2020 393h 50m
2021 456h 3m
2022 342h 41m
Imagine if I’d spent that time gardening instead?
I need an app that assigns gardening and DIY workouts/tasks in 1hr chunks, with an overall plan of creating a vineyard.
Combined TSS (which we know is meaningless) (sTSS TSS hrTSS (run lift))
2020 24035
2021 26238
2022 19341
Wasn’t so long ago it was 300kms a week commuting - those were the days eh!
Up to the end of April I have clocked 168, with 8 or so weeks leading up to Bolton I should have had a decent opening six months
Was there a general structure to how that time was split up or did it vary a lot? Eg every Sunday morning 5hr bike ride etc.
I have to structure my training time a lot regardless of how much time, to avoid it getting taken over by other stuff.
I’m completely unstructured. There’s no plan. But seem to be heading towards doing 2 activities per day most days: one in the morning and one in the evening.
206 activities over 128 days so far this year. It might have been more , but I was out of run action for nearly 3 weeks with a sprained ankle.
Think part of this is a response to the heat and the strength of the sun here: I don’t want to be out much after 8am or before 4pm. Also after 40 or 50 minutes I’m cooked, and have never really had a long concentration span when it comes to exercise anyway.I much prefer frequent short sessions to fewer long ones, guess this is one of the reasons why Alan Couzens wont be knocking on the door with a plane ticket to Kona any time soon 
average duration = 37 minutes
When I actually trained I was unstructured, family life dictated I squeeze something in when I could but I made sure lunchtimes I always either swam or ran, and commuted by bike, 2 x 18k rides a day. Long rides were occasional but involved if I CBA to go out at 6am alone usually or took a “secret” day off work so didn’t get DIY to do ;-). I had a general idea of what needed to be done, but if I was tired I wouldn’t run hill reps but just have an easy 30min run instead.
Glad I am not the only one who takes secret days off work.
He can get stuffed if he thinks I’m doing a ~9 hour weekly ride. Or getting approval for it even if I had the legs.
(His latest that your weekly long ride should be 3x average daily duration)
Oh sweet. Mine only needs to be about 2.50 then! 
tritalk bubble alert
“only” nearly 3 hours of hard effort in the saddle
about a fifth of the day’s waking hours 
He won’t actually do that though remember, he’s just pointing out couzens 9 hour gibberish, he’s gonna do a 30 minutes cycling (ride to the start and a 10 mile tt…)
There used to be a dairy right near the start, so I imagine he’ll have to park there out of brand loyalty… So might even manage to get under 30minutes with a good TT.
I do at least 45mins walking daily!
Typo?
Not this time, no.
One of the many benefits of being married is a nice evening walk 
Not a huge surprise considering the number of people that can’t even be arsed to get out of their car and walk across the car park in maccies or Starbucks
I somehow ended up following this guy on Strava after Maastricht last year, fairly sure he had a great time. This kind of ride is pretty regular but he seems to be around 600k PW and some of it is gravel riding.
He must have a lot of free time and comfortable saddle!
I think it all stemmed from this post. whilst it may seem good on the surface, sometimes I think he forgets that not all of us have 5 hrs a day to train and then recover from
"Ironman fundamentals:
To stand a chance of maintaining z2 for the full 9+hrs of an Ironman race, you need to be able to build the aerobic endurance to…
- Complete 9hrs in z1
- Complete 6hrs in z2
… as regular “nothing special” training days.
Ignore this simple principle at your own risk."
le nackers by name and by nature
Uh, he’s posting that is he? I following him on Twitter, but generally scroll past.
I think he just says this stuff to get attention tbh.
That ride is perilously close to the Ruhrgebeit i.e. very built up. I did the German Language course at the blue dot. I never headed east from there:
Yeah, it’s their industrial heartland isn’t it? I was around that area last summer and there’s a lot of big cities. He clearly knows the roads well though.
