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BossArky

I was talking to a colleague of mine over coffee a few minutes ago. Tomorrow I'm running a 5km race, and was telling him that over the weekend I ran the distance ok without keeling over and being out of breath... just my legs and feet get tired / sore.

He reckons that if you are fit then you will be out of breath, but your legs will not be sore --> i.e. he reckons I'm not fit.

However, I would have thought that not being out of breath would suggest that I am fit enough, but just the legs aren't used to the pounding on the streets.... as I've done heaps of cycling before.

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scuba steve

Thats what I would have thought 2

poobum

BossArky wrote:

I was talking to a colleague of mine over coffee a few minutes ago. Tomorrow I'm running a 5km race, and was telling him that over the weekend I ran the distance ok without keeling over and being out of breath... just my legs and feet get tired / sore.

He reckons that if you are fit then you will be out of breath, but your legs will not be sore --> i.e. he reckons I'm not fit.

However, I would have thought that not being out of breath would suggest that I am fit enough, but just the legs aren't used to the pounding on the streets.... as I've done heaps of cycling before.

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dude thats just because you are using muscles you are used to using so much! the fact that your arent out of breath shows your lung capacity is high which is a mark of a fit person! you could be the world best runner then go to the gym and do sh1t all on the bench etc... because they are different muscles to what he was used to! the guy mightn't be out of breath but his chest would hurt!

leeroybrown

Agreed. While cycling is a very good fitness builder it targets very specific muscle groups and places much less stress on other muscle groups than running does. When I used to cycle commute every day I was reasonably fit and made relatively light work of my 6 mile journey but if I played soccer/ran I'd always be sore the following day even with a decent warm up.

joc_06

all crazy talk. none of it is a measure of fitness, without knowing your age, weight height, time ran etc etc.
even the fittest guys can get sore muscles and be out of breath by runnin short distances like 400m or even less. it all depends on how fast you run it etc etc

BossArky

Well the race was yesterday. You can check it out at the following link, just go to the London race:

http://www.jpmorganchasecc.com/

There were so many people there and I arrived late so that after the race started it still took 6 minutes to get to the start line as everyone was packed together.

I crossed the finish line in 36.19... so subtracting about the 6 minutes for hanging around initially I would say it took 30 minutes for the 5.6kms... so an average speed of 11.2 kmph.

How often should I run per week to increase fitness? Should I look at increasing distance or speed first? I would think I am pretty fit(just not a runner) as I used to cycle 35km to work in my last job in 51 minutes. --> I want to transfer this to the running.

BossArky

joc_06 wrote:

all crazy talk. none of it is a measure of fitness, without knowing your age, weight height, time ran etc etc.

I'm 24, 5foot7, 72kg