W48x9 The Final Hours

Tim Seaver said:

Point taken, George.

I have changed the wording on the top of the webpages to "NH48 Winter 4000'ers in 9 days, 23 hours, and 13 minutes"

But I am leaving the W48x9 as is for simplicity.

Everyone happy?

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Tim Seaver said:

Everyone happy?

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I think the confusion stems from the practice of not counting a "day"
until it's completion, but I believe that is the established method of measuring
multi-day endurance events.

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When training, we round our training mileage UP. So naturally 5.7 miles becomes 6 miles in your running log. When racing, we round our finishing times DOWN. So when asked our time after a 3:10:57 marathon we say 3:10, or to be really brazen to non-runner friends we might say "three hours and change". Note how useful the expression "and change" is, use it often.

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Papa Bear said:

It's all about rounding. Some years ago I wrote a toung-in-cheek advice column for my running club. I talked about training miles and racing times and how to do the "rounding":
Sooo...

It's legit to say Tim and Cath did the W48 in 9 days and change! And using a proportional sliding scale, next year when he finishes his W48x89, Roy might say "W48 done in 80 days and change"!

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post'r boy said:

this all sounds logical to me.
this summer i'll attempt hiking the monadnock-sunapee greenway in 0 days!!!

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mavs00 said:

This new math is friggin awesome.............. I working on my next list and I just figured it out, so far I'm on peak #72 and I'm up to 3 days.......... Sweet.

Damn it, why did I have to do those overnights early on, I could sitting at 0 days.

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mavs00 said:

This new math is friggin awesome..............

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DougPaul said:

Another way of stating the time would be "under 10 days".

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