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It also uses the wrong muscle groups for cycling, is much higher risk for overuse injury (especially as I already have a CV capacity that far outstrips my running muscles/tendons/ligaments/etc) and I don't particularly like doing it. Having said that I'd take the hundred off Dammit and run to work for shits and gigs.
hippy
Running does seem to be a bit better for fat loss, but it's also quite catabolic once you go over a certain amount of running a day*, cycling tends to preserve muscle mass better, according to a few experience articles from people that have been lifting and cutting weight for ages**
Marathon runners that are as muscly as sprinters tend to not exist, of course diet/genetic selection plays a role but marathon running does not preserve strength muscles as those are dead weight
**if you care about that sort of thing obv, unless you are a gym bro, you may not want to keep that muscle I'm 7 kg over hill climbing cycling weight anyway, I'd need to take up running and trim myself down hard...