Treadmill Pace Converter

About this calculator

Treadmills display speed in miles (or kilometers) per hour, but runners think and train in pace — minutes per mile or minutes per kilometer — which is the unit used on race clocks, training plans, and running watches. Converting between the two is a straightforward division (60 divided by the speed gives minutes per unit distance), but doing that math mid-workout is exactly when nobody wants to do math.

Runners use this conversion to match a treadmill workout to a specific race pace or training-plan target, since a plan written in pace (e.g. an 8:00/mile tempo run) needs to be translated into a treadmill speed setting before you can actually run it. This calculator takes your treadmill speed in mph and returns your equivalent pace per mile and per kilometer.