My treadmill running seems to be improving. My real running seems to be getting worse.
What could explain this?
What can be done to reverse it?
Theories:
1) Bad data - for lord knows what reason neither of my Garmin watches work properly where I live. I paced my last several triathlon races badly. There is heat, wind and obstacles.
I have not run on a track on a cool, windless day in years.
So - maybe I am just as fast as always
2) My running form has changed in some way that makes running on tread mill easier.
3) Really bad pacing on real runs.
Example:
Treadmill run Wednesday (0% gradient)
1 mile warm up 8.2 mph
4.25 miles at 10.1 mph (hill runner says that's 6:12 pace adjusted)
2 minutes easy
4 x 4:00 minutes hard, with 2 minutes easy
4 minutes at 11.1 mph (hill runner says that's 5:37 pace)
Not devastatingly hard!
Compare this to an outdoors a week earlier:
4.5 miles with slight up hill, wind, 90 degree heat, obstacles and bad watch
Pace - 6:50
4 x 800s 6:10 pace.
Very hard!
All my outdoor runs are like that. There is always something slowing me up.
But at some point, I have to admit that "something" is me.
But why would my treadmill running improve slightly.
What could explain this?
What can be done to reverse it?
Theories:
1) Bad data - for lord knows what reason neither of my Garmin watches work properly where I live. I paced my last several triathlon races badly. There is heat, wind and obstacles.
I have not run on a track on a cool, windless day in years.
So - maybe I am just as fast as always
2) My running form has changed in some way that makes running on tread mill easier.
3) Really bad pacing on real runs.
Example:
Treadmill run Wednesday (0% gradient)
1 mile warm up 8.2 mph
4.25 miles at 10.1 mph (hill runner says that's 6:12 pace adjusted)
2 minutes easy
4 x 4:00 minutes hard, with 2 minutes easy
4 minutes at 11.1 mph (hill runner says that's 5:37 pace)
Not devastatingly hard!
Compare this to an outdoors a week earlier:
4.5 miles with slight up hill, wind, 90 degree heat, obstacles and bad watch
Pace - 6:50
4 x 800s 6:10 pace.
Very hard!
All my outdoor runs are like that. There is always something slowing me up.
But at some point, I have to admit that "something" is me.
But why would my treadmill running improve slightly.