Running in Place Question

Depends on quite a few factors, but this would be the equivalent 6.0 mph on the treadmill. Did you feel like you were exerting yourself this hard?

Nysportsred wrote: »

I use running in place as a warm up to loosen up and get blood flowing so it’s not the work out itself, but I ran in place for 20 minutes as my oldest was telling me about her day and I lost track of time. The Fitbit said 2 miles. If I ran 2 miles running in place what would that likely average out to if I was running outside? 1-1.25?

You're right that the two miles is a bad estimate. Unless you're *really* into it, you're most likely not averaging a 10 minute mile by running in place.

It's harder to figure out what this would be equivalent to, unfortunately.

If you know your walking pace, that might give you a good place to start. Walking a mile in 20 minutes might be reasonable for you. We know that you're probably doing more work than walking, but not enough to run a 10 minute mile. So if we look at it that way, then 1.25 miles is probably a good conservative estimate, but it would depend on how much you were exerting yourself. I'm assuming a light jog, not burning up some linoleum

it would depend how fast you were running in place and how high you were lifting your legs, and probably depends on some other things, as well.

if you were moving your arms actively enough to be counted as steps, well, this is why i wear my fitbit on the waist of my pants. which doesn't work for all fitbits...