Indeed.mattheus wrote: ↑17 Aug 2022, 11:46amThe latter is certainly true! But it is linked to the flip-side: you can combine a cycling workout with commuting, a shopping trip, going to see friends (or friends who are scenic views )Cyclewala wrote: ↑11 Aug 2022, 11:01am I am a runner and cyclist and find cycling about 15-20% easier for the same timeframe. Cycling up hills is marginally more difficult than running up them, but one gets a chance to recover downhill.
I find running a better all round workout and more efficient time wise. Less clobber to wear and bike to maintain.
If you think cycling is "15% easier", you need to practice riding 25mile TTs - the flat ones - at your limit. No resting there; but of course less long-term damage on our joints.
But am I mistaken, then, in thinking that there are several, many, numerous and in fact a lot of different modes in which one may run or ride a bike? Some are less energetic than others, or so I thought. Is "a slow jog on the flat" harder than "a pootle up the vale and back again"? If so, which jog-rate and what vales?
Also, why is it felt needful to make the comparisons at all? Is it just that ole compulsion we humans have to put things into pointless hierarchies, all employing different schemas, parameters and traditions and other weightings to decide the method for arranging the dang things?
Cugel, also wondering when the swimmers will demand a place in this taxonomy of the active. (And the pole vaulters).