my treadmill said i was fast - i'm slow.

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Maybe your treadmill is not calibrated correctly?

You are not the only one that runs sick workouts on the TM and then not be able to perform in races. I think it could be a case of people's TM are slower than they display.

There's probably nothing wrong with your treadmill. But the times you indicated were not indicative of a faster 5k than what you ran. It's not the treadmill, it's the training schedule.

Because of my busy work schedule I usually do all of my runs on a treadmill (occasionally if I get off work early I am outside and love it). Leading up to my last race I was averaging about 50-55 mpw on a treadmill and doing my fartlek and tempo workouts on it. I ran a 10K on the roads in 31:33 after that training. Given that my 10K PR from college was 30:48 on a track (just over 2 years ago) I thought I did pretty well (I was also running 80-90 mpw in college).

So as long as you are training correctly and calibrate your treadmill you should be fine.

pro_runner wrote:

There's probably nothing wrong with your treadmill. But the times you indicated were not indicative of a faster 5k than what you ran. It's not the treadmill, it's the training schedule.

He said he was "doing a steady diet on the TM of sustained runs @ 6:00 pace and long intervals ( 1200m ) @ 5:20/mi pace."

Running those kind of workouts do indicate a fast time that 18:40. Hell, 6 minute pace is about 18:40 5k pace so there is no way that treadmill is correct.

[quote]s/b on runnersworld wrote:

ok - i'm a dad (36 y/o)... btw, my pr from HS (7 y/o)was a 16:58.

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You're 36 years old and your high school PR was set 7 years ago? Or are you saying you were 7 years old in high school? Please explain.

maybe he was 29 when he graduated?

Maybe be meant 17 years old and it was a typo...

But yeah, I think those workout paces are off. 6:00/mile is right at your 5k race pace which would mean 5:20 pace would be right around mile race pace. Unless your sustained runs are actually 20 minutes all out more or less and your interval workouts consist of 2 repeats, those paces are wrong.

By the way, improving from low 19's to 18:40 in a couple of months isn't that bad.

thank's for sharing your TM training schedule - i think i'll swap the beers for some more (3 hrs/week?) time at easy aerobic pace and see what i can do....i'll check in in the fall with any progress.