braggable numbers in.

2017 Mileage = 306 miles (492km) - barefoot outside, with some treadmill runs wearing socks.
 
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Hi @ll,

this year up to day only 450 KM running, while ill :-(

Regard`s,

cgnkiller

That's better than sitting on the couch if you're able. Hope you feel better now. :barefoot:
 
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