Treadmill = Hard

Treadmills vary for each person. Some people can run faster on them and others can't. In general, I am 7 seconds faster/mile on a treadmill than I am outside although the treadmill makes every speed seem ridiculous. If I run a 6:30 pace outside, it feels like a steady jog. 6:30 pace on the treadmill feels like a 6:00 pace. Even if the belt of the treadmill moves beneath you, which can be seen as an advantage, normal runners can't just hop on and run 10-15 minutes at 15mph. It just isn't possible. I'm a 4:39 miler outside and I can only run at 14mph for just over a minute on the treadmill.

I feel like some treadmills are inaccurate. At the gym I go to, the treadmill's 8:30 pace feels like 7:00 pace outside. And when I bring it to under 7:30 pace on the treadmill it feels like 6:00 pace. It's strange, so I just go by time.

I find that most people, myself included, tend to think they are running a certain pace outside and they are really running slightly slower. On a treadmill the pace you are running is less in question. I find that if i go all out with a GPS out side its about the same as my max effort on a treadmill.

Treadmills get me hard, too.

It's always classic when somebody digs up these 6+ year old threads and you don't realize it until you see a post you made when it was around the first time.