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[SteelBlue]

Originally Posted by fusnik11

I was running about 24 miles a week until a bought my bike.

I have ran zero miles since buying the bike I thought I would try a 6 mile run tomorrow, but doubt I could do it, which spurs the question, how does riding translate to running?

Riders have great heart and lungs and are pretty good runners right off the bike, but it's different enough that they have to put a couple months in to get their speed back up.

[Mormon Red Death]

Originally Posted by SteelBlue

I put a little gym in my garage. I've got a decent bench, a squat rack and about 400 pounds of Olympic weights and a dumbell rack from 25 through 50 pounds. This has helped me to hit the weights a minimum of twice a week. Best purchase I ever made.

Have you been running much?

Wow I am looking to do the same in my unfinished basement. Easier to go downstairs and lift weights when you have two small ones than go to the gym. I have been looking on craig's list and garage sales but am having trouble finding free weights.

I have kept my running at about 20-24 miles a week

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by SteelBlue

Riders have great heart and lungs and are pretty good runners right off the bike, but it's different enough that they have to put a couple months in to get their speed back up.

Some people can run off the bike in a brick bike-run and some cannot. I was a decent recreational runner prior to law school and gave it up until thirty years later when I starting triathloning. Transitioning between bike and run is tough until you pound the miles.

[SteelBlue]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Some people can run off the bike in a brick bike-run and some cannot. I was a decent recreational runner prior to law school and gave it up until thirty years later when I starting triathloning. Transitioning between bike and run is tough until you pound the miles.

I was referring more to just doing a run after only cycling for some time. Not to the literal run right off the bike.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by SteelBlue

I was referring more to just doing a run after only cycling for some time. Not to the literal run right off the bike.

Sorry.

Running is fun and can be done quite easily but cycling and running slow each other down. Running slows your power and speed in cycling with the opposite result also being true.

For example, before I added cycling, I could run 6 minute plus miles without too much difficulty, now, it's quite difficult for me to do more than four or five, unless I really bear down on the running intervals and tempo runs. I also lag in crit rides, easily being dropped because my top speed isn't there.