Is running 26 miles the same as a 100 mile bike ride?

[Bigtwin]

yes im going to go to Decathlon this weekend and they will messure my feet and tell me if I am an inner or outer, something like that, anyway ill get the right kind of running shoes.

well the application form has gone in to whizz kids, so if i get a spot i can rely on you guys to help me get to the £1500 i need lol

You might want to try this, so you at least know if they are talking out of their arses..

http://www.zappos.com/runningfitguide.zhtml

 

[Jim_Noir]

I do long distance runs, they are a lot harder than cycling long distance. But go for it, the buzz you get after doing 26 miles is astounding.

 

[RabbitFood]

thanks bigtwin for that ill give that a go before i talk to any spotty 16 year old doing a saterday job.
Jim nor, the more i think about it the more i want to do it

 

[betty swollocks]

What bike are you using for the ride?
Doing 100 miles on a touring bike with a touring load may well be the equivalent of the effort required to run the marathon in terms of calories burned, whereas on a super-duper featherweight racing bike, it might not be.
The two are not really comparable in my view, unless you have given parameters.

 

[RabbitFood]

i Ride on my Allez 09 so nothing flash but like you said it is still lightweight and nothing like a touring bike, so i can see that on my bike 100 miles would be a lot easier than 26 miles running now.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I do long distance runs, they are a lot harder than cycling long distance. But go for it, the buzz you get after doing 26 miles is astounding.

If you mean a sudden and intense awareness of your own mortality, then I'd agree!

 

[Noodley]

Difficult to comparev the two activities but, and I have said this before, I would say you'd have to be looking at a flattish 400km bike ride before any type of physical exersion comparrisons could be made....or a hilly 300km.

But that does not factor in the speed of completion....so someone will be along to point that out soon. Oops just spoiled it for them!

 

[Dan B]

Long distance runners to have cope with the wall. Long distant cyclists don't

Isn't "hitting the wall" just the runner's name for the same effect that cyclists call "bonking"?

 

[montage]

Surely it all depends on the intensity of the 100 mile cycle ride. Therefore there is no answer (though running is far harsher on the body)

Doing 100miles at 90% intensity would be harder than walking for 26.2 miles...
....but running 26.2 miles would be harder than poodling along for 100 miles cycling.

 

[Radius]

Isn't "hitting the wall" just the runner's name for the same effect that cyclists call "bonking"?

Yep. Anyone who claims there isn't a 'wall' for cyclists getting up a monster hill or doing mega distances is surely mad?

 

[dellzeqq]

No - cycling 100 miles takes you places and allows you to admire the view. Running 26 miles in the sweaty company of people you don't know round a course you've no interest in is a different thing entirely. And is likely to hurt.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I recently cycled 125 miles, half of it in the company of dellzeqq and his FNRttC crew. The next day I went mountain biking for 5 hours and went to work on Monday on my bike as usual. So know I want to know what 300km feels like....

The penultimate time I ran a marathon (long time ago), despite having trained for it, the next day I was taken to a physiotherapist and could not face work for 3 days. The last time I did one I thought the boredom of the training and the run would leave me permanently deranged.

During the rugby season I run about 6km three times a week as a referee. Fortunately the rugby is usually of sufficient quality to distract me from the tedium of the running. if it isn't and I get to bored I just blow my whistle and everybody stops.

Running for the sake of running... just ain't natural.

 

[Jim_Noir]

If you mean a sudden and intense awareness of your own mortality, then I'd agree!

I love that feeling of my heart beating out my chest, my lungs being pushed to their limts... but you know you still have to push yourself... then I'm a Cardio junkie!

 

[buggi]

No, it's nothing like it.

with a reasonable amount of base fitness most people would be able to ride 100 miles. they might suffer for it the next day, but even so, they would probably still be able to do it.

with the same reasonable amount of base fitness, most people would NOT be able to run 5 miles let alone a marathon.

i can't even run for a bus! i don't believe it's about "using different muscles". it's just fecking much harder! plus there are no down hills where you can freewheel! you have to plug at it constantly.

give me a pair of cycle shoes over a pair of trainers any day!

 

[Panter]

i don't believe it's about "using different muscles". it's just fecking much harder!

Beautifully put

Actually, I think (or in my case anyway) it is different muscle groups. I did a Century last Year on the bike which was fine but for jogging (not even running) about 2 miles is my limit and that aches afterwards if I don't do it regularly, which I don't 'cause I don't like it.
Have to agree though, running is way tougher than cycling.

Anyway, good luck if you do the Marathon, it's defiantely on my "want to do" list, just need to shed some more weight so that my knees don't turn to paste halfway round.