treadmills

[Margaret]

Can you recommend the use of a treadmill as a sufficient method to train for a 10k run?

[Tim Grose]

Running is so much more fun outdoors especially as summer is approaching (well for me anyway).

I am sure you can use a treadmill to achieve your purpose but you must have a very high boredom
threshold and be prepared to sweat like a pig after just 5 minutes.

Cheers Tim Grose

"Margaret" <margaretanne@baillie66.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:59ea839f.0304111032.7fab8eb2@posting.google.com...
> Can you recommend the use of a treadmill as a sufficient method to train for a 10k run?

[Eduardo Suasteg]

"Margaret" <margaretanne@baillie66.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:59ea839f.0304111032.7fab8eb2@posting.google.com...
> Can you recommend the use of a treadmill as a sufficient method to train for a 10k run?

Most 10K races are going to be road races, so best get some experiencing running on asphalt. I do
train for 10K races and I also use treadmills in my training, however. I use them mostly for
interval/speed/hill training, since I don't have access to a track or to hilly terrain. My long runs
and most of my tempo runs, however, are outdoors. It's a good idea to mix it up, anyway, for mind
sanity's sake.

--
ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º Eduardo Suastegui "Test everything.
Hold on to the good." (remove '701' when replying via e-mail)
ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,,,,ø¤º

[Tenkman]

"Margaret" <margaretanne@baillie66.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:59ea839f.0304111032.7fab8eb2@posting.google.com...
> Can you recommend the use of a treadmill as a sufficient method to train for a 10k run?

So as to balance out some of the opinions, I can give some positives about treadmills and training.
My 13 year-old son just broke 1:31 in the 1/2 marathon which translates into a 6:57 per mile pace.
He made real improvements over the winter as he trained much more consistently despite our cold,
dark, and wet winters. Now that the weather is nicer, he is running much more often outside. We got
a very nice, expensive treadmill so we all run on it (but not at the same time!!!) when the weather
is bad which translates into much more consistent runs. It can get hot (great in the spring as I
just let my house get below 60 degrees overnight and then run in the morning) and boring though.

[Gr0tt0]

Always remember Christine Clark? who qualified for Olympic Marathon training exclusively on
treadmills. But, running in the fresh air is so much more satisfying.

"Tim Grose" <tim@runtrackdir.com> wrote in message news:1050088978.484637@ernani.logica.co.uk...
> Running is so much more fun outdoors especially as summer is approaching (well for me anyway).
>
> I am sure you can use a treadmill to achieve your purpose but you must
have
> a very high boredom threshold and be prepared to sweat like a pig after
just
> 5 minutes.
>
> Cheers Tim Grose
>
> "Margaret" <margaretanne@baillie66.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:59ea839f.0304111032.7fab8eb2@posting.google.com...
> > Can you recommend the use of a treadmill as a sufficient method to train for a 10k run?

[Dot]

gr0tt0 wrote:
>
> Always remember Christine Clark? who qualified for Olympic Marathon training exclusively on
> treadmills. But, running in the fresh air is so much more satisfying.
>
>

While Christine Clark did *most* of her training on the treadmill, various reports that I've seen
suggest she only used it for speed work or about 2/3 of her training. (That would imply 2/3 of her
work was speed work, and I'm not sure that's accurate. Probably quotes from different contexts.)

More general comments on treadmill training.
http://www.runningtimes.com/issues/02janfeb/treadmill.htm

" U.S. Olympic marathoner Christine Clark... told a reporter with the Washington Running Report that
she only uses the treadmill for speed work, not distance training." clipped from
http://www.townonline.com/natick/news/local_regional/ntb_newnamarathontraining01212003.htm

"Instead of running more than 100 miles a week, she does 70. Instead of running on the roads
regularly, she does about two-thirds of her training on a treadmill because of the icy conditions in
Anchorage." clipped from
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/news/2000/02/26/marathon_trials_ap/

Her more usual training: "I try to stay completely off the treadmill after April. I don't get back
on it until it gets dark and we have snow, which is about the middle or end of October...Now, we
have a wonderful trail system through the woods which is rolling hills and dirt paths, and I try to
stick to that....I try to do one quality speed workout a week, on the trails here." clipped from
http://www.runnersworld.com/home/0,1300,1-0-0-3231,00.html

Somehow, I'd always had trouble believing an Alaskan trained *only* indoors, even in winter ;)
Actually, it was interesting to see that she does run trails since I seldom (never?) see her name in
any race results up here in recent years. Probably doing the big ones stateside.

Dot

--
"Success is different things to different people" -Bernd Heinrich in Racing the Antelope