Whats the longest you have ever ran on a treadmill?

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Steve Spence did 3 hours long runs on treadmills while preparing for the Olympics. The reason for that was because it was extremely cold and it shortens your stride.

we had some treadmills in the basement of my dorm one year, and a bunch of kids bet me like $50 each I couldn't run a marathon on a tread mill. they never said how fast so I just brough an iPod, some gu and water with me and made like $350.

I made that up.

probably like 8

18 miles on the treadmill (it was raining outside).

But the 3 hours I spent on the elliptical trainer (again, it was raining outside) tops that.

I feel I got my gym membership's worth from that. And depsite the 30 minute max on the machinese, no one asked me to get off.

2hr 20 min is my most, but I used to do lots of shorter runs. Always have enjoyed it, but I guess that is my job. My boss and major professor (Bruno Balke) once did 50 miles walking on the treadmill, with only potty breaks -- somewhere around 15 hours. Ken Martin did a weekly 20 miler at 2% 10 MPH in preparation for NY when he ran 2:09 ( I imagine 2:09 is nothing after weeks of 2hrs on a TM ). Oh yeah, that was at 7000 altitude.

14 miles with no music. it snowed a lot and the roads were horrible so i had to stay inside.

I always hated running on treadmills but the treadmill became my friend during a 3 month stint in Balad, Iraq. I was actually down in Baghdad for the first 2 months and there was a beautiful perimeter road that I ran on most days but sometimes I would have to run after dark and there was no goddamn way I was running outside (I'd probably get shot by our troops before I got kidnapped or shot by the bad guys). Also, when it rained (I was there in December and it rained alot), you could not run outside because the puddles were lake-sized.

The treadmills sucked a nut because they were contaminated with sand; one treadmill I ran on would not exceed 5mph but then I discovered it would do 9mph if you ran right on the edge of the belt, so I'd run for 60-80 minutes right on the side of the treadmill.

Later I moved to Balad and was always working until dark. It was a lot more dangerous there and it seemed safer to be inside (yeah like the tent is going to stop a rocket). I ran 1 hour + every night for a month and I thought I was going to die from boredom. Then on the way out of there I ran on a treadmill in Kuwait City, then London, then a couple days outside, then in Whistler, Canada during vacation. I ran on treadmills in 4 countries within a week. Can anyone match that?

Since then I try to avoid treadmills but inevitably there are nights when I work too late and it is too dark to see outside. I will be running on the treadmill tonight (I'm in a hotel) and nowadays I go for no less than 80 minutes when I run. I just tune out and don't pay attention to the time. I do think it is easier if you are running slow on a treadmill than if you are running a tempo pace.

PS To answer the original question, the longest treadmill run I've done is 80 minutes but I do that about 2-3 times a week right now. I have no plans to try to push that out any farther.

I actually can't run outside by myself for over 2 miles although I can run on the treadmill for an hour.

I am a natural sprinter and just do not know how to pace myself outside. Yeah, that sounds strange but it is not uncommon.

70 minutes is my record.normally 20 - 30 minutes.

Usually i do interal training on a treadmill. It gives advantages and disadvantages. I learend to overstride harder then i already did by treadmmill training when i statred to run for the fist time ever. I was taking HUUGe steps for 15 km/hour.Logically it tired me quickly. Things have improved since. those 110 strides(both legs) will probably be 150 or so now.

The only advantage of huge steps is that when running outside they taught i was a born sprinter. while at the time my sprint was slowed and settled at 14 - 15 seconds.

except for that treadmill when taking in account to tep enough gives big improvements to me. I went from that 14 - 15 seconds year 1 to 58 seconds year 2 by treadmill only speed work. Only thanks to that i also learned to pass that annoying 15 km/hour. It was my born speed i think.When i didnt train i could run it but when i started to train i initially didnt improve(the first month).

tradmill runnign is a blessing in the winter.No cold snow,icy track, the only time in the winter you can sweat.

I also love the accuracy.

there are others who will probably agree with this -it is never bad enough weather to forego a run outside for the treadmill...ESPECIALLY for rain and coldthe treadmill is the absolute worstlast time i did it was 4 years ago, i was on a business trip in Norway in the dead of winter and when I opened up my luggage I realized I didn't bring running pants, only shorts, this was a real dilemma (the hotel had a treadmill) but it was about 18 degrees F outside. I tried for about 10 minutes to run in my shorts - but was beginning to worry about frostbite and that the locals would lock me up as a nut-case. sulked to the treadmill and did 30 minutes at 5:45 paceworst run I've had in probably the last 8 years, I count that to be worse then the run where I had to use my gloves as tp

Againtocarthage wrote:

Well its blustery, rainy, and trees are falling all over the place where I live. I have 12 scheuduled today and am not too excited to do it on the treadmill.

What is the farthest you have ever run on the treadmill?

Brandon Moen has put in many many miles on a treadmill, but he is not your every day athlete. Geb and Bekele could learn a lot from the "Big Moe".

I know that Sal is not a sprinter, so ... umm ... what?

Maybe 30 minutes around 7 minute pace, so 4 miles. Even a very shitty run outside (due to conditions, traffic, whatever) is better than one on a treadmill.

Brandon Moen once ran 21 miles on the treadmill, then somebody pulled the plug and he couldn't run anymore.

13 miles. It wasn't that bad actually. I just tried to take it one mile at a time and I covered the display with a towel so I wasn't constantly watching the clock.

one mile

the dude a few posts above had good advice. cover the clock with a towel and look at it as little as possible. if i run 40 minutes i don't look at the timer until i think it's been at least 20 minutes. this helps me considerably.

As crazy as it sounds I sometimes like running on the treadmill. You can make sure you keep a consistent pace and I honestly don't get that bored. I live in a metropolitian area where outside running gets just as boring due to the limited number of routes so it isn't much different when it comes to the boredom factor.

I have run 22 on the treadmill and honestly didn't mind it.

Most of my running is on the treadmill because I'm old and convinced that it gives my ageing joints some protection. My longest run is 13.5 miles. I typically run 20-25 miles per week, all on the treadmill.