Well…I’ve twisted my knee walking the dog 
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FFS
That has the odour and acoustic quality of a hessian sack filled with a granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles, commonly found where the ocean meets a land mass.
Hope it mends super quick though 
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Ice and ibuprofen and crossed fingers… 
I like to wear my Blenheim sprint t shirt to Ironman events. I look like a first timer, but no one will know I did 11 of them over a weekend. Fly under the radar, that’s me 
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Even worse than that, it involves much time racing on Zwift with @Daz.
I ride around 300km per week, at this time of year 90% IRL, with a Zwift race that is around FTP level intensity for 40-60 mins. In the off season I was doing 2 or 3 races per week
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But what about swimming 
Wink.
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at the moment 12,000m swimming per week and 70-80km running per week
But that much swimming and running makes me slower on the bike
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That mounts up time wise Matt no wonder you are looking at the pointy end of things !
To be good/fast enough in the first place is one thing but to then really commit to the hours to take it to the start line is serious.
fair play to all athletes who get that slot (you are all in Brownie point debt)
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Even if I had the ability, the chances of staying injury free through that volume and staying married and possibly staying in a job having fallen asleep at my desk numerous times will always count me out.
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6am most weekday mornings
an Hour at lunchtime
3 evenings a week
I swim 7am Saturday, then I help my wife organises a local parkrun at 9am, so get to run and brownie points at the same time, I am allowed to ride for the rest of Saturday morning, so long as I am back by around 1pm. We also organise a monthly Sunday long run, around 20km, so more brownie points and more running. Sunday is family day, although at this time of year my wife likes to swim in the lake, so get another swim training session in then as well.
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I’m always just one run away from injury
For the past 18 months it is an average of 2h23mins training per day
So far in 2021 I have done 4 hours more training than I did by the 23 June in 2020. Basically I am at the limit of whatever time I have free
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Yeah, this is me.
I like to be back to have an actual weekend, too.
Not just riding my bike!
The two 200km rides I did were a special exception, most of my TT bike rides I’ve used annual leave.
But I’m nowhere near your hours
Since April I’m just scraping 11.5hrs average.
6km swimming per week (2hrs)
200km riding (6hrs 40mins)
34km running (2hrs 50mins)
To put that in context, that’s HALF of what most KQers are doing 
Which is 2 to 3 hours every day, from December to October 
Alan Couzens has some great data based articles on this, this one in particular, where he averages his KQers data to give you the picture of what it looks like (plus the link at the start of the fourth paragraph)
https://alancouzens.com/blog/kona_year.html
Then there’s this one from five years ago, this is probably the “de facto” one which all dreamers have read 
But, before even thinking about a KQ, you should at the very least be hitting the benchmarks he has here;
https://alancouzens.com/blog/kona_benchmarks.html
HAPPY READING 
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Apparently. I really doubt those hours are ‘needed’.
Minimum effective dose to get progression, Maximise the value of 10 hpw, then 11phw to progress and so forth.
It’s also a causation/correlation type thing. How many people chase 20hrs a week and blow up thinking it’s what you need to do etc rather than consistency.
Badly worded rushed starting work but hopefully some vague point across there.
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Which self selects his athletes who he prescribes high hours to, and the ones that cope are the ones that succeed. I’d fall apart within a month if I tried that now, despite previously swimming it.
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I’ve always thought that a nonsense - the progression from May to September supposedly takes a 70kg Ironman specific athlete from a 5 minute max power from 270 to 318, now the 270 CP5 is to my mind ludicrous or an KQ 3 months before the event, it’s less than my haven’t really been on a bike for a year power, it’s getting overtaken by a steady stream of people in the park power.
But then you look at running, supposedly this KQ ready athlete 4 months out from their event can manage a 21 minute parkrun, and 4 months later on only specific ironman training they get a sub 18. If a 35 year old man told me he was going to KQ a few months later after seeing him fall over the line on a max effort 21 min parkrun I’d laugh. (I’m not actually convinced 18min 5km is enough to KQ, you’d need some luck surely?)
Maryka’s obviously KQ’d and specifically trained for CP5 improvements, 3 months of CP5 specific training has gained her maybe 5%, yet supposedly 3 months of specific IM training gains you 18%, really?
I really don’t get it - is this the hibernating Northern US individual from the pre-zwift days who do literally no training for a few months a year?
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This how I compare with Alan Cousins Metrics
| Alan Cousins | Matt Current | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| VO2 Max | 65 | 76 | 117% |
| MAF | 00:07:20 | 00:06:40 | 110% |
| 12RM Squat | 121% | no idea | |
| T3000 | 00:52:00 | 00:55:00 | 95% |
| 5K Run Race | 00:17:59 | 00:17:19 | 104% |
| CP5 | 4.55 | 5.8 | 127% |
| CP20 | 3.93 | 5.5 | 140% |
| 112 Bike Sim | 2.64 | 3.3 | 125% |
| Metric Sim | 00:08:20 | 00:07:20 | 114% |
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No pressure then 
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It’s alright, Couzens can just blame that weak swim and pathetic squat!
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So If I go with Cousins (Metrics are for age 25 - 40) I am a slam dunk… however, this is absolutely not the case. I am in good shape, but it really depends who turns up on the day as there a so few slots
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