Hi,
I am a keen runner who has been forced into a large amount of work on the exercise bike by a nagging and yet undiagnosed knee injury. In the last few weeks I have been going on the exercise bike 5 times a week and doing an hour or so. This afternoon I tried going for the longest distance I could manage in 1 hour and managed 22.75 miles (I usually average about 2.45 minute miling). Afterwards it got me thinking given persistent impact injuries from running over the years, how would I fare in a sport where I seem to be able to do it injury-free i.e road cycling? I do realise the elite are probably a lot lot quicker but where would I place in a average local road race? How do times on exercise bikes, probably unreliable match up to times out on the roads?
My credentials as a runner are I ran sub 17 minutes for 5k last summer but I'm never able to string more than a few weeks decent training together so have never progressed to a decent club level in 5 years in the sport.
C
I am a keen runner who has been forced into a large amount of work on the exercise bike by a nagging and yet undiagnosed knee injury. In the last few weeks I have been going on the exercise bike 5 times a week and doing an hour or so. This afternoon I tried going for the longest distance I could manage in 1 hour and managed 22.75 miles (I usually average about 2.45 minute miling). Afterwards it got me thinking given persistent impact injuries from running over the years, how would I fare in a sport where I seem to be able to do it injury-free i.e road cycling? I do realise the elite are probably a lot lot quicker but where would I place in a average local road race? How do times on exercise bikes, probably unreliable match up to times out on the roads?
My credentials as a runner are I ran sub 17 minutes for 5k last summer but I'm never able to string more than a few weeks decent training together so have never progressed to a decent club level in 5 years in the sport.
C