ChrisButch wrote:Just one oddity about the relationship between cycling and hillwalkng fitness. i've always found that if I'm cycling fit I can be reasonably sur of being hillwalkng fit. (And by cycling fit, I mean the abliity to ride hilly 100-mile audaxes etc). But it doesn't work the other way round. When I've come back from a couple of weeks peak-bagging somewhere, the first time I get on the bike I can hardly move - it takes a week or so to get back to normal. Something to do with the different muscle groups, presumably. Others I've mentioned this to have similar experiences.
Agree with this. I did a lot of late winter cycling (far more than last year) in preparation for the Etape Loch Ness at the end of April. My cycle fitness was far better than at any point previously, and there's no doubt it helped the following week in Skye. I also find I deal with hill descents better when I'm cycle fit.
As you say, after a few hill days, the bike feels horrific, my thighs tend to hurt after descents, so i'm guessing that's why i feel so out of sorts on a bike after a period of hillwalking.
