slower on a treadmill?

This is simply mathematics and has nothing to do with stride length. Let's say a belt is 8 feet in length, so with on revolution, you have covered 8 feet or you fell off or ran into the bar in the front.

I find treadmills allow for faster running (maybe becasue I just want to get off the dang thing)

slow ass wrote:

So, the treadmill, if calibrated correctly, determines your pace by the length of the belt and the time it takes the belt to make revolutions. This does not take into account stride length, which I think is why they are never accurate for me, and rarely for anyone else either. My stride length is longer than the belt, especially at faster speeds. If my stride length was shorter than the belt length my paces on the treadmill would be faster than on the roads.

Am I looking at this correctly????

do not pass go... do not collect a diploma of any sort...

Some days I weep for the future.

Don't let these guys get to you. You've got it all figured out.

actually you're going faster on the treadmill since you only have to move yourself up and down, not foreward. it's a lot easier.

and to people who criticize me: i don't see whats so hard to understand about this.

You're not going faster. In fact, you're not going anywhere. I think you mean that the machine is spitting out an artificially fast time given that you're just hopping.

The treadmill figures out your stride length and the number of times you pound on the belt per minute. It multiplies that times 60 and gets your MPH.

If this seems strange try running the treadmill but don't get on it. No matter how fast the belt is moving the MPH reads zero because there is no stride lenght!

And then Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy measure your HR...

Stride rate is irrelevant, the treadmill is a red herring!! You will take off.

Check out the link below. It discusses the myth that you need to set the treadmill at a 1% grade in order to make it equivalent to running outside.

http://mysite.verizon.net/jim2wr/id110.html

I've always found running on the treadmill to be MUCH harder than running off of it. Running 6:00 pace on the treadmill feels as tough for me as 5:30 pace does out on a flat street.