My fasted 5k treadmill time was 40:40 (just last week). Today on my run I used the Strava run app. It's saying that my 3.1 mi run took 34 minutes. This is shocking to me. Now, I was able to practically run (and I use that term loosely because it certainly isn't very fast) without stopping. There were varied hills throughout the terrain - some very slight and others a tiny bit steeper. Are apps often incorrect? I just am surprised that my time was not longer considering what it normally is indoors. Would the hills account for any of the discrepancies?
Ehh, not totally familiar with that particular app. Some are good, some not so good. Depends on how often they take their measurements, and the course you ran. Try it on a known course and see what it does. Run laps around the local track, do a certified 5k course, etc. You should see how close it is. Admittedly those methods won't be 100% since we never run the way they measure, but it gives you an idea. But as @
Ariel484 said, sometimes you just get into a groove outdoors and keep trucking. You may have not been pushing yourself on the TM as much as you are really capable of. You could be going faster downhill, but that is usually offset by a decrease going uphill.
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Donald Duck - Nice bling! Wear it with pride
Sat was 2mi@8, 2mi@6:24, 2mi@8 followed by 15-20 mins of core crap. Sun was my first actual full yoga class (even if it was streaming online from CA), followed by an 8mi run that evening. Should have been a 13mi@7:33, but I chose to run hills at 8:02,8:30,8:02,8:33,8:02,7:33,7:30,7:30 in the heat. Not ideal, but I'll take the (almost) negative splits at the end, and the fairly close to pace for the hills.
I am also finding that the periodic nagging knee pain is moving to a different area of the knee. So I'm going to go out on a limb and say it never was my IT band, but rather a lack of core strength/bad stride which I'm slowly correcting through the extra core work I'm doing daily. (Which amuses the cat to no end to watch me working on the abs)
