I’ve lost all respect for cyclists.

not pedalling hard enough.

My brother once said, "any sport where you can eat a whole pizza while doing the sport is not a sport and is not hard." I'd say it is pretty accurate. No matter how hard you pedal you can absolutely eat a whole pizza while cycling. NFL players can't eat a whole pizza while playing. Poker players? Obviously, and they do. Cycling is equivalent to poker in terms of athletic ability required. Which is none.

Yesterday I ran an easy long run. Today I biked 15 miles hard. The running was a whole lot easier, I've lost all respect for runners.

Maybe today you are tired BECAUSE yesterday you rode 70 miles.....

I’ve come to cycling after a long life as a runner. I enjoy cycling but as running is a much more difficult effort than cycling.

Any endurance sport is difficult if you go as hard as you possibly can.

Do a max effort up a 10 mile climb at an 8% + gradient, then ride down the other side at 70 mph. If that's easy, then I don't think you know what max effort is.

Anyone that thinks running 7 miles is harder than cycling 70 miles isn’t pushing the pedals hard enough and more than likely is physiologically deficient and a wimp. Perhaps you better stick to something less taxing like curling or bags.

You referenced the wrong sport in your handle, unless you also ski and shoot at little targets.

Try it in a hilly area

OP probably averaged 10mph on the ride and I’m guessing the easy run splits looked like this: 6:50, 7:10, 7:30, 8:00, 8:40, 8:40, 8:40, 7:10

The classic hobby jogger regression then all-out sprint the last mile.

This is good! My brother is a pro poker player. He said that years ago ESPN did this thing about whether poker should be a sport.

They interviewed him and he said- Any activity where you can gain weight while playing isn't a sport.

Riding a bicycle is very efficient and thus much easier per mile than running.

Generally, running one mile is well over twice as hard as biking a mile. As an example, the current record for bicycling for one hour is almost 56.8 km, while the current record for running one hour is 21.3 km. A cyclist has ridden one km in 56 seconds while the one km run record is 2 min 11 seconds.

Both running and biking can be very difficult if you are putting maximal effort into the activity. But most people seeking a light to moderate amount of exercise effort will be cycling.

Trust LR to throw up bizarre idiotic threads from jobless incels.

All cardiovascular sports can be taken to the limit. Your CV system knows not the diff. I will say this, I have done both, and while running is harder on the body, cyclists have far bigger nutzz. Cycling at any remotely competitive level requires a good relationship with knowing you could be killed any second, or breaking collar bones, losing tissue to the asphalt etc... Its not if, its when . Gotta be hard and fearless. Anybody can run.

So running is harder than biking easy? Thanks for that. Now we know. You have to compare similar efforts.

I've done both. You would get this misconception in cycling, when you're on a ride, and you find a good rhythm, you're going fast (it feels fast), and even you ride a few hills fast. From there your thinking grows, if I did that full time I can pretty much be at the Tour de France. And then you take a next step and start racing. Then you experience guys who don't look like in shape go around you. You hire a coach. Then you go riding with best guys in your area. And soon realize that those best guys are not even best in your state. And those in the state can't even hang with top guys in the country. And those can't hang with local races in Belgium. And then you realize Pro Tour is the level even hard to describe.

Then you go for a run and realize if you just be consistent with it, you can really have fun and achieve great deal of satisfaction. And your riding will benefit from it too.

The OP needs to compete in a cyclocross race. Not off the back! He needs to mix it up in the pack for the full hour. Then, come back and tell us which is harder.

I think this post/complaint simply shows that anyone with a gripe -- no matter how ignorant or uninformed they might be -- has a forum to share their thoughts with the world. Makes me kind of miss the pre-internet world.