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Training on a treadmill

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Annemc69 Feb 2013 9:26pm, 22 Feb 2013 2 posts	Quote Pin Annemc69 All very positive - thank you. BBC podcasts are brilliant to listen to and help to banish the boredom. Will get outside once back in the UK, but while in Lagos have to stick to the gym and the pool.
JohnnyO Feb 2013 9:35pm, 22 Feb 2013 15,106 posts	Quote Pin JohnnyO I do about 20 miles a week (or more) on a tready. I have done 20 in one go. Music for shorter things (up to 10 miles or so). For the longer ones I plug my phone in to it and watch a film. Time flies. I set the incline to .5, just because it feels right. Anything steeper than that and my calves get tight. It will be fine for your race. Running is running, and although you might ideally train on the surface that you will race on, its not like you are doing a fell race. Treadmills are actually very similar to roads.
wiener dog Feb 2013 9:57pm, 22 Feb 2013 1,072 posts	Quote Pin wiener dog I agree with the others - I did a mara on a treadmill & it's really the boredom more than anything. I can't cope with a set incline as it makes my legs tight too, I usually put it on hill programe at a low level & vary the speeds a bit too.
Caterpillar Feb 2013 9:58pm, 22 Feb 2013 7,496 posts	Quote Pin Caterpillar Can you run a marathon on a treadmill after three or four Rohypnols? That would suit me fine.
Tim of MK Feb 2013 7:35pm, 24 Feb 2013 1,908 posts	Quote Pin Tim of MK I've always trained exclusively indoors and have never found the transition to outdoors on racedays any problem (except for sometimes the weather). Some. set a 0.5 incline, but I've never bothered with that. My only advice is that you need to take a lot of fluid onboard, as gym's are notorious for dehydration.
Johnny Blaze Feb 2013 7:46pm, 24 Feb 2013 17,107 posts	Quote Pin Johnny Blaze I've done up to 18 miles on a treddie. The ones I used had a telly, but the best thing was to use an Ipod. Treddies are excellent for shorter tempo runs and intervals as well. I got fit for my pb marathon largely by using a treddie to work on speed. It can be done.
Gobi Feb 2013 8:42pm, 24 Feb 2013 50,426 posts	Quote Pin Gobi Looks like Tim Read my post before posting ps. if you get the focus right music and a dot on the wall are all you need
andydgg Feb 2013 9:39pm, 24 Feb 2013 59 posts	Quote Pin andydgg I did 3 hours on a treadmill a few weeks ago, used a hr monitor and set up a monitor and laptop and watched a film, time went by really fast.