jouster
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For around two years I’ve been pretty fit now.
Although I’ve ridden summer months on the road for around 5 years now, I really ramped things up about 27 months ago adding in weekly
last August I took up the offer of a free month at a HIIT gym and I quite enjoyed it and decided to continue doing it at home in a makeshiftgym in the garage with plenty of TRX, cardio and core work.
so 6 months down the line, I feel probably the fittest I ever have. Without really setting a weight goal, I’ve got down to 10st 12 (started off just over 13st), body fat is around 15% and I’ve even got some abs starting to poke through.
with the recently poor weather, in particular wind, one of my usual weekend rides was a write off so I thought I might go for a relatively
quick and short run.
I live in quite a rural area and I’d walked the same route before, so I set off with no really time in mind.
I should say I’ve never really been a fan of running and that’s probably why I chose riding (I’m not a swimmer either unless it’s mucking about in a pool on holiday) but my thoughts were that a quick run would give a good cardio session in a relatively short time.
So the first run went quite well, covered 5K in 24 mins flat. I felt good and was happy I’d done some exercise that day when I wouldn’t have otherwise ridden
the next morning weather was just as bad and it would be raining that afternoon so again riding was a no no so I decided to nip out for a run again, same route.
It was far windier this time and it felt like I was going backwards a few times, finished the same distance again about a minute slower but again felt good
so now I’m wondering if I should be running a bit more. What would be too much? I’m not fussed about running further as I’m not planning on running a half marathon or anything crazy like that but would running 3,4,5 or more days a week be beneficial or worse for me. Should I be running less than that.?
been told that I could injur myself easily if I’m not careful as myfitness is more cycle based but I’m thinking all of my TRX/floor/core work is on my side for that
I haven’t run today (third day) but that's mainly cos the wind is even worse today but may do so if things calm down tomorrow.
any thoughts from runners or people who cycle and run would really be appreciated as this is all new to me
Although I’ve ridden summer months on the road for around 5 years now, I really ramped things up about 27 months ago adding in weekly
last August I took up the offer of a free month at a HIIT gym and I quite enjoyed it and decided to continue doing it at home in a makeshiftgym in the garage with plenty of TRX, cardio and core work.
so 6 months down the line, I feel probably the fittest I ever have. Without really setting a weight goal, I’ve got down to 10st 12 (started off just over 13st), body fat is around 15% and I’ve even got some abs starting to poke through.
with the recently poor weather, in particular wind, one of my usual weekend rides was a write off so I thought I might go for a relatively
quick and short run.
I live in quite a rural area and I’d walked the same route before, so I set off with no really time in mind.
I should say I’ve never really been a fan of running and that’s probably why I chose riding (I’m not a swimmer either unless it’s mucking about in a pool on holiday) but my thoughts were that a quick run would give a good cardio session in a relatively short time.
So the first run went quite well, covered 5K in 24 mins flat. I felt good and was happy I’d done some exercise that day when I wouldn’t have otherwise ridden
the next morning weather was just as bad and it would be raining that afternoon so again riding was a no no so I decided to nip out for a run again, same route.
It was far windier this time and it felt like I was going backwards a few times, finished the same distance again about a minute slower but again felt good
so now I’m wondering if I should be running a bit more. What would be too much? I’m not fussed about running further as I’m not planning on running a half marathon or anything crazy like that but would running 3,4,5 or more days a week be beneficial or worse for me. Should I be running less than that.?
been told that I could injur myself easily if I’m not careful as myfitness is more cycle based but I’m thinking all of my TRX/floor/core work is on my side for that
I haven’t run today (third day) but that's mainly cos the wind is even worse today but may do so if things calm down tomorrow.
any thoughts from runners or people who cycle and run would really be appreciated as this is all new to me