treadmills
crazcarl said:
treadmill running time is not close to real running times... use treadmill to get in shape, but do actual running whenever you can aswell.
it is true running on roads, grass etc is slightly different to treadmills, depending on the machine, but I do a lot of both and treadmills are excellent in their own way. If you set the gradient just slightly up at 0.5-1.0% that will usually mimic the exertion levels somewhere similar to road running IMO.
there's a lot more "give" on treadmills and so much less chance of injuries (apart from falling off it obviously
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being a road runner before i came to treadmill training I always measured my running pace at "minute/miles" i.e. a six minute mile pace, 8 min mile pace etc. and that's how i tend to train on treadmills, and have done km/hour to minute/mile conversions to allow training at my road pace.
these are as below.
10km per hour = 10minute mile pace. i.e. pace to run one mile in ten mins
11km/h = 8.75 min mile
12km/h = 8 min mile
14 km/h = 7 min mile (6.9 to be precise)
16km/hour = 6 min mile
20km/hour = 4min 50sec mile
and 24 km/h = 4min mile.
as for working out distances run on real terrain, if your not using pedometer or GPS technolgy, the old methods the best, get the local OS map ideally, or a reasonably accurate map, work out the scale, and measure your route with string, then measure against the map scale to give you your distance covered.
or clock it on a bike or car
