sidewalk does NOT = treadmill
yes okay see how my hand is NOT raised?!
oy.
before you all roll your eyes at my sheer naivety, lets just review here for un momentito... i have never consistently run on the treadmill for weeks at a time, nor have i ever had an "off-season"... so going from one to the other... well.... i figured, cool. i can run on the treadmill for 45 minutes, easy, so that should mean i can still run around outside 45 minutes, easy.
ho-hooo, ooh... yeah.... i was wrong.
i set out for the golf course... quite appropriately, as i found out, because this same route was my first "intro to running" route back in the "i am not a runner" days. and i'd like to say running today was oh so much easier than running, for the first time... in something like 5 years... back in May. but uh... it wasnt.
okay okay. yes it was. but it wasn't as easy as i feel like it should have been.
the same corners became my same walking havens. the same light posts became my same "crap now i gotta run" death markers, and the same hills.... oh the hills.... they became, once again, my legs' nemesis...es. (i'm pluralizing nemesis there. if ya know...ya didnt catch that....chm. yes. grammer good....)
but i did it. and much like last time....there were no records broken, or PR's set... but i didn't curse the sport. or question my sanity in participating in it.
i just quietly smacked the back of my own head for thinking an easy 45 minute run on the treadmill = an easy 45 minute run outside.
and laughed a little. cuz as much running as i've done in the past 6 months... man. do i still have a lot to learn!
Comments
DATE: 6:38 PM
For me running on the treadmill is a lot tougher than outside. I think it's the boredom and just feeling like if I talk or get too involved in something on the TV I'm going to go flying off. I'm getting better though, it's been about 2 weeks since I've nearly gone straight off the back and about a week since I nearly tripped off it while talking and running at the same time!
Posted by: Rae | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM
DATE: 12:27 PM
nemesi, perhaps?i have lots of practice with that word. hills and me do NOT get along...
Posted by: Curly Su | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM
DATE: 9:13 AM
Interesting. I would rather be beaten up than have to run on a treadmilll ... but maybe it's just this particular treadmill here at work that's cause of extreme emotions ... i hate it with an all-consuming hatred. Maybe because it's not so easy to adjust your pace on the treadmill? and there's all those little numbers everywhere telling you how SLOW you are going????who knows.I hear the whole running thing gets easier. heh.
Posted by: jeanne | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM
DATE: 5:23 AM
I agree with ben. the boredom factor on the treadmill makes it seem 100% harder than any run i could do outside. but then i've been told (by friends) that i might have ADD and that could just add to the monotony of the treadmill :)
Posted by: Amy | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM
DATE: 2:54 PM
I've been told that if you run on a treadmill, you should set it at a 2% uphill angle to simulate the push-off that you have when running outside (on level ground).Running on a treadmill is easier than "real" running, but it seems so much harder to me with the "boredom factor". I would much rather deal with real hills, wind, snow, rain, etc., than with the mindless droning of a dreadmill, IMHO.
Posted by: Ben, aka BadBen | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM
DATE: 2:49 PM
LOL! It's different, as opposed to easy or hard. Different muscles give different feel. Running outside engages muscles you don't use as much on the treadmill.A good way to train is to raise the treadmill incline to .5 or 1% grade. Of course it still engages different muscles than running outside but it's more effort that is more akin to running outdoors.Good luck!
Posted by: J | July 4, 2006 8:03 PM