How to record Intervals (Read 40 times)

That's interesting, wcrunner -- allow me reflect back to be sure I'm understanding how you approach it:  Let's assume an interval workout of 5 x 1mi @ 10K with 3 min recovery and 10 min warm-up @ easy, 10 min cool-down @ easy.  Are you noting that you'd log the workout distance as 5mi (the 5 x 1mi), and not include the warm-up, cool-down and recovery distance?  I am just curious if that's what you're saying.

That's interesting, wcrunner -- allow me reflect back to be sure I'm understanding how you approach it:  Let's assume an interval workout of 5 x 1mi @ 10K with 3 min recovery and 10 min warm-up @ easy, 10 min cool-down @ easy.  Are you noting that you'd log the workout distance as 5mi (the 5 x 1mi), and not include the warm-up, cool-down and recovery distance?  I am just curious if that's what you're saying.

No, not at all. While 5 x 1 mi @ 10K is well beyond me, I would record a workout like that as
10:00 w/u
5 x (1 mile @ 10K pace, 3:00 jog recovery)

10:00 c/d

Assuming I run 1 mile each for w/u and c/d and .2 miles for the 3:00 jog recoveries (total 1 mile for recoveries), I would enter 8 miles for the workout.

I'm not really concerned with the pace and distance of the recoveries other than the total elapsed time and mileage, so I don't really care and don't bother to record the individual recovery times and distance. It doesn't matter to me if my recovery is at 10:00 pace or 12:00 pace, only that it's 3:00 elapsed time, 15:00 total, and however far that turns out to be.