Comments on: Running 2+ Miles on Treadmill Every Night

By: kelly

kelly — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:37:19 +0000

My husband and I have been trying to have another baby for three years. We have done so many medical tests on me/husband and nothing is wrong. It was suggested that I should loose some weight. I am running 2.55 miles a 7 days week now with no results on tradmill. I started this 2 months ago. I stepped on the scale at 219 pounds, and today my weight said 215. I drink 8 glasses a day, take prenatal vitamins, I stopped all the fast food, desserts, I do not know what else to do. 4 pounds in 2 months and I have completely changed my life style. What else can I do?

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:35:04 +0000

Your story is really inspiring. My goal is to lose 70lbs in 2010. I go to the gym religiously. My strength and stamina have really increased but with little weight loss ( so far only 25 lbs in 9months). I run continuously for 1.5miles at btwn 5.4 – 6 spd at 0.5 incline. I am hoping to get to the 3+ mile by this time next year. Thanks and keep us all motivated!!!

By: treadmill

treadmill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:30:21 +0000

I just found your blog. It’s very inspiring. I like your idea to break the 2:30/2:30 ratio idea. I’m going to give it a try. I always tried to do a treadmill session all at one pace after a small warm up.

I think I could make it farther doing it this way.

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:04:48 +0000

Tyler, you’re doing so great. I just started running in January and finished my first marathon about two weeks ago.

I second the Jeff Galloway approach. When (not if : ) I) I do it again, I will do intervals running for four minutes and walking one – as it was I got so swept up in the race I ended up running 10 miles and thinking to myself, “10 miles already??” I didn’t start running my intervals until mile 13 or so and it caught up with me at the end. Yes, you can keep up a slower pace for a longer period of time – but you can keep up a faster pace with the brief recovery time. At least that’s the way I seem to roll.

Oh, and track your miles on your shoes. You’ll want to replace them after 400 miles or so (some people seem to go through them faster) to prevent injury. I saw you’re looking for ways to track mileage – I like Nike+ but I find it occasionally “loses” miles and will sometimes inexplicably pause during a run. Very frustrating. I would use a separate online journal like mapmyrun or DailyMile.com.

All to say you are doing AWESOME! Great work!!

By: kate

kate — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:42:21 +0000

That’s great! There’s a USMC prep workout that basically changes the ratio by 1 minute every week until 5 mins running then it skips to 7/3 and changes by one minute until 20 mins running with a 5 min warm up and cool down. Then it works on time to get under the BT entry requirement. I think if you pushed yourself you could do 15/30 second ratio changes per week. I believe (when my brother took it) the USMC standard is 1.5 miles in 13:30 to join and 3 miles in under 30 mins to pass after that. I think you can do it.

Also there was some sort of server error message earlier? You broke the internet with your awesome.