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A Cycling Question Related To Nordic Skiing
I've cycled for many years, but always road conservatively. My roadie
friends say I need to ride bigger gears to become faster. However from many years of cycling I noticed it kicks my butt for returning to hill bounding, ski walking, running, and roller skiing. The legs never feel fresh. Is this something which will pass after several months of getting acclimated to moving bigger gears? Perhaps JT can share some of his cycling/nordic experience. Thanks. |
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A Cycling Question Related To Nordic Skiing
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:43:27 -0700 (PDT), ADK Skier
wrote: I've cycled for many years, but always road conservatively. My roadie friends say I need to ride bigger gears to become faster. However from many years of cycling I noticed it kicks my butt for returning to hill bounding, ski walking, running, and roller skiing. The legs never feel fresh. Is this something which will pass after several months of getting acclimated to moving bigger gears? Perhaps JT can share some of his cycling/nordic experience. I don't really know since I don't ski train much until Novemberish. The only insight I can add is that it's easy to overdo it in cycling with big distance, etc. Well, the other thing is that my legs feel pretty much the same after riding as after skiing the same time period, so maybe if you get used to it you won't have a problem |
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A Cycling Question Related To Nordic Skiing
On Jun 16, 6:43 am, ADK Skier wrote:
I've cycled for many years, but always road conservatively. My roadie friends say I need to ride bigger gears to become faster. However from many years of cycling I noticed it kicks my butt for returning to hill bounding, ski walking, running, and roller skiing. The legs never feel fresh. Is this something which will pass after several months of getting acclimated to moving bigger gears? Perhaps JT can share some of his cycling/nordic experience. Thanks. I bike raced and ski raced together for a decade and have done both sports in a smaller way for another decade since. I find they complement each other just fine. I remember that inline and speed skating also seemed to fit nicely with xc skiing. (Ideally one would also include fla****er canoe/kayak racing/training to get the best cross-sport effect. ) I'm surprised that anyone involved with cycling would comment on gear size. It has no relation to anything. To get faster you have to be fitter, that's all. Your cadence should stay about the same. Gear size will increase naturally with fitness. Actually, as you get fitter on a bike you usually become more versatile/flexible/tolerant/skilled so you can be effective/comfy riding at both faster and slower cadences (and bigger and smaller gears) than previously. Even so, I'd think that skiers might tend to ride best at higher cadences, smaller gears for any given speed/fitness. I did, anyway. I suppose I just had better cardio from skiing than I had leg muscle masss. Also, you're not clear about WHEN your bike legs feel stale as regards ski training. I could see the legs feeling odd for a few weeks in the fall after a summer of cycling but they should gradually get used to running, etc. If you do a running workout the same day or maybe even the next day after a bike workout then you're kinda entering the turf of triathlon training---and those guys find that aerobars and a forward "open" saddle position (steep seat tube) keep their legs fresher for running. Oh well, just some notions. --JP |
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