Hey, I'm goin to the selection center on the 1st of july and i've been doing all my training for the 1 1/2 mile on a treadmill, i'm making not bad time (about 11mins 5sec) but my mate says that when u run on a treadmill you can run further and quicker than if you were running on the road? Is this true cuz with only a month to go i'd be screwed if my times not as good as i thought cuz i've been on a treadmill.
I'm goin for the 'Area systems op' in the signals by the way, anyone got the same selection dates as me?
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Treadmill or running on the open road?
Treadmill or running on the open road?
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Definetely true
in my student days (many years ago)
i was training for a half marathon
based on my times on the treadmill i was looking at a finishing time of 1hr 20.
Then about 6 weeks before the race, i hit the roads (of plymouth). And the difference was noticable immediatley, it was much tougher.
Used to run past a military base, i swear those guys used to follow me with the tracking of their guns
In the end, struggled through with a time of 1hr 30 i think, but it would have been much quicker on a treadmill
BUT dont worry, the treadmill is GREAT for cardio vascular fitness
just get a few road runs in imho and u will be fine
in my student days (many years ago)
i was training for a half marathon
based on my times on the treadmill i was looking at a finishing time of 1hr 20.
Then about 6 weeks before the race, i hit the roads (of plymouth). And the difference was noticable immediatley, it was much tougher.
Used to run past a military base, i swear those guys used to follow me with the tracking of their guns
In the end, struggled through with a time of 1hr 30 i think, but it would have been much quicker on a treadmill
BUT dont worry, the treadmill is GREAT for cardio vascular fitness
just get a few road runs in imho and u will be fine
yes though im dead at the end, for me best effort means collapsing at the end, on road i can do 6min30 for first mile= Jay = wrote:7mins...must be doing 5min milemattt_h wrote:im going sigs as well m8 your times will increase on road but sigs get 14mins so i rekon ull be fine, im around 7 mins on treaddy and 10 on road
oh im doing systems engineer got selection tommorow wont be in blandford till april though stupid full courses
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Know how to use one of these ?garfield wrote:any tips on measuring distances, i haven't got the first idea how i'm gonna work out a route thats a mile and half long?
Then you'll need one of these
Bicycle Speedometer (That also clocks distances) available from most bike type shops - Halfords etc
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Then get a piece of string and cut it 1.5 miles long(not 1.5 miles but the equivelant using the handy conversion near the bottom of the page) then measure said distance. The reason people tend to run 'slower' on the road is because the road will actually slow down when you do unlike a treadmill where it will keep moving no matter how tired you get. You just have to get used to actually keeping a set pace throughout the run. Besides how can you run on a treadmill its the most sould destroying piece of CV equipment in a gym ,you run your ass of for an hour and go nowhere ,either trying to watch TV while trying not to fall off or watch yourself in the mirror.
Then get a piece of string and cut it 1.5 miles long(not 1.5 miles but the equivelant using the handy conversion near the bottom of the page) then measure said distance. The reason people tend to run 'slower' on the road is because the road will actually slow down when you do unlike a treadmill where it will keep moving no matter how tired you get. You just have to get used to actually keeping a set pace throughout the run. Besides how can you run on a treadmill its the most sould destroying piece of CV equipment in a gym ,you run your ass of for an hour and go nowhere ,either trying to watch TV while trying not to fall off or watch yourself in the mirror.
I seem to go into a trance when on the treadmill - strangeCronkilla wrote:how can you run on a treadmill its the most sould destroying piece of CV equipment in a gym ,you run your ass of for an hour and go nowhere ,either trying to watch TV while trying not to fall off or watch yourself in the mirror.
Treadmills are ok for the short runs (3 miles etc.) anything else has got to be done across fields, dirt-tracks etc.
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