I’ve still not been able to complete week9 due to the snow. The pavements are still really icy where I am. I am missing running although I didn’t ever think I would hear myself saying that as I’ve never ran in my life before then. So I decided to repeat week 8 on the cross-trainer to keep my fitness up and found out how different it is to running outside. Outside for me is so much harder, you actually carry your body weight, we encounter different surfaces which makes the step and spring so much harder, you need to protected your feet more. I was a lot faster on the cross trainer where I knew I couldn’t run that fast outside, not if I wanted to last the distance. Have any of you experienced the same?
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You are very wise not to risk being sidelined by an injury in that weather The Running does get very addictive - I learned that to my cost when I ignored a pain in my hip, but just HAD to finish the event...and ended up three months on the IC. Not something I want to repeat
I run exclusively outside - tried the treadmill a few times and didn't like it. Felt very monotonous and 'artificial' and that along with the hassle, noise and lack of truly fresh air in the Gymn was almost enough on their own to put me off it for life. I say 'almost' because during a spell of awful weather and a Ten Mile race coming up, I twice ran ten miles on the treadmill and both times the aftermath was blood in my urine. That has never happened running outside at any distance under any conditions. No more Treadmill for me
However - it certainly does suit others. There are a fair number of posts where members point out the advantages for them so I am not knocking it for everyone, just throwing out my experience and opinion
Main thing in any case is to keep active when the situation genuinely is that a run is truly inadvisable - I reluctantly bought an stationary bike for the few weeks of the year when, because of too much ice and snow, I won't run. For most of the year its an expensive clothes rack - but better to have it than the lure of the couch again
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The Running does get very addictive - I learned that to my cost when I ignored a pain in my hip, but just HAD to finish the event...and ended up three months on the IC. Not something I want to repeat 
Do the trainers have different running schedules for the weeks?
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