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CAD703X 
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19858 posts
| Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:12 am)
Why all the love for running on this board? People have such serious threads about the shoes they were and brag like they're some kind of macho fitness Adonis because they can jog at FOUR miles per hour.
Meanwhile cyclists connect themselves to a 12lb machine, scream down switchbacks at close to 70mph (fastest speed i've hit personally was 68), slam elbows and legs into each other going 30mph around corners in packs of 75 people on uneven pavement which more often than not results in gnarly pileups of blood and broken bicycles and truly COMPETE in races sprinting at 40mph+ on the line in an adrenaline-fueled orgy of winner-takes-all after racing 75 miles in 4 hours..the whole time at your maximum heartrate.
...yet the cyclists are the ones ridiculed as wimpy and the gear they wear is mocked. when's the last time a jogger did anything except get poor little shin splints because him'ums ran 5 miles and hurt his wittle footie.
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Pectus 
New Orleans Saints Fan
Internet
Member since Apr 2010
38756 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:13 am to CAD703X)
One's a lot more accessible to the masses.
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TexasTiger05 
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Member since Aug 2007
26788 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:13 am to CAD703X)
I never knew there was a runner vs cyclist pissing match on here. I guess people rag on the gear and get annoyed with cyclists on the road?
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trillhog
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Member since Jul 2011
14627 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:14 am to CAD703X)
people on here mainly have disdain for the cycle's uniform. i do both.
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Salmon
Montana Fan
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Member since Feb 2008
18024 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:14 am to CAD703X)
because cyclist are more often than not annoying gear heads
when a sport is 50% gear, it is pretty laughable
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barry 
Cincinnati Fan
Location, Location, Location
Member since Aug 2006
34985 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:14 am to CAD703X)
Running is more primal. I don't remember watching nat geo and seeing some dude chase down a lion on the Serengeti with a trek.
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rintintin
New Orleans Saints Fan
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| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:14 am to CAD703X)
I'm a triathelete, what's up now bitch
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trillhog
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Member since Jul 2011
14627 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:15 am to Salmon)
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when a sport is 50% gear, it is pretty laughable
well it's a bicycle, it has gear.
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polarbehr
LSU Fan
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Member since Sep 2011
6568 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:15 am to CAD703X)
My Android watch says i run at 7mph
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BestBanker
LSU Fan
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Member since Nov 2011
1909 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:16 am to CAD703X)
Both seem to have a want to get away from something, so I vote they're equal.
:Inb4thewantishealth:
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Salmon
Montana Fan
On the trails
Member since Feb 2008
18024 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:17 am to CAD703X)
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truly COMPETE in races sprinting at 40mph+ on the line in an adrenaline-fueled orgy of winner-takes-all after racing 75 miles in 4 hours..the whole time at your maximum heartrate.
and you act as if elite runners do not actually compete during races?
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trillhog
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Member since Jul 2011
14627 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:19 am to Salmon)
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and you act as if elite runners do not actually compete during races?
i think what he's saying it doesn't have that element of danger like you get in a crit race.
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Mr Fusion 
USA Fan
Member since Dec 2010
5089 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:19 am to CAD703X)
Because runners do not complain as much about not getting respect from automobile drivers, then go break the traffic laws that they should be following.
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ATXTiger1
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Austin
Member since Feb 2009
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| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:19 am to CAD703X)
Obvious troll is obvious
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Salmon
Montana Fan
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Member since Feb 2008
18024 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:20 am to trillhog)
yeah because drafting behind the lead guy for 95% of the race is really adrenaline inducing 
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TXGunslinger10
LSU Fan
Houston, TX
Member since Jun 2011
7084 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:21 am to Salmon)
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COMPETE in races sprinting at 40mph+
Whoa now...this is elite level.
I'm a 17 mph guy myself. Stretch that over 75 miles and thats plenty enough of a workout for me.
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trillhog
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Member since Jul 2011
14627 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:21 am to Salmon)
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yeah because drafting behind the lead guy for 95% of the race is really adrenaline inducing
have you not ever been to a crit race? where they fly down at 50 mph and take a 90 degree curve in a pack? it's a little more than drafting.
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Gaston
LSU Fan
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
16716 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:22 am to CAD703X)
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Running vs Cycling
Both are inane and unskilled.
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drunkenpunkin
LSU Fan
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2011
4412 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:22 am to CAD703X)
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the shoes they were.
I have never been a shoe.
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crankbait
LSU Fan
Austin
Member since Feb 2008
8169 posts
| re: Running vs Cycling (Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:23 am to Salmon)
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Salmon
who is the guy in your avatar?
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