So, how much ya bench?! Err... how many miles do you bike a week?
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fpugsley posted 16 weeks ago.
About 100 bike miles per week. HIM and below. Most I ever benched - 365; Jr. in high school, 11 years ago.
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kylie posted 16 weeks ago.
I do however much Marky tells me to do :-D
Even when I am cursing his name I keep pedaling ;)
Really, it varies a lot depending on what is coming up. When it is an ultra, the amount of time biking drops. Right after the big race of the year I back off. In the build to a big race it picks up. It looks like in recent history I've been as low as 0 miles in a week, or as high as 210 miles per week.
I find that consistency is the most important with swimming and running, although timewise my training is bike weighted.
Most I ever benched? Um, might be the bar ;) Not sure.
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Anton posted 16 weeks ago.
Right now...about 150 a week, but I'm on a ramp up to some fall shinnanigans. Hope to be at 350 by early September.
How much can I bench? Well...I can tell you WHAT I could bench. When I was in high school (1968-72) and played football we had these trolly wheels in the weight room...yup, narrow gauge train wheels with an axel and everything! I managed to bench them once, and I'm not a big lad! I picked up the front front of a VW bug once, but that was mostly legs and back...
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StephenPDennis posted 16 weeks ago.
Hmmm ... well right now I'm still focusing on marathon races so my biking is mainly for cross-training and for fun so about... 25-35 miles a week? I'm doing about 65 on foot so not to much time to be with the ol' two wheeled wonder.
Benching? Oh... about 130... I'm a monster!!!! GRRRRRR! *flexes pathetically* GRRRRR!
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jhudalla posted 16 weeks ago.
Ha ha, the 'how much ya bench' was supposed to be a joke... it was an old SNL skit with Chris Farley where they all had huge upperbodies and tiny legs. Awe... that was funny. Yeah, I'm 'supposed' to be training for a marathon (Grandmas in Duluth, MN this weekend) but I figure if I put enough miles in on the bike I'll get the same endurance training benefits minus the physical beating that comes with running 40+ miles a week. We'll see how it goes.
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TriSooner posted 16 weeks ago.
As Reagan said, "Trust, but verify." Some people's training log either isn't shared, or their weekly mileage claims don't really match up with their training log. *Cough cough* Click on Training Log, then scroll down to View Shared. In the drop-down menu find the users in question. Of course, they keep their real mileage on another site.
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jhudalla posted 16 weeks ago.
Dayng, thanks for the tip. I didn't know that was even there. So... about not feeling like crap after the bike? I've got a PR half marathon of 1:41:00 and a pr 10k of 43:05, but when it comes to hopping off the bike my legs aren't too happy to be getting going...
Blowing it on the bike?
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TryScott posted 16 weeks ago.
I'm right around the same speed as your half marathon and 10k (1:39:00ish halfway at my marathon and 20:01 5k recently) and I did an unexpected 55 min 10k last week at my triathlon. I'm going to partly blame the bike. Over the last 3 months... only riding 42 mile/wk average. 47% training hours running, and 32% biking so far this year. That needs to change soon.
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UFTriGator posted 16 weeks ago.
I do more frequency and intensity than distance and end up between 150-200 miles per week for Olys. I was doing more last year (sometimes over 300 miles for Sprints/Olys), but I'm faster this year. I'm pretty consistantly over 25 mph avg in races.
I've been running better off the bike by doing a lot of frequency (usually about 7-10 runs per week). I think the higher frequency has made more of a difference than anything else (bricks, track sessions, etc) and I'm running 37-38 off the bike. I'm hoping to run a 36 this weekend, though.
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jsk85 posted 16 weeks ago.
My focus this year is Oly and I'm putting in 60-75 miles in an avg week...getting up to 120 in my peak weeks. Would love to do more, but time constraints
I have never benched more than 155 and am at about 130 right now...awesome especially for a guy who weighs 205 on avg. I use dumbells for bench for the added "stability" (ie saving my pride)
However, about 3 years ago in college I got my squat to where I could do 3 reps at 415 and 20 reps at 330 (the 20 rep workout was the most awful experience ever)...so there
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csaf31 posted 16 weeks ago.
Bike average weekly around 120 while training for olys.
What's a bench press?
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nyfan21 posted 16 weeks ago.
I bench 225 for 14 reps on chest days. I don't go heavier than that...But I know I still could put up 315 once.
Maybe 100 miles
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xc800runner posted 16 weeks ago.
Cycling about 300k / wk at high intensity. Keeping between 36 and 44 kph, with average around 38-39, on short days (40-50k) and 33-38 on longer days in a higher gear and lower HR (80-100k at 65%). This is training for Oly primarily with one Half (Steelhead) in 7 weeks.
My longest bike week ever was 1,276 miles through France. By myself riding from Normandy into Paris with nothing to do but cruise. Averaging around 8-10 hours in the saddle a day, but it was by no means fast.
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jsk85 posted 16 weeks ago.
xc800runner wrote:
Cycling about 300k / wk at high intensity. Keeping between 36 and 44 kph, with average around 38-39, on short days (40-50k) and 33-38 on longer days in a higher gear and lower HR (80-100k at 65%). This is training for Oly primarily with one Half (Steelhead) in 7 weeks.My longest bike week ever was 1,276 miles through France. By myself riding from Normandy into Paris with nothing to do but cruise. Averaging around 8-10 hours in the saddle a day, but it was by no means fast.
Sorry, I just thought it ironic that you (I'm assuming you are american) posted all your information in the metric system...then talked about going through Europe, where that's common and switched to english units.
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UFTriGator posted 16 weeks ago.
xc800runner wrote:
Cycling about 300k / wk at high intensity. Keeping between 36 and 44 kph, with average around 38-39, on short days (40-50k) and 33-38 on longer days in a higher gear and lower HR (80-100k at 65%). This is training for Oly primarily with one Half (Steelhead) in 7 weeks.My longest bike week ever was 1,276 miles through France. By myself riding from Normandy into Paris with nothing to do but cruise. Averaging around 8-10 hours in the saddle a day, but it was by no means fast.
When are you going pro?
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Socket posted 16 weeks ago.
Most I got up to was about 55 miles/week in April. This week I might hit 30-35. I don't have the ambition to give up more time than that right now.
In January I could bench ~160, right now... 130 I'd guess. 60 pushups isn't a problem though. I replaced my lifting with swimming :-)
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fastdog5 posted 16 weeks ago.
jsk85 wrote:
xc800runner wrote:Cycling about 300k / wk at high intensity. Keeping between 36 and 44 kph, with average around 38-39, on short days (40-50k) and 33-38 on longer days in a higher gear and lower HR (80-100k at 65%). This is training for Oly primarily with one Half (Steelhead) in 7 weeks.My longest bike week ever was 1,276 miles through France. By myself riding from Normandy into Paris with nothing to do but cruise. Averaging around 8-10 hours in the saddle a day, but it was by no means fast.
Sorry, I just thought it ironic that you (I'm assuming you are american) posted all your information in the metric system...then talked about going through Europe, where that's common and switched to english units.
And no mention of how many kg you can bench, or how many litres of Gatorade you went through on the France rides!
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xc800runner posted 16 weeks ago.
Sorry about the conversion. You can consider me an imbecile. At the time I was riding in Europe, I had my computer set to english units, and thus recorded everything in that system. I was also living in the US then.
I just spent the last 2 years overseas and have essentially switched to metric. And I'm now racing Olympic distance and prefer to train in the same system in which I race, so that I don't have to think about speeds and pace in other units.
Bench press reps at 80 kg - max 95 - at a weight of 72.
I hope to go pro after the one race I'm doing that will actually give me a shot -- Accenture Chicago in late August. With the USAT regulations for getting your elite card, it's the only shot I have (unless I qualify for 70.3 worlds, or win age group nationals...). The extreme flatness should be good for me, as well as all the top being in Beijing a couple weeks before the race. So long as Bennet races at about the same pace as last year, I'll only need to go 1:55 (with a 2 min T1 due to a long run from the swim exit to transition).
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jsk85 posted 16 weeks ago.
xc800runner wrote:
I hope to go pro after the one race I'm doing that will actually give me a shot -- Accenture Chicago in late August. With the USAT regulations for getting your elite card, it's the only shot I have (unless I qualify for 70.3 worlds, or win age group nationals...). The extreme flatness should be good for me, as well as all the top being in Beijing a couple weeks before the race. So long as Bennet races at about the same pace as last year, I'll only need to go 1:55 (with a 2 min T1 due to a long run from the swim exit to transition).
I would be there to cheer you on to pro-ness, but I will still be on the course...only a 1:55 in an Oly is something I will never be heard saying. GL though, I'll be ecstatic for a clydesdale top 3 finish myself
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UFTriGator posted 16 weeks ago.
xc800runner wrote:
I hope to go pro after the one race I'm doing that will actually give me a shot -- Accenture Chicago in late August. With the USAT regulations for getting your elite card, it's the only shot I have (unless I qualify for 70.3 worlds, or win age group nationals...). The extreme flatness should be good for me, as well as all the top being in Beijing a couple weeks before the race. So long as Bennet races at about the same pace as last year, I'll only need to go 1:55 (with a 2 min T1 due to a long run from the swim exit to transition).
I was thinking about going to that race (you'll probably be catching me on the run if your wave start isn't too far behind). I'm glad I went pro last year.....this year's quals are soooo much harder!
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PrinceofClydes posted 16 weeks ago.
My log says I ramped it up to over 200kms/wk starting in mid-May, logged an average of 150kms/wk before that, weather was sketchy late March early April, but I should be over 300kms/wk beginning with next week - including a 7k climb up Silver Star Mtn. once daily.
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xc800runner posted 16 weeks ago.
UFTriGator wrote:
I was thinking about going to that race (you'll probably be catching me on the run if your wave start isn't too far behind). I'm glad I went pro last year.....this year's quals are soooo much harder!
If you're racing in the pro field and I'm passing you on the run, I would have had a miserable time swimming/biking. I believe the pros go of at noon, with the age groupers starting at 7. Hopefully it won't take me 6 1/2 hours to start the run, but with 8,000 bikes in transition, who knows...
I'm curious as to how many miles peeps are biking. Specifically what is your peak weekly distances for your respective race, and what were your results... ie dead legs, or fresh as a dove.
Me -> peak weeks so far have been around 250... I want to keep it at this level for a HIM so I can hit the run feeling fresh... opinions?
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