c25k-- outside vs. treadmill... the quandary.

iplayoutside19

Outside

I got on a treadmill once to try out a HRM. I hated it, I don't know how people get near those things. I've ran outside when it was -5, I've ran outside when it was 110. I'll take both of those over the one time I spent 5 minutes on a treadmill.

angieroo2

Interesting thread. I despise running outdoors so I was thinking of doing C25K outside to get used to the pavement as I'd eventually like to run in a 5k race.

hahandel

I ran the first 6 weeks of c25k on the treadmill and then transitioned to outside. I didn't find it much harder physically, but I had a mental hurdle to get over running outside in public. I always ran at a 2% incline on the treadmill so maybe that's why my transition wasn't difficult.

I was very sore after my first couple of runs because of the surface distance. I was never sore after running on the treadmill. I started running on the concrete sidewalk but had to switch to running in the road.

I always ran at 5 mph on the treadmill and it's also what I ran at outside when I started. After a couple of weeks running outside my average is now 5.6 mph. I can't imagine going back to running on the treadmill.

Good luck!