Can I Train on a Treadmill?

Treadmill Running

You can do all of your run workouts on a treadmill; we have many athletes who do all or the majority of sessions indoors due to location or environment. A few factors to consider:

1. The effort sections in Speed/Interval workouts will have some lag as you build to the right pace/speed/HR (whichever measure). However, this will be offset on the back end.
2. Long runs will give you psychological training benefits and physiological endurance fitness gains.
3. Have the treadmill at a 1% incline to counter the indoor advantage of no wind resistance.
4. As you near your race, you will benefit from doing one or two of the long ones outside, preferably with terrain/environment/climate/elevation similar to your target race.

You may also need to calibrate your device with your treadmill:

How Does the Treadmill Calibration Feature Work on My Garmin Watch?

And you may be interested in this video from Phil:

7 Surprising Ways to Make TREADMILL Runs Less BORING!

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