Probably less than that then ad the bar was super light. I did think it seemed off as I’m not that strong at all. And the gym is pretty crap and for holiday makers/grannies.
So that fits. I can go back to knowing I don’t have a hidden super talent! 
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If your using the same “ stuff” and the numbers go up and up …, the metrics don’t really matter your improving !
But true you do seem to be able to produce insane bikes and paticulary runs off the back of “ not much “ training !
If you were an Emily Campbell type too! ( possible ) that would just be cruel to us mere mortals!
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I can OHP 35kg right now but its flipping hard work. I have a significant imbalance and so switched to dumbell press and using a weight which is hard for my weak.side.
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Deffo lbs not kgs then. That’s a shame!
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My bench press PR was the following plates (25+15+1.25)kgs×2+20kg
The +20kg being the bar.
I’m not sure it looked as ‘big’ as above.
Although back then it was ‘normal’ to load that many plates, 25 years later a plate each side is the new normal, two bags of sugar looks big these days now I’m as weak as a new born kitten.
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Ive been knocking up the weight by 5 or even 7.5 after starting 5x5 again. Still feeling quite easy. Dont want to wang a load more weight on and bugger my shoulders or knees.
Reckon I can add another 10kg on DL next couple of sessions.
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One gym I was a member of had Lb and Kg plates, you had to be mindfully what you loaded.
Ps I need to find a new gym as mine shut on New Years Eve for good.
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Thr old geezer in my gym was squatting. He’d taken all the plates. Squats 160kg as a warmup.
I’ve seem him max out the leg press woth 25kg plates.
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Myself and Mrs T doing some deadlifting the other day at the gym
I was doing 50kg
The guy on the station next to us maxed out at 170kg
Felt somewhat inadequate (but then remembered that we have only been doing it seriously for a couple of months - he looked like he had been at it for years)
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And he probably can’t run 100km races!
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There’s a couple of young(ish) women who are there regularly and lift 130kg. Strength takes a long time and a lot of consistency
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I use the trap bar to dead lift - find it much more comfortable - up to 70kg now which I find really hard but am sure it will get easier.
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Very much this. Consistency and also eating enough too! I’ve finally added weight on to my squat now and am about at 120kg 1RM, but its taken a while. Plus if your smashing hard running sessions you can’t expect to make big gains in both areas very easily without careful scheduling/programming
Large diameter plates are for the old gits with creaky backs / loose bowels who can’t get all the way down 
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Just watched a short film of Sophia Ellis deadlifting 245kg…amazing!
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My return to the gym lasted 1 day before the puppy intervened. Made it down Saturday morning but got up Sunday to Mrs J saying he’d been up since 5am and was a little f*cker, so me sodding off straight down the gym would definitely be frowned upon.
Anyway, I managed 4x100kg on the Bench Press and 1x50kg (8x40kg) on Military Press so those are my benchmarks going forward this year. I’ll hopefully manage Squats & Deadlifts at some point this week to put a marker down for those too.
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This one always amazes me - 501kg. And given he is 6’9” that’s some distance that load has to travel!
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They often have powerlifting on the TVs at the gym when I’m there and I find the female lifts absolutely mind blowing. Some enormous hairy arsed bloke deadlifting 400kg, somehow seems fair enough but some of the junior girls in particular are really quite slight and still lift incredible weights - in my mind that looks more impressive.
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He made that look easy (ish).
3rd attempt apparently.