Subject: RE: Bike/Run Run/Bike Fitness translation I think the cardio fitness helps. I started biking earlier this year while recovering from a running injury. I've biked on and off throughout my life for fun, but this has been the first time I've ever done any sort of training with it. Anyway, the first day I had my bike, I took off and did 25 miles like it was nothing. I rode with a coach and he said my running background had me far ahead of most new bikers, in speed and climbing ability and etc. When I returned to running after two months off (during which I'd been swimming the first month, swimming and biking the second), my cardio endurance wasn't too far off at all. Even now, I don't feel like I get worn out from a cardio standpoint, my legs just give out way before the rest of me does. I especially noticed that when I was first coming back to running. I'm a pretty solidly MOP biker (at the sprint distance, at least) with minimal experience and honestly, not a lot of practice. I attribute that to running for years. |