Originally Posted by
jim p
A guy posted on here a few years back that he had to run twice a year in the military for physical qualifications. He said that his knees were giving him problems and he could not train for the running. He decided to bike for his exercise and to only run on the days that he had to qualify. So now he only runs 2 days a year and he has no problem qualifying.
Maybe you can have similar results.
I could have gotten away with that 20 or 30 years ago, and that's what I did for the 5K 4 years ago but it wasn't much fun. Part of committing to a run is to get yourself running.
I'm happy to correct myself: the pain in the "knees" was just normal muscle soreness in areas I hadn't expected so I'm good to go for continued training. I think Chasm54 was spot on, eccentric contractions (or the shock absorbers as we land, for those of us avoiding medical jargon). We don't really use those in cycling, and a few others I suspect. I still wish there were some feasible way to concentrate specifically on those muscles for a couple of weeks, getting them up to snuff and then running.