Experienced professional consensus on mileage versus time considerations for postpartum run-training programme
| Theme for run training | Agree or strongly agree (%) | Disagree or strongly disagree (%) | Agree or strongly agree (%) | Disagree or strongly disagree (%) |
| Time-based progression (eg, run for 1 min and walk for 2 min) is better than distance-based progression (eg, run 0.25 miles and walk 0.5 miles) | 66 | 34 | 73.8 | 26.2 |
| An ideal starting point for a time-based running progression is a walk-run interval with 30-s intervals of running to start, with 1–2 min of walking between each interval | 81 | 19 | ||
| Distance-based progression (eg, run 0.25 miles and walk 0.5 miles) is better than time-based progression (eg, run for 1 min and walk for 2 min) | 4 | 96 | 1.2 | 98.8 |
| An ideal starting point for a mileage-based running progression is 0.25 miles | 64.7 | 35.3 | ||
| An ideal starting point for a mileage-based running progression is 0.5 miles | 44.1 | 55.6 | ||
| An ideal starting point for a mileage-based running progression is 1 mile | 25 | 75 |
Bold text indicates consensus was reached.