Why are cyclists so weird on group rides

Uuh it´s a long journey from 0 experience to being a seasoned group-rider with the skills and enough power. And then if you eventually beat everyone on the group rides, it most likely means you still don´t exist in real races. 2 or 3 group rides a week don´t get you very far, but you´ll need to be riding by yourself a lot on the lonely roads, only your thoughts keeping you company.

I´ve done both running and road race cycling. Cycling is a lot harder. Because to actually stay in the front group until the end, you sometimes have to do like 15-20 all out sprints and ride in panic for 30 seconds after each one in order to not get dropped. You take a bike and try that over and over again for just 30 miles and see how that feels. And that´s nothing compared to what you´ll find yourself mentally and physically capable of in a real race, if you are strong in both ways. If not, then finish at the back or dnf.

Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:

It's not any different than most group runs. Starts out easy then someone starts feeling good and decides to up the pace and folks either respond or drop off. There is always the guy that turns every hill into challenge. Let's not forget the guy that likes to finish "strong" and drops a sub-5 mile on everyone or, worse, needs to finish the marathon training group Sunday run with a wicked kick after two plus hours of plodding.

Take away the bikes and lycra and a there is no difference between runners and cyclists. It's largely a bunch of insecure skinny guys trying to prove to the world that they are superior to all of their fellow skinny, awkward, uncoordinated guys in a routine insecure pecker-measuring contest to see who is king of the high-anxiety dorks.

Fixed.

The chief difference, as was already pointed out, is that far too many cyclists are those who proved too fragile to keep up in running.

Smoke weed, talk sh!t like Lane Kiffin wrote:The chief difference, as was already pointed out, is that far too many cyclists are those who proved too fragile to keep up in running.

Hardly any pro cyclists of this sort. Hobby cyclists are more likely to be people too fat to run at all than former runners in my experience. I was one of them back in the day. Then I lost weight thanks to cycling and now run more than bike.

Joe Jackson wrote:

Smoke weed, talk sh!t like Lane Kiffin wrote:The chief difference, as was already pointed out, is that far too many cyclists are those who proved too fragile to keep up in running.

Hardly any pro cyclists of this sort. Hobby cyclists are more likely to be people too fat to run at all than former runners in my experience. I was one of them back in the day. Then I lost weight thanks to cycling and now run more than bike.

People can be fragile in different ways, not only physical.

Smoke weed, talk sh!t like Lane Kiffin wrote:

Joe Jackson wrote:

Hardly any pro cyclists of this sort. Hobby cyclists are more likely to be people too fat to run at all than former runners in my experience. I was one of them back in the day. Then I lost weight thanks to cycling and now run more than bike.

People can be fragile in different ways, not only physical.

Yes, pro cyclists take a lot of flack for DNF’ing a multi-day many hundred/thousand km race while pro runners DNF’ing a 800m race isn’t an uncommon occurrence.

Or did you mean a different kind of fragile?

Criterium seems like road racing (marathon/half), while Cyclocross seems like terrain XC or ultras (for longer races).

I wonder how the members of Queen would do, in shape, in running and/or cycling. I think I've read Taylor/May/Deacon were actually athletic at one point.

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