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I find it fascinating that just doing something a little out of the ordinary can have a big effect on you.
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It's amazing, isn't it?
I'm a reasonably serious cyclist, in good physical shape. I easily do an 80km ride, and have done 100 miles (although that was tough).
Anyhow, one lunch time some of my friends were talking about how tough a marathon is, how "you only have a certain number in you", and I was thinking to myself "yeah, sure, but really, 42km, how tough can that be".
So, that evening I needed to go to the post box, I thought "we'll see, I'll run instead". It's 2km each way, so 4 km total. Should be able to do that in 15 minutes at the most. Certainly could do it in about 6 minutes on the bike.
Running there, it was reasonably hard to maintain the pace. Running back it started to get progressively more painful, and finally when I got back, I was totally shattered. Next day, I was sore ALL OVER. I could hardly believe how hard it was.
It's just different muscle groups. Without training, you are soft. I think it's the same for any manual activity. Taught me some respect.
-Ivan