what has happened to me? in my ripe age of 30 I’ve turned into a big wimp…I used to handle the cold and feel like some kind of a hero out there, running away, regardless.
now, when it hits below 40, no questions, I’m inside on the tread
so, my question is: how well does the tread transfer to road? I should know this answer (which is, it takes time to adjust back to the road, for me anyway), but I’m wondering if anyone knows more about this and reasons.
thanks!
kittycat
Good thing you’re not up here in the Great White North today. Was 0 F (-18 C). Now that’s too damn cold, even for us.
Didn’t a female runner from Alaska win the US Olympic marathon trials the other year after training exclusively on a treadmill??
I just checked and her name was Chris Clark she won the trials in 2000.
use 1% grade, it is more like road running. Otherwise no problems, I don’t use it much I just layer and go outside.
Sometimes I’m a little slower on the treadmill/but I’m probably distracted (TV, radio, chicks in tight clothes)
It’s 13 with a wind chill of -1 right now, and I have to go outside. I hate Illinois. 40 sounds pretty good to me!
-C
I am ok at 40 but hear what you are saying, running outside in 3 layers and freezing just doesn’t do it for me. It is the darkness that gets me, just can’t do it. I read a town in Minn almost hit -60 !
Not to be mean,but…suck it up!
I wish I could have 40 degs…
I’m over 40 yrs old…and as long as its above 5…I’ll run w/ my hi tech clothes.
Went out this morning for a base run of 14 miles in 18 degree,but, sunny weather…feel guiltless when I sign on to this forum in the afternoon.
You can do it…besides,its base building time…go long and slow.
You’ll feel better about the winter.
I think we’re in the the same artic-air mass here in KS/MO.
I did a 1:50 LSD run yesterday in low single digits with glare ice everywhere!
neoprene facemasks and those slip-on-rubber-running spikes that RoadRunner carry are godsends.
If you have all the right cold-weather gear the only thing stopping you is “cold-weather induced lethargy”
well, I was jesting about 40 degrees. I’d say when it gets below 30, then I’m wimping out. today was 15…but with ice on the ground, I just won’t risk it (especially coming off a knee injury 3 months ago).
that changes everything…let that knee fully heal.!!!
although you might try some light running underwater if you have access to a pool…or,just live vicariously thru us on this forum for now…nothing wrong with that!
I’ve got to agree with you on that one. I’m a total wimp when it comes to the cold, but it used to never bother me. I’m 37 now, so I’m blaming it on my age. I did a run last week when it hit -1 C and I froze my tush off! I can handle above freezing ok, so I’m on the t/m until March at least. At this point in my training schedule, I just want to get some good aerobic sessions in, so I don’t worry too much about it. It always takes me about a week or so to get used to the road again, but they I adjust pretty quickly.
I also like the t/m for intervals. I do 5 minutes on, 5 minutes off where I up the speed a bit. It’s a nice change of pace and it’s nice to have control over exactly how fast you’re going unlike the track where I slow down sometimes if I’m not paying attention.
I say doing a workout on the t/m is better than suffering in the cold or skipping it because I’m too wimpy.
D.
bah, i had a GREAT run today…at a balmy -18 C…it was actually pretty warm…not too much wind coming off of the lake.
couldn’t run with my toque on, it was too warm.
I know many will disagree, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with indoor training. True it’s boring, but if you can get past that, I don’t think it’s any “worse” than being outside. And a treadmill will be a lot easier on your joints…
One thing about running on a treadmill is you want to make sure you vary the pace and/or incline fairly often on longer runs or it can actually be hard on your joints. You need a little variation to give the joints a break. Took me a while to figure this out, I was always wondering why my knee would hurt worse on the treadmill.
If I could figure out a way to keep from sweating so bad I could probably go for more than an hour on a treadmill, but by that time my shoes are soaked and squeaking, the treadmill belt is soaked, I’m soaked, wife is pissed that I’m ruining HER treadmill, etc.
Good thing you’re not up here in the Great White North today. Was 0 F (-18 C). Now that’s too damn cold, even for us. C’mon Cerveloguy. We Canucks shouldn’t even be mildly concerned about weather like we’ve had today. I don’t even put a second layer on my legs until it hits -20. I was outside for an hour running today and what is nice is that we hardly have any snow so the footing is great for this time of year. As for treadmills … if you must run on them and can tolerate the boredom then I don’t think that they are a bad thing. I tend to rarely use them. I even have a nice Precor treadmill in the basement that I’ve run on about 4 times ever (my wife runs on it regularly). It is easier to run “faster” on a treadmill using the same effort as it would take you to run outside. One reason that I don’t like them is that I did a workout on one a number of years ago when it was freezing rain outside and actually managed to sprain my ankle. I was doing a tempo run and had the thing going 12mph and I figure that the deck was moving so fast that it was cranking my foot around when I landed. It didn’t bother me during the run but after I showered and drove home it was swollen and painful for a few days.
“C’mon Cerveloguy. We Canucks shouldn’t even be mildly concerned about weather like we’ve had today”
Allan, you’re beginning to sound like my wife. She went for an outdoor run today. I rode the indoor trainer.
Mind you, if we had decent snow instead of all this ice, I would have gone for an x-country ski. I’ll x-country ski in anything, but just give me a slightest excuse to bag a run. 