Mile run

[Scythe13]

(30 April 2012, 16:33)WetandCold Wrote: Here is another one for you Scythe, try running across a freshly ploughed farmer’s field after a good rain, you want a work out that should do it or I am getting too old and maybe it’s easy? Let me know.

I think it's a bit of both mate haha.

As much as I'm outdoors and all that, I hate getting muddy trousers! I'd do it, in shorts. But yeah, it's knackering. Same as running in sand, but your feet are deeper, wetter, and stuck! haha

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If anyone is planning a mile on a tread mill, can I just point out that you're not actually running. With a treadmill, the motion is similar to a jump in exertion. You're pushing yourself up, while your foot is on a moving platform. You're not actually pushing yourself forwards. You're not forcing your bodyweight forward against the forces of gravity, air resistance, innertia and all those kinds of things. On a treadmill all the horizontal movement is accounted for by the machine, all you need to do is add the vertical aspect of 'running'.

That is why some people can run for an hour on a treadmill, but for less than 15 minutes on the road.