Brand new here. I have no idea how commonplace what I’m about to say is, but I decided to go for a walk on my treadmill before work. I decided to start off at a jog and set my treadmill to 5 mph (I assume that’s how it’s tracked since it’s just numbers 1-10) and managed to keep that pace for 20 straight minutes, walked for 5 and then set it back to 5 mph for the remaining 5 minutes of the 30 total that I planned, I tracked the distance on my Apple Watch and at the end I managed to get 4.55km, with my 1 mile time I tracked at ~9:30 for my first mile. I’ve never tried running for that long uninterrupted and was absolutely shocked I could do that, and to boot I did it all with a 20lb weight vest on. Reason for my shock is I’ve never ran before except when forced to as conditioning for various sports I played, and I’ve always been a big guy, just recently going from 265lbs to 210 in 4 months. I figured I’d come here to get some humbling replies from experienced runners about how i may have tracked it wrong or something, because it genuinely doesn’t compute how I managed this with 0 experience and an added 20lbs. Genuinely asking for some explanation as to how I managed this at all. Cheers
Sounds like you had a great experience which is good! It’s very likely that the treadmill isn’t calibrated so the distance it’s measuring is likely wrong, and I don’t know about Apple Watches but Garmin and other sports watches have an impossible time tracking on treadmills without some kind of footpod. That said, there are also such things as beginner gains, and often beginner runners can pop out some surprising efforts (and then get a little cocky and go too hard too fast and get injured!). Do you think you’ll give it another go sometime?
Brand new here. I have no idea how commonplace what I’m about to say is, but I decided to go for a walk on my treadmill before work. I decided to start off at a jog and set my treadmill to 5 mph (I assume that’s how it’s tracked since it’s just numbers 1-10) and managed to keep that pace for 20 straight minutes, walked for 5 and then set it back to 5 mph for the remaining 5 minutes of the 30 total that I planned, I tracked the distance on my Apple Watch and at the end I managed to get 4.55km, with my 1 mile time I tracked at ~9:30 for my first mile. I’ve never tried running for that long uninterrupted and was absolutely shocked I could do that, and to boot I did it all with a 20lb weight vest on. Reason for my shock is I’ve never ran before except when forced to as conditioning for various sports I played, and I’ve always been a big guy, just recently going from 265lbs to 210 in 4 months. I figured I’d come here to get some humbling replies from experienced runners about how i may have tracked it wrong or something, because it genuinely doesn’t compute how I managed this with 0 experience and an added 20lbs. Genuinely asking for some explanation as to how I managed this at all. Cheers
Sounds like you had a great experience which is good! It’s very likely that the treadmill isn’t calibrated so the distance it’s measuring is likely wrong, and I don’t know about Apple Watches but Garmin and other sports watches have an impossible time tracking on treadmills without some kind of footpod. That said, there are also such things as beginner gains, and often beginner runners can pop out some surprising efforts (and then get a little cocky and go too hard too fast and get injured!). Do you think you’ll give it another go sometime?