Anyone start cycling to get fit for another sport and ......

richardacdc

Anyone else start cycling to keep/ get fit for another sport and end up getting hooked and cycling to get better at cycling?..

If not, just me!

Keith47

Yup, started cycling after getting bored out of my mind using exercise bike at the gym trying to cut up for a bodybuilding contest and realised how enjoyable riding was!
Been riding ever since, still love it, don't do much weight training now so it's my only way of staying in shape

TheCoo'sTail

Yip. Started cycling again to improve fitness for hillwalking/climbing. Now ditched both almost entirely for the bike!

steve6690

Sort of. I have to do a bleep test every year for work. I get knee and ankle problems if I do any decent amount of running so this year I'm trying cycling to get fit.

elderone

YEP started riding for fitness and healthe benefits after 35 years of fags and got hooked.

Totem

Mostly just to get fit, was getting bored of jogging (I won’t call what I do running). Got a road bike on the way as the mtb is a bit heavy; can go further and faster on the bike so its more enjoyable.

Schoie81

Yep!! Two years ago an overweight, very unfit Schoie81 signed up to do a 10km run for charity. Whilst training for that, someone told me i should mix my running with some other form of exercise, so I bought a bike. Didn't use it that much to start with, but when I did the 10km run, I quite badly damaged my ankle and my foot. On the road to recovering from that I could get back on the bike quite a bit before I was up to running on my foot and so got some miles in and now I consider myself to be a cyclist who does a bit of running! I haven't been out for a run since March!!

WindyG

Got back into cycling(MTB's) to get fit and lose a cople of stone and I am local to Thetford forest so seemed stupid to not go and cycling around there, wife suggested racing so I started that and got a road bike to get fitter for the racing, I didn't think I would enjoy the road side at all but I'm getting into and will start to commute to work as well now on the bike.

socistep

kind of...before cycling I was 95% football and the odd walk and very rare run (which I've never massively enjoyed), I changed jobs a year ago today and lost 2 lunchtime 5 a side games but moved to a company very well geared up for cycling and closer then previous job so initially thought I'd cycle a couple of times a week to replace the football but within a few days that ended up being 5 days a week in all weathers, moved from hybrid to road bike in Jan and its stepped up a lot, surprised by how hooked i've become, didn't expect it at all!

fishyweb

Think I fit into this category. I do a fair bit of running but am injury prone, so got a bike to stay fit while unable to run (non-impact, right?). Carried on cycling at least once a week even when not injured, and am now cycling more than running! I love both, so it's not a foregone conclusion that running will continue to take a back seat, though.

wod1

I cycled to work, initally on a mountain bike plus some weekend rides when not in the yacht racing season. Moved house a bit further from work so bought a road bike and now very into cycling, cycling moved on to Triathlons and this years Yacht racing hasnt happend yet as all free time (not much with a 2 year old to look after) has been running/swimming and cycling.