I’ve been following the Approximately how much (sp) calories do you eat a day?
There’s the one who calculates that on an average day he bikes 56 miles, swims 1.2 and may throw in a run for good measure (4-6k calories including 1kg of spuds for dinner) and there’s the full size male who claims he puts on weight when eating more than 1400kcal. I swear some of them are deluded as to what is normal!
“Over the last few months I’ve lost around five pounds getting down towards race weight (IM at end of June) with an average of around 15 hrs/week of training over that time span”
Check his blog, average is “12-14 hours”, which is actually closer to 12.
The toilet break mid-run is one of my favourites, there was one about some bloke creeping in the bushes to answer the call, and comes out in front of a girl he’d be dating
There is a mine of good information on ST, you just have to filter through it. I just cherry pick the good stuff, which is easy to spot to the trained eye. Everything else is just people being blowhards.
They are beyond bonkers. Any with Coggan content is always good for a laugh. Especially when you get someone unwittingly trying to correct him on TSS/NP etc. The FTP is dead thread was great until Mark Liversedge and Coggan started knocking lumps out of each other.
The biggest and worst Twitchunt was the Ashley lady who tried to do 50 IMs in 50 days. Some twat found the hotel she was out and measured the pool length with Google earth.
Some of them are bloody quick like!
Or, in the main, are most of them sub-10hr athletes?
It certainly reads like that.
I worked out the 4K-6k calories per day bloke.
To be fair, with his 21hrs a week training plan, it’s not too bad.
Though the 200g pasta must be cooked weight.
And 1kg potatoes must make you feel a bit lethargic.
His stomach must be huge.
Any rest weeks, if it were me, I’d be climbing the walls with hunger!
So after 4 pages, she finishes IMFL.
Then there’s 13 pages of the witch hunt.
Even the posters know they’re infamous for it, yet they continue to do it!