What is the equivalent...

[Melvil]

...in terms of effort of running a marathon but for cyclists?

Do you think it's the century or is the effort involved more like 150 miles?

Thought?

 

[rich p]

In terms of effort, I'm not sure, but I ran 50 or so marathons and I couldn't run for a week to 2 weeks afterwards but I could ride 120 miles and still be ok to ride the following day. Albeit not another 120. This is probably due to the damage running does to the muscle fibres rather than the effort involved though.

 

[Melvil]

See what you mean, Rich P. Also I guess cycling is intrinsically easier than running on a relatively flat route as you can't just coast along when you run.

 

[Melvil]

From my experience it's the equivalent of more like 200 miles on the bike! But I've only done one and I was crap.

That's still one more than me!

 

[Keith Oates]

Running a marathon is easy until you try doing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Steve Austin]

Cycling is a low-impact sport so its hard to compare it to running which is a hard-impact sport.
I can easily ride 100 miles, yet would struggle to run ten. Very hard to compare the two ime

 

[Smokin Joe]

I'd say a 12 hour time trial is the nearest cycling event to a marathon.

 

[buggi]

i'd say it's an individual thing and would be the time it took you to bonk, as most novice marathon runners i've spoken to said they find at about 20 miles they hit the wall and the rest is REALLY hard. So ride til you bonk then do another 6 miles

 

[walker]

I think the equivilant or 1 mile of running is something like 3.5 miles cycling. But the effect running has on your body over cycling is alot different making it feel harder

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

All depends on the terrain. 115 miles and 3990m of climbing is pretty hard.

 

[walker]

All depends on the terrain. 115 miles and 3990m of climbing is pretty hard.

why would terrain make any difference?

a marathon is a marathon. not all are on dead flat surfaces

 

[Andy in Sig]

Have a look on page 2 of the Health and Fitness section where I posed a similar question and got some very interesting answers.

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

Linky?

 

[Andy in Sig]

Beyond my IT competence, I'm afraid. But if you go over to P2 of the health and fitness bit, there it is. I think I called it running/cycling equivalent.

 

[Melvil]

Here's the link, Andy:

http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=10740