Runners: here is where biking fits in your life

Callete

One more non-obvious thing - if you can source a good pair of ‘flat’ pedals (with the grip pegs), biking shoes are not even required - for a few weeks, just pedal in trainers/hiking shoes

Maybe if you live in Alabama or Maryland or any other $hitty state.

If you actually live somewhere nice to look at with mountains or water or endless miles of country roads, then cycling becomes a much better exercise choice. If you become a serious cyclist, you're going to get a lot more mitochondria from 10 to 16 hours per week riding than you can possibly gain running, even if you're a 70+ mpw runner.

Riding a bike through the Rockies is 10x more appealing than jogging through Houston suburbia or some downtown "park" filled with homeless crackheads.

Gravel bikes are for real. They open up 10x more options than just pavement alone. ...If you think a cyclocross bike meant for dirt lap racing for one hour is the same as a real gravel bike meant for six hours of riding, then you have no clue.

Running (jogging in your case) is a good utilitarian option available anytime any place, but completely boring. It takes no skill whatsoever, so it's good for a lot of people who are too uncoordinated to do more athletic endeavors. You know, like most LRC guys.

Bro. I live in co, have won both cx and road bike races here. And am faster than you at running. And please tell me the difference between the specialized bike they make for gravel racing and cx? you can’t because it’s the same bike (crux).

Big geometry differences between a Crux and a Diverge, sport.

OP is correct. If it's under 50 degrees I ain't biking.

Love to waive to the hotties, my celibacy streak, that is.

I was thinking about getting a Crux Comp this summer, I have a Allez Elite but there is a lot of gravel here in SE PA. I would think about getting a set of road wheels and aerobars for some tris for it. CruX is a fine option?

I'd hope you're faster than me, but I'm not sure. At 56 I can't run the 880y in 1:52 any longer and only managed 32:51 at 10k in the eighties. Barely break 48 minutes during tris these days.

1° degree slacker head tune and 1° slacker seat tube. Longer chain stay, softer seat stays. ...All equal more comfort and less twitchy bike.

Most true cross race bikes don't even have bottle mounts both because the race is too short, but mostly water bottles get in the way of shouldering the bike when you have to dismount and run. Cross bikes are stiff as a rock. Gravel bikes are comfortable. Road bikes can be both. Road bikes won't take 40mm tires because they don't have clearance that gravel does.

If you race cross and road but have never raced gravel, spare us the "gravel bikes are just marketing!" krap!

If biking is so great for runners and builds way more mitochondria then why aren’t any of the top runners doing a ton of biking? Why aren’t the top cyclists or triathletes the best runners?

What? No $400 silly costume or 2 on a $5K+ bike that we ride once a month and then stow away indefinitely? I though these were mandatory requirements. Been doing it all wrong I guess.