Haha
Me too, just saw that on mine is a 5m19 mile - and remembered that it was that ridiculous 1 mile challenge on here back during lockdown when we were all thinking of new and unpleasant ways to get our daily exercise 
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Also, if you click on someone else you follow on a laptop/PC you can directly compare your stats.
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Yeah - mine is 4:55 for that above run commute (which is actually faster than my PB), but you can’t trust Strava’s Random Number Generator for PBs.
It got Alderley Edge 10km as 9.82km (two U-turns)
Wilmslow Half Marathon At 21.01km
Outlaw Marathon at 42.07km
All of which are officially measured courses.
So I generally don’t trust GPS + Strava algorithm
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Found mine yesterday, a fun 5.34
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Taaa.
@fruit_thief my mile time is also 5:19 - other than you being cat A; we are so similar 
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He won’t be Cat A once he starts using his pedals instead of the Saris on Zwift 
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This is true, but the weird thing is that @mw22 has managed to remain in the dream cat (B) despite having the exact same kit, and being a better cyclist.
Oh wait, I know how 
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A low but (mostly) consistent year for me I think. No epic runs or rides or anything remotely close.
Run
Ride - includes fantasy zwift mileage and the odd bit of commuting I used to do. I’ve been using time rather than distance to measure the last couple of years.
Swim - about as good as I can expect. Need to get wet this week though.
Roughly 137 hours and I think we’re in week 22, so 6.2 hours per week for me.
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These weekly number averages are interesting.
2020 - 7hrs my first year of properly getting into things
2021 - 7.5 hrs
2022 - 8.5 hrs…
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Highlighted oddities both on TT… rest are pretty accurate…6w discrepancy over 20 mins at most.
Back on topic:
28 runs 16:30/180km
244 rides (skewed by zwift warm ups) 142 hours/4600km (skewed by zwift)
18 swims 9 hours/25km
7 hours 15 per week
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Doh, maths fail for me, I divided by 26. So my weekly average is actually 6 hours 20
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Im averaging about 10 hours a week on the year to date. I’m down on bike mileage but will have caught back up to where I want to be in around 4/5 weeks.
39 swims for 62,381 metres taking 17 hr 40 m
115 rides for 4,037 kms taking 133 hr 59 m
82 runs for 682 kms taking 57 hr 28 mins
ETA - I’ve definitely had some elevation gain on a few of the sea swims I’ve done too
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Do you have annual volume targets, then?
I never do.
I mean, for an IM year, I’d target an average of 10 hours per week in the 52 weeks into it, but that’s including four weeks of nada.
Standard structure for IM is;
Rec: 8hrs
L1: 10hrs
L2: 12hrs
L3: 15hrs
That’ll be for the last six weeks.
Before that, I’ll move up from a 5hr Rec week / 10hr L3 week into it.
Have a few larger weeks, too.
I reckon with Zwift, that distance targets are utter balderdash now 
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No, not really, I mean I’ve got some goals setup on the Strava app but they’re worthless and I don’t pay any attention to them.
Over the last five or so years I’ve tried to remain as consistent as possible. When I first got into this game I was definitely winging it as a cyclist, doing 15, 16 hour weeks on the bike with token runs and swims thrown in. Now I do around seven hours a week on the bike but with 2/3 swims a week with 3/4 runs.
I’d say I’m a more rounded triathlete now but still bike heavy. Ironically, I’m a stronger cyclist off of less riding time but those years of pounding the bike have given me a solid foundation and it doesn’t take me long to get up to speed from any time off.
This year life has got in the way but seeing 10 hours averaged so far is quite pleasing. I wouldn’t have thought it was that high without checking.
With this 10 week build for Bolton I’ve averaged 11 hours a week so far with 3 weeks to go and a tapir - the next couple will be big so will hopefully push that number up slightly
And yeah, Zwift has killed distance goals making time based goals much more sensible!
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Those are decent numbers so far!
Neither Time nor Distance is a sensible goal, training benefit for aerobic athletes is mostly correlated with kilojoules, so that should be your target surely?
I don’t even have anywhere to check my totals for the year.
Can you spot my focus this year?
Swim:
| Distance | 2,616 m |
|---|---|
| Time | 1h 17m |
| Swims | 2 |
Bike:
| Distance | 369.1 km |
|---|---|
| Time | 17h 6m |
| Elev Gain | 0 m |
| Rides | 30 |
Run:
| Distance | 2,117.6 km |
|---|---|
| Time | 272h 44m |
| Elev Gain | 34,179 m |
| Runs | 169 |
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For many on here - the answer would be swimming with those stats 
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Run
- D: 870 km
- T: 80 h
- EG: 16,500 m
Bike
- D: 2250 km
- T: 87 h
- EG: 19,500 m
Swim
- D: 43 km
- T: 13 h
All 3 under my random targets due to illness and injury!
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