[SIZE= 12px][COLOR= #0000ff]Isn't the smell of bacon irrisistible, Huskey? For me it is, lol. At the risk of burning the bacon, I have to add this.[/COLOR][/SIZE][COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px] [/COLOR][/SIZE]
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[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]Tellitlikeitis,[/COLOR][/SIZE]
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[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]Your thinking and arguments are so convoluted that most of us are not even sure exactly what your objection IS to cyclists. You proffer that some guy asked you who was in better shape, someone who only cycles or only runs. And which was harder. If that's your question, consider this: Running may be harder than LEISURELY cycling, which is what a lot of people do. But since running isn't leisurely activity, you can't intelligently compare it to leisurely cycling. If you compare equal levels of exertion, maximum-intensity running to maximum-intensity cycling, the scenario changes. I'd like to see a runner, even a professional, Olympian-level athlete, RUN the Tour de France. [/COLOR][/SIZE][COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]Your argument fails sadly. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
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[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]Running IS harder, in one way. It's harder on your knees and ankles, where most runners will develop severe degenerative problems that leave it impossible to continue. My supervisor has been running 5-10 miles daily for most of her life. At 50-something, her doctor just told her she had to quit, because she was ruining her knees. You know what he told to do instead?.... Cycling! He said she would get the same cardiovascular benefit without the joint devastation. Interesting, I think.[/COLOR][/SIZE]
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[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]When you're backed into a corner and can't prove your point, you use the change-the-subject-and-distract-the-opposer technique by bringing up ruminations about whether being able to jog a mile is any good if you can't bench 400, whether cycling or running is any good if you're weak as a bird, and how many people can run a marathon and still bench 300 lbs -- then point out that both runners and cyclists 'look pretty fragile.' Somewhere in this miasma of misdirection there may be a pertinent issue, though it's impossible to find. If you're saying that both cyclists and runners should do cross-training to make sure they have upper body strength, as well, I doubt that anyone on this forum would argue with that, even to fry bacon. So we agree. I think. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
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[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]Then you go back to the original issue with: I still say if you have someone who cycles 7 hours a week and someone who jogs 7 hours a week the jogger would probably be in better shape. Unfortunately, for people trying to prove the unproveable, saying something doesn't make it so. Cardiovascularly, a die-hard cyclist and a die-hard runner would be about equal in respiratory strength and durability, according to the physicians I work with. Both groups would have awesome leg muscles and good cardiac strength. But no runner could run the Tour de France. Hmmm... Maybe you should change your user name to tellitlikeITHINKitis. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
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[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]I suspect that your real issue with cyclists is summed up in your first sentence: "stop hogging the road." Since roads are easily wide enough for runners and cyclists to share, one can only presume that a cyclist dared to 'hog your road' while you were driving. Poor baby, did you actually have to slow down and allow a cyclist to ride on part of the concrete you so obviously own? Did it take you longer to roll through a stop sign because a cyclist with the right of way crossed in front of you? Are you outraged that you can't just gun it and make a cyclist get out of your way without possibly scratching the new pickup Daddy bought for you, the way you like to make pedestrians jump out of your way who have the audacity not to be running? I'm so sorry that we've messed up your world! I'm sure that now, thanks to your illuminating postulations of brilliance, all of us will leap off our cycles and look forward to ruining our knees by running so that we can 'hog' less of your road. Thank you for opening our eyes to how misguided we've been! [/COLOR][/SIZE]
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[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]And by the way -- there's no 'e' at the end of potato. Unless it's plural.[/COLOR][/SIZE]
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