Before I got a bike, hiking used to be my big thing. I've climbed Mt. Whitney a half dozen times (about 20 miles RT) and would always go off on the weekends to hike in the mountains outside San Diego where we lived at the time.

Now that I have a bike, I just hike on vacations, mostly in Yosemite. But when I do hike, I notice now that my calves kill me the day afterward. It's crazy. I can ride my bike 375 miles, but hiking makes me limp for days!

I figure it's muscle conditioning, so does anyone have any suggestions for weight work or exercises which might minimize this?

Yesterday, we had a field trip which involved hiking down to Kirby Cove and then back up again. Probably 1.5 miles each way, all on a big hill. But my legs hurt more than they did after last weekend's 200k!!!