Pace is the trick

Russ and fellow bloggeurs/euses

I read somewhere that the reason why you run can different distances in different times on a treadmill as opposed to normal running is due to the fact your pace does not fluctuate much on a treadmill. On a treadmill you set the machine to the pace you want and don't speed up or slow down as you get to changes in the gradient or in the surface underfoot,

Also, you don't tend to get hotter or colder, or run into a cold wind or anything like that when you're on a treadmill, unless the bloke next to you does something unpleasant or unsanitary.

When you're running outside there is however a far smaller risk of tripping over your towel and getting catapulted off the machine into a hapless passer by. I have seen it done.....

Another 5km this morning - the weather has suddenly become glorious, and wearing black is no longer an option. Where we run is just near a landing pad for people like Dan who like jumping off cliffs with frame tents strapped to their backs. Saw a bloke disappear into some trees to make an unscheduled arrival this morning - he definitely ran out of range. He'll be picking twigs out of hard to reach places for weeks on end, but it was on balance a better landing site than the autoroute.