Great race congrats. Seems like you doubled your usual running volume with cycling. You think that level of cycling volume is necessary to reap the running benefits?
thank you Carl. Difficult to say for sure but right now I am inclined to think that way, i.e. that we need to do "a lot of cycling" and still "most of the running". The rationale would be that the stimulus is somewhat lower (even on the cardiorespiratory system, heart rate is quite lower on the bike), and not specific (in terms of muscles used), hence more time is needed. Alternatively other approaches doing only high intensity intervals on the bike also showed improvements for runners, but I find that also quite hard to implement in real life, personally I can find the time for easy training but I cannot find the "energies" to be always on and ready to go with intervals 3-4 times per week, even if the muscular strain is lower. Different ways to get there maybe, depending on what works for an individual.
Perfectly covered all the aspects of training. Thank you for sharing your experience in details! Learning a lot from your part of training and will try to implement in my tranining regiment in near future. At the moment, I'm focusing on loosing weight :)
Great race congrats. Seems like you doubled your usual running volume with cycling. You think that level of cycling volume is necessary to reap the running benefits?
thank you Carl. Difficult to say for sure but right now I am inclined to think that way, i.e. that we need to do "a lot of cycling" and still "most of the running". The rationale would be that the stimulus is somewhat lower (even on the cardiorespiratory system, heart rate is quite lower on the bike), and not specific (in terms of muscles used), hence more time is needed. Alternatively other approaches doing only high intensity intervals on the bike also showed improvements for runners, but I find that also quite hard to implement in real life, personally I can find the time for easy training but I cannot find the "energies" to be always on and ready to go with intervals 3-4 times per week, even if the muscular strain is lower. Different ways to get there maybe, depending on what works for an individual.
Perfectly covered all the aspects of training. Thank you for sharing your experience in details! Learning a lot from your part of training and will try to implement in my tranining regiment in near future. At the moment, I'm focusing on loosing weight :)