{"id":59120,"date":"2026-10-24T18:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=59120"},"modified":"2026-10-24T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:15:03","slug":"running-to-end-on-a-round-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/running-to-end-on-a-round-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Running to End on a Round Number"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

On Monday I went for a run. When I stopped the tracker on the Apple Watch and the Garmin watch I noticed the same number. 9.99km. If I had run just one more straight, or one more curve of the track I would have had a 10km run. I couldn’t restart the tracker to get that round number since it was too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today someone did run extra, just to round up, and I suspect that if I had seen 9.99km I would have run that extra 100m. One hundred meters is nothing. It’s a few more seconds of running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday I would have added an extra loop. I saw a post, and I was going to practice the Japanese change of direction but it was raining so when I pushed off with my right foot I fell forward as the shoe lost traction and I hit the pavement with my knees and hands. Luckily I was okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wasn’t aiming to run a specific distance. I was playing, experimenting with a new skill. I forgot that the floor was wet with rain, and that the cobbles could slip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning I wore trail running shoes to deal with the wet surfaces. It was the right decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past I did run to round a number, and if I’m doing a session then I will run to the session’s requirements, but if I’m running for fun, or the session is about pace, or distance during intervals then I will work to those goals, but rounding isn’t critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, if I had rounded to ten kilometres with the Apple watch I would have got a badge for the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am interested in reaching my yearly goal. It went from 750km to 800km, and now it has climbed to 1000km in a single year. compared to my yearly walking, hiking distances and cycling this not far, but when you consider that in December last year I couldn’t run due to knee pain, this is a huge achievement. I wanted to reach “social run” comfort level, and I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And finally it is almost certain that I will see that I’m close to a milestone distance and I will run for it, but recently I have been happy just to complete the training session, and now the recovery sessions that Runna recommends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>On Monday I went for a run. When I stopped the tracker on the Apple Watch and the Garmin watch I noticed the same number. 9.99km. If I had run just one more straight, or one more curve of the track I would have had a 10km run. I couldn’t restart the tracker to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[255],"tags":[5147,9036,1062],"class_list":["post-59120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swiss-walks","tag-distance","tag-rounding","tag-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59121,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59120\/revisions\/59121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}