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Treadmill vs outdoor pace measures

I've recently been looking at running within pace zones rather than focusing on a set distance and trying to improve PBs. Really enjoying this different kind of challenge! I'm finding though that, while I can achieve pretty fast paces (at least according to my Garmin) outdoors, when I'm using a treadmill, I'm having to go all out at what feels like 100mph and that pace is barely changing at all on the watch. The treadmill would have me believe the pace is changing dramatically but on the watch, where I'm basing my measures, there's no shift!

Is there any way to account for this?

0 Garmin-Sara 7 months ago

Outdoor activities would be getting pace from GPS distance tracking while an indoor activity such as Treadmill would be getting pace from distance using your stride length. If this has not been calibrated, I recommend calibrating treadmill or manually entering in your custom stride length.

If you continue to see discrepancies please contact Product Support for further assistance.

0 trux 7 months ago

5211321 said:
Is there any way to account for this?

If calibrating the Treadmill activity profile as Garmin-Sara advised, does not help, then I recommend using the HRM-Pro chest strap. Not only you will get a more accurate HR, and the Running Dynamics stats, but it also greatly helps improving the distance and pace estimates, both indoors and outdoors.