Talk:10K run

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As we all know:

K is first and full-most the mathematical prefix Kilo, meaning 1000 or 10^3... just like numbers mathematical prefixes are aribitary unless applied to a unit such as distance (meters, miles etc...),time (seconds), Mass (gram), etc...

Km means therefore Kilo Meter not "10K run" or put differently Km means a 1000 meters.... nothing more nothing less nothing in itself to do with running

I strongly recommend that 10KM should not redirect to this "10K run" but instead should lead to a disambiguation or perhaps even its own page

When you think about it, a 10K run could mean 10000 baby steps or 10000 trips to the sun and back.... or £/$10000 run

rant over

PS: you people out there doing runs for charity are amazing and I'm never gonna stop sponsoring you — Preceding unsigned comment added by MACHINAENIX (talk • contribs)

It could mean those things, but the usual procedure is to name things as they are commonly named. A quick googling of 10K run quickly makes it apparent that most people refer to this as a 10K run (or just 10K) and measurement mis-specification doesn't seem to stop them using it in such a way (also see kilobyte and kibibyte). SFB 16:26, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is this '10K run' as a 'ten kilometres run' some American matter or whole English speaking worlds matter? K stands for a thousand and nothing else, so this '10K run' for a '10 km run' is a bit confusing. 188.67.58.229 (talk) 03:51, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is very common in North America, Australia, South Africa and Britain (see contents of Category:10K races for a brief example). On that basis, it may be confusing to you only as a non-native speaker. Personally, I don't see that as a problem for the English Wikipedia. SFB 18:36, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Even with the lengthy explanation above, I don't understand the confusion. But then I am an American with a cynical take on Americans understanding . . . well, just about anything, but in particular anything to do with the metric system. The lengthy explanation above is exactly what is needed as positive support for the term being used, not anything to suggest a redirect is in order. 10K is a very common usage in the U.S. On wikipedia, we need to get slightly more specific for disambiguation purposes. There is a 10K (road race), usually called by that descriptive term, in most every major populated area every weekend of the year. Just for financial survival each has a hundred or more participants, many into the thousands. I'd hazard to say almost every one of them has 1-6 mile markers for the Americans to understand how far they are running. Trackinfo (talk) 20:04, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What's the point of these tables if they aren't even full? LordAtlas (talk) 04:25, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Why are these different articles? They mean exactly the same! --Infovarius (talk) 12:04, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No they don't. 10K is a road running event. 10000m is a track event.Montell 74 (talk) 16:01, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Are we counting downhill races? If we did then 26.01 would be the fastest time, achieved by Hillary Kimaiyo at the "World's fastest 10K" (It is downhill the whole way). I know it is not an official record, but it is technically the fastest. Should there be a mention? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CD9D:C130:113B:5BF0:710A:3537 (talk) 11:14, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a reference fell free to mention it with a note.Montell 74 (talk) 13:22, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, women who rely on male pacers are suckers.

I tried to figure out, which is the fastest 10 k time for a women without a male pacer. It came down to this:

It looks like it's Asmae Leghzaour with her 30:29 in 2002. But (!) in 2003 she received a doping ban, but her recent results weren't nullified. Then I tried to find a video showing Dibaba running the Tilburg 10k in 2013. There is no full video of the (womens) race. There is footage which despicts her during the run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJcdxSPFWpE
https://mereja.com/video/watch.php?vid=7c8426f1b
that cleary shows her running by herself with no male runner next to her.

Regards,
Da Vinci Nanjing (talk) 17:31, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Lower case k = kilo which means 1000.

Upper case K = Kelvin which is a unit of temperature referenced to absolute zero.

Lower case m = metres or milli meaning 1/1000 of some unit.

Upper case M = Mega meaning 1000000 of some unit.

Lower case mi = miles.

Why is it so difficult to get these right??? Correct nomenclature is important to save confusion.

A case in point would be mm or Mm. The first is 1/1000 of a metre, the latter is 1000000 metres, 9 orders of magnitude difference. Lkingscott (talk) 08:05, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]