Treadmill Training

All of these factors sound good. So why would anyone ever run outdoors?

There are these disadvantages:

• You don’t adapt to weather. If you are looking at completing an outdoor event, whether that is a women’s only 5K or a marathon, the weather can have a big impact on how you fare. That is an unfortunate reality. If you are not used to the heat/cold/wind/rain it will affect you psychologically and physiologically far more than if you have adjusted to coping with these in training.
• You don’t get the fresh air. After a day indoors there is nothing better to clear your head than a run. To get the air before you sit down at a desk is also a great way to kick of the day.
• The road rolls underneath you on a treadmill - you do not have to drive off so much. This means going from treadmill to outdoors you will find you have a shorter stride and may feel some muscles are having to work more than they are used to.
• You don’t get to go exploring. By taking sensible precautions, such as running with a group or partner and avoiding areas you know to be risky, it is possible to use running as a great way to explore and see different parts of your area. It is possible you run five times faster than you walk so you can see five times more on a run than a walk.
• You don’t get to run the variety of surfaces. Many outdoor surfaces, for example grass or trails, are soft. The slightly uneven surfaces also call a process called ‘proprioception’ into more action. In other words your nerves, muscles, ligaments and brain all have to react to the slight variations each step, making each of them work harder and better at their job. By constant the even surface of a treadmill requires far less proprioception.
• Outdoors you control your own pace. You learn to adapt your pace and maintain your effort level (the more efficient way of running) when faced by factors such as wind, hills, or different surfaces. Your pace judgment improves this way.
• You can use outdoor features to make a varied session. Outdoors you can let your imagination run wild and use everything from hills, lampposts, trees, junctions, beeps from your watch or a word from your training partner to spell out changes in pace and what pace you are going to run at for the next section. This can be great fun and also the unexpected nature of it can be a good way to boost your fitness.
• Outdoors the variety in scenery and conversation with someone you run with can help you pass the time. You can get the run done without noticing the time passing.
• You can use a run as transport. You may be able to leave clothes at work, run in and shower before starting the day. Or you could be dropped off a few miles from the destination on a family visit and run those miles to fit your session in without eating into the day.
• You may only have access to a treadmill at a gym. Just stepping out the door to run is far more convenient.
• Treadmills are not always accurate. Try a few different treadmills in a gym and you may find that 12K per hour feels very different on one to another. This is because the calibration is not always checked and corrected regularly. You may get a false impression of how fast you are going.
• Your home is not usually air conditioned. This may mean you get very hot if you are training on a treadmill at home.
• You may feel that people do look at you when training in the gym or try to start a conversation which you don’t want to engage in. If you’ve just started a 30min run on the spot that is hard to get away from. Being outdoors and constantly moving no-one sees you for long – especially if you train in the morning.

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