E20 - What’s the best surface to run on?

Dave and Matt answer a question sent in by a listener of the show about training on the treadmill vs training on other surfaces - which is the best use case for each type of training run?

* We apologise for the slight audio disruption in the last 5 minutes of the recording *

Show Notes:

Studies on Physiology of Treadmill grade vs Outdoor running
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8887211/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-019-01087-9

Study on Differences Between Treadmill Types
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27575734/ 

Study on Motorised vs Non-Motorised Curved Treadmill
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30084302/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34065387/ 

Studies on Road vs Trail Running
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10002259/  - Beginners
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36515604/ - Elites

Level vs Uphill Running in Trailrunners
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30676150/ 

Energy Cost of Uphill Running in Well Trained Athletes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34853187/ 

Technical Uphill vs Treadmill of same Gradient
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34663199/