Question about treadmills and pace per mile

Also had the weirdest sensation when I jumped off the treadmill and started walking towards the water fountain it felt like I was still on the treadmill haha almost fell over.

treadmills are designed and built by mathematicians and engineers rather than by runners so the speed setting on a treadmill will be either kilometres per hour or miles per hour. you will need to check to see which it is.

obviously, 6 mph is 10:00 per mile, and 10 mph is 6:00 per mile.

the easy way to calculate this yourself is to divide 60 by the speed setting on the treadmill. so if the treadmill is set at 5.4 divide 60 by 5.4 and you get (60 /5.4 = 11.11) which means each mile (or kilometre) is run in 11.11 minutes, which is 11:06

the example from your Google search gives us (60 / 10.5 = 5.71) which is 5.71 minutes, which is 5:42.8 per mile (or kilometre).

cheers.

I would never trust the calibration on a gym treadmill.

another data point wrote:

I would never trust the calibration on a gym treadmill.

I work on a military installation with several fitness centers, have a Y membership and have gone to several branches. I use quite a few treadmills with a calibrated Stryd. Virtually all the ones I've been on have been within 2% and most differ by no more than 1%. The exceptions have been when the machine was more or less broken.

my experience has been different wrote:

another data point wrote:

I would never trust the calibration on a gym treadmill.

I work on a military installation with several fitness centers, have a Y membership and have gone to several branches. I use quite a few treadmills with a calibrated Stryd. Virtually all the ones I've been on have been within 2% and most differ by no more than 1%. The exceptions have been when the machine was more or less broken.

So I am american so the treadmills probably don't go by km so if I was running on a 10.5 speed there's a good chance I was running at 5.43 like I thought?

NewbRunner wrote:

my experience has been different wrote:

I work on a military installation with several fitness centers, have a Y membership and have gone to several branches. I use quite a few treadmills with a calibrated Stryd. Virtually all the ones I've been on have been within 2% and most differ by no more than 1%. The exceptions have been when the machine was more or less broken.

So I am american so the treadmills probably don't go by km so if I was running on a 10.5 speed there's a good chance I was running at 5.43 like I thought?

I would say yes, there's a good chance of it. Keep in mind that there's no wind resistance so running that speed is easier on a treadmill than outdoors.

NewbRunner wrote:

So I am american so the treadmills probably don't go by km so if I was running on a 10.5 speed there's a good chance I was running at 5.43 like I thought?

At that speed it's more like 5:55 if you're 0% incline. You have to make up for the wind resistance. 1.2% or 1.3% incline is supposedly where it cancels out, so kick up the incline to 1.0 or 1.5 to get the same as outdoor pace.

Need Some Incline wrote:

NewbRunner wrote:

So I am american so the treadmills probably don't go by km so if I was running on a 10.5 speed there's a good chance I was running at 5.43 like I thought?

At that speed it's more like 5:55 if you're 0% incline. You have to make up for the wind resistance. 1.2% or 1.3% incline is supposedly where it cancels out, so kick up the incline to 1.0 or 1.5 to get the same as outdoor pace.

Not likely.

my experience has been different wrote:

Keep in mind that there's no wind resistance so running that speed is easier on a treadmill than outdoors.

Not universally true. Depends on how your gait responds to the moving belt. For a lot of people -- including me -- the treadmill feels quite a bit harder than running outside. In my case I seem to waste a lot of energy on vertical movement on the treadmill. (No idea why; and even though I'm aware of it I can't really control it.) Running 7:00 pace on the mill, for me, feels like low-6:xx on the road.

At the ‘5’ setting were you walking or jogging?

5 kph: walk

5 mph: slow jog

You can use this gauge as to whether the numbers are kph or mph.