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Cycling just doesn’t burn enough cals for me
Out of interest, how many do you reckon you can burn per hour while running?
Now I've got decent cycling fitness, I find I can burn not far off 1,000 an hour on the bike if I'm pushing hard for two hours or doing 2 x 20 at threshold on the turbo.
The treadmill told me I was able to do similar when I was running but there was no way I could run at that intensity for two hours without wrecking my joints.
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Avoiding injury is the key. I’m running again after about 4months off - Cycling just doesn’t burn enough cals for me. I’ll be running to/from work one day a week, whilst still doing my structured turbo training on the other days. I could run more, but as Hippy says it’ll affect my cycling - I’m a better cyclist than runner now, so that’s my priority.
Starting out very slow, doing run/walk intervals and building up distance sensibly is the way to go if you’ve never run before IMO