Originally Posted by
BartJ
I am a runner. I honestly feel the cross training for tri's, particularly the cycling, has helped me with my running. I have posted faster running times with less training miles running, than before I started biking and swimming.
Maybe your faster running times were because you were doing fewer but better focused running training miles and not because of the added swimming/cycling. Maybe you could have worked out a different running training plan (no swimming/cycling) and have even better running times than you have now.
I don't doubt that you are now a faster runner, but your single anecdotal results provide very little, if any, proof that cross-training made you a faster runner.