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Week 9 Run Question

daisymackdaisymack
in November ‘09 Outseason

I'm largely stuck on the treadmill for these 200/400/800/1000 efforts that are coming up. My gym used to have an old treadmill that tracked your distance around a 400 meter "track" and I was able to use that to gauge distance, but the darn owners have gone and upgraded the treadmills (the nerve!).

I feel like I saw a post early on in the OS about converting to miles but I can't find it anymore. How do you guys do these on the treadmill?

Comments

  • Keith WickKeith Wick
    Here's how I convert it.

    200= 0.125 miles
    400= 0.25 miles
    800= 0.5 miles
    1000= 0.625 miles
    1200= 0.75 miles
  • mgraffeomgraffeo
    Posted By Keith Wick on 29 Dec 2009 01:46 PM

    Here's how I convert it.



    200= 0.125 miles

    400= 0.25 miles

    800= 0.5 miles

    1000= 0.625 miles

    1200= 0.75 miles

     

    What Keith said.  If your treadmill only goes to two digits, then you can guestimate when you've hit .125 on the 200's and 1000's one of two ways

    1. watching the clock, figure how how many seconds it takes to go from 0.02 to 0.03, do it again for 0.03 to 0.04 (or some other 0.01 gap), then take the average and divide by two, and count that many seconds after you cross 0.12 mi
    2. count footsteps over 0.01 intervals, take the average, and divide by two.  Count that many footsteps after 0.12

    Or, you could be one of those people who doesn't have OCD like I do, and just kinda go by feel.

    -Mike

  • daisymackdaisymack
    Yeah, it's that 1000th after the decimal that I miss. (Also, my Garmin 305 doesn't let me program beyond the hundredth - what gives with that?) That's why it was nice last year to watch the little blinking lights go around in a circle. Michael, I am impressed by your OCD. Footsteps is probably a good method. Will try tomorrow, thanks!
  • kcb203kcb203
    Or you can just do the math before hand to calculate the length by time instead of distance. My 5k pace is 6:20, so 800m is 3:10, 400m is 1:35, and 200m is 0:47.5.

  • LisaLisa

    this may sound really silly but it is wrong just to round up on the treadmill and do .13 for the 200s and .63 for the 1000?

  • kcb203kcb203
    At a 7 minute pace, rounding up from .125 to .13 or .625 to .63 is 2.1 seconds, so I don't think it matters at all.
  • Coach PatrickCoach Patrick
    Rounding up is FINE, and I personally use time not distance, FWIW. Of course I have no treadmill and the only number I care about is 10 (current outside temp) and the fact that the windchill has it sub-zero. Ugh.
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