Dan L wrote:
TootingHammer wrote:
Dan L wrote:
You can be very fit and fat if you eat enough - and cyclists eat a shit load. When you can't go any further on a bike it's not of your physical capabilities, it's because you've run out of energy, so it's importand you keep eating. With running, because of the increase in load you body has to carry, it will reach it's limit before you run out of energy.

And you notice the belly more on cyclists because they're dressed like the only gay in the village. Running stuff's a bit more flattering.

Based on a sample of me, I've noticed that fitness can be sports specific. When I'm fully trained up for stuff I can swim, bike and run all day but you stick me on a rowing machine and I'm fucked after half an hour - but that said, without a doubt running is harder than cycling. It's very strange you can run like that for that long but not be able to do a spin class or something with relative ease.

Surprise you can remember that far back...
  
Don't make me throw peanuts at you....

I'm back on the trail, won't be long now. Although I'd still struggle to match the family Tooting 5k times on my bike

Ha! I don't want to go all Moxy and RDR on here but all I'll say is that for swimming you need a whole new set of lungs. Being fit in other disciplines doesn't matter a jot when you jump in a lake or river.

I might need some EPO.