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General Category => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Rob Valdez 79 R65 on January 04, 2007, 01:39:21 PM

Title: Miles/Kilometers Converter
Post by: Rob Valdez 79 R65 on January 04, 2007, 01:39:21 PM

http://www.runnersweb.com/running/km_miles.html


Of course there are others, but this one is short and to the point.

Title: Re: Miles/Kilometers Converter
Post by: msbuck on January 04, 2007, 07:01:30 PM

Thanks for the sticky!  :)

Title: Re: Miles/Kilometers Converter
Post by: Ed Miller on January 05, 2007, 11:09:10 PM

Love it.  Of course as a distance runner I had a pretty good idea anyway, as I had so many distances memorized:

5 km = 3.1 mile
10 km = 6.2 mile
15 km = 9.3 miles
50 km (only ran two!) = 31 miles

...now I feel tired.
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Title: Re: Miles/Kilometers Converter
Post by: trolle on March 08, 2007, 04:38:32 AM

Let me be a little arrogant: 1 km ~ 0.6 miles which means that a given distance in kms multiplied with 0.6 gives appr. the same distance in miles.

1 mile ~ 1.6 km which means that a given distance in miles multiplied with 16 gives appr. the same distance in kms.

50 miles ~   80 km
60 miles ~ 100 km
100 miles ~ 160 km
anything above that pr hour takes a strong wind and a steep hill.

greetings from a sunny north

Title: Re: Miles/Kilometers Converter
Post by: DanielMc on February 21, 2010, 03:42:48 AM

A quick mention of the rather excellent and totally free calculator/converter from Microsoft (yes - I'm surprised too...):

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32b0d059-b53a-4dc9-8265-da47f157c091&displaylang=en

Title: Re: Miles/Kilometers Converter
Post by: Vegasrandall on December 09, 2010, 09:53:32 AM

when I lived in yerp  and drove in italy we used the Kilometers X .6= MPH
it was close enough for government work.