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cycling and jogging

  • 04-07-2007 4:17pm
    #1
    eurotrotter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭


    hey how are we?!
    i cycle a lot and my endurance levels to hard/strenuous cycling is quite high.
    but i catn jog/threadmill/run for that long at all.
    Im quite fit, go to the gym and cycle a lot, maybe 10 hours of physical activity a week.
    But i often wonder why i cant run for that long/far.
    any ideas why?
    thanks
    ed


Comments

  • #2
    hunnymonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,365 ✭✭✭hunnymonster


    can you just clarify, you say you can't run for long. Is this becuase you turn into a panting, heaving, sweaty mess or because something hurts?


    If it's the former then just run slower. At the beginning you might be just as quick walking but it will let you get used to running. Running is by it's very nature hard work. In cycling you get breaks going downhill and you're not physically lugging your entire body weight off the ground 90 times a minute.


  • #3
    allabouttone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭allabouttone


    conditioning my friend. conditioning!


  • #4
    quozl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


    allabouttone has it exactly right, conditioning.

    Your heart/lungs will be well trained from the cycling but the muscles you need for running won't be at all.

    So you have to train the muscles you're using for running same as you did for cycling. It can take years for some of the longer term changes like great capillary density. Months for some others, like bigger mitochondria and increased aerobic enzyme presence.

    If your muscle cells are short on oxygen, because of internal ineffeciencies and a lack of a proper local distribution system (capilliaries), then even if your blood is oxygenated because of your well trained heart and lungs, you'll still be gasping for breath.

    So just run slower like hunnymonster said, and give it some time. I think she also has a good point in that people tend to start off cycling at a lower effort than they would start running, so they really don't notice quite how badly conditioned they were initially.


  • #5
    ozchick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭ozchick


    Like anything, you have to start of gradually. I ride a lot too, and in January got back into running. But started with the run/walk system. Run 2 mins walk 1 type of thing. You can vary it as you get fitter - increase the run times. After doing that for about 3 weeks (twice a week) then ran for 10 mins walked 2 for 60 mins.

    Now running 10kms three times a week. Consistently and gradual build up are the key!


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