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Faster Outdoors or Threadmill?

  • 01-10-2008 12:54pm
    #1
    Tomthepost
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    I Know alot a factors come into play such as wind, hills, underground surface etc on this question but in general should one be able to run faster outdoors then on a threadmill.
    I aint got any measuring device for running outdoors but can do 5 miles in about 39 mins on the threadmill!
    Should I be able to do it the same outdoors?


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  • #2
    cfitz
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    Tomthepost wrote: »
    I Know alot a factors come into play such as wind, hills, underground surface etc on this question but in general should one be able to run faster outdoors then on a threadmill.
    I aint got any measuring device for running outdoors but can do 5 miles in about 39 mins on the threadmill!
    Should I be able to do it the same outdoors?

    I've heard that running on a treadmill with the incline set to 1% is the equivalent of normal running. I doubt there'll be a huge difference - I suppose you could run on a 400m track and check. If you haven't run outside much before, it might take a while to get used to pacing yourself, I dunno.


  • #3
    Racing Flat
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    I'd say so. I think a lot of the factors you mentioned like hills etc would be offset by the fact that on the TM you do not have any air resistance, so you overheat more. If you put a fan in front of the TM, then you need to add about 0.3kph (on the flat) to the speed of the TM to match outdoor running speeds. Others recommend going on an incline of 0.5 to be more representative of outdoor conditions.

    Why don't you just try it and see? Go out, run for 5 miles and see how long it takes?


  • #4
    geoff29
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    Hi OP,

    I do a lot of both types of running. For me, running outside is far faster. My 5k on a treadmill is never much faster than 22 mins and at the end I am totally destroyed. This is a result of the zero air and I get very overheated - could also be a factor of my gym which has no air going through. In real life though, I can easily run 5k in 20 mins - and regularly do 18 mins - which I couldn't dream of doing on a treadmill.

    On a treadmill, anything over 16 kmph becomes very difficult - think I've hit 19 before and it just felt so unstable. Yet, if you go down to your local track and work out a 16 kmph speed, you'll feel that its quite slow by comparison.

    So that's my view. Outside is much faster! If you can do 5m on the treadmill, assuming that you get over-heated too, I would say you'd get on very well when it comes to running outside - but like you said - wind, hills etc. this all takes getting used to - so it might not happen immediately.


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