The weather and daylight are two factors that may require the use of a treadmill instead of running outdoors. Both benefit your training in different ways, but at least 60% of it should be outdoors, advises the famous marathonist Mindy Solkin. The best option is to compose your training with outdoor runs and treadmill runs. This applies to all types of training, short-distance and long-distance. The greatest benefit of practicing outdoors is that all races occur in outdoor fields like pavement, grass (cross-country) or dirt; training in these places will help your body get used to the tracks. The number of calories burned is another benefit of outdoors running. Running at speeds under 9 miles an hour (6:40 min-mile-pace) in a treadmill burns about the same number of calories as running at this same pace outdoors. If you ran faster than 9 mph, you'll burn fewer calories on the treadmill. There can be a difference of up to 8% with the amount of calories burned. Indoors, there is no wind resistance or curves to overcome.Factors like this are important to burn more calories and get more strength on the legs. After all, the treadmill belt does propel you along a bit.
It is always more interesting to look at nature. The trees, lakes, birds and flowers are better things to watch than a wall or machines at the gym. However, when it's raining, snowing or there is high humidity, it's better to make use of the treadmill and even better if these are long runs, instead of fast runs. If weather forces you to do more training indoors than out, jus do it: Christine Clark, a runner from Anchorage, Alaska, won the 2000 women's Olympic marathon trials after doing the majority of her training on the treadmill.
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