LittleGreyCat wrote:
Well, yebutt...
6 mph is a 10 minute mile which is a relaxed running pace.
Assuming your legs, knees and feet are up to even relaxed running.
I've used walking to increase fitness in the past, but 4 mph is about as fast as I can comfortably go after some building up days.
I have difficulty visualising walking at that pace pushing a loaded touring bike up a steep hill!
No.. definitely not running - if both feet are of the ground at the same time then you are exercising a different technique to the one to which i refer...
...stand up, swing first leg forward to only to the point where the heel of your first foot swings past the toe of the foot on which you are standing...
...very small leg stride, hardly and movement in the knee or upper leg, now repeat. See how much faster you are? Feel that you are not using the same amount of energy as with long strides? When the ground goes up, shorten your stride even more.
...its like cycling cadence. Not pushing your legs around in a high gear, more like spinning them in low, but achieving the same speed or greater as muscles are not tiring as much with each movement...