1st bonk, scared me sh***less
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Dayvo
just passin' through
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- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
dan_bo
How much does it cost to Oldham?
Or the point when eating the heather at the side of holme moss seems like a sterling idea.
But, because the heather is 3ft away, you cannot get to it because it is too far.
Chris S
Legendary Member
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- Birmingham
The scariest thing about my first bonk was buying the condoms ...
Banksy1
Active Member
Ha ha surely this uses more energy trying to chew them?.
Seriously a "bonk" or as I know it as "hitting the wall" isn't fun and you only know when and how to solve it once you've experienced it a few times. I like to push hard cycling so it happens often when I get lazy and don't take onboard food or fluids to re-stock. The first time it happened to me I was cycling up a steep hill at about 3-5mph and I just fell off due to loss of balance and almost falling asleep from exhaustion, I know now when my stomach is aching /burning that I need to eat or drink quickly before its hits me.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
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- Reading, obvs
I've never experienced that on a bike - yet - but I won't forget hitting the wall with about 6 miles to go when I ran my first marathon. It was awful, nothing like I'd imagined and not at all like the club coach had warned us it would feel like.
ayceejay
Guru
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- Rural Quebec
Hitting the wall and the bonk are not the same thing.
Banksy1
Active Member
whats the difference then other than one is normally used in running terms and the other cycling?.
T.M.H.N.E.T
Rainbows aren't just for world champions
- Location
- Northern Ireland
There is no difference, each term refers to endurance sport athletes/participants running out of liver and muscle glycogen.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Assuming that you are speaking from experience of both, how would you say that they differ?
Apart from the obvious that when you're running you can't freewheel.
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
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- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
I didn't know that, I always thought it was something less serious.
learn a new thing every day
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
I wish I knew. I've been riding a while now at occasionally still get terrible pins and needles in my feet. Had it last weekend on a longish ride and my middle toe is STILL numb today.
yet a while back I rode a fair distance every day for a couple of weeks and had no problems at all.
I sometimes think its my shoe, or my pedal but I've used both in both situations....perhaps its just a training thing.
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
Oh, I dunno
ayceejay
Guru
- Location
- Rural Quebec
Purely anecdotal and from personal experience but having said that I may not be describing 'hitting the wall' at all but when running a long distance say a marathon I have had the experience shared by other runners and found it to be, in part, psychological. What this meant was that I could run though it and continue to the end. Bonking on the other hand is a total wipe out and like Ian says there is no way you could continue to ride your bike.
