Well, I brief review (and by brief, I mean BRIEF) of your charts shows me one thing: training more makes a person faster. Your training time hasn't gone down, even though you aren't running as much (so you keep reminding us). How do you know it wasn't the increase in swimming that made you faster starting in January? Or maybe it was the increased time on the bike, PC's or not?
Also, from weeks 1-15, you were only averaging 15.3-15.4 miles per week running. Weeks 16-47 you were averaging almost 11 miles per week running. That's HARDLY a big drop in mileage to say over and over again how little you've been running compared to before. Last year (for the whole year) you only averaged 15.4 miles per week running.
You averaged 68 miles per week for all of 2006 on your bike, but over 90 miles per week so far in 2007 on your bike.
You averaged over 4.1 hours per week in the pool in 2007, 2006 only got about 2.5 hours per week in the pool, 2005 only found you in the pool .95 hours per week.
NOW FOR THE KICKER: Let's look at your running chart: In 2005 you averaged about 1.88 hours of running per week. Guess what you've been averaging in 2007...wait for it....1.93! Your running TIME hasn't decreased at all compared to 2005! In 2006 you averaged about 2.3 hours, so your average weekly running has gone down about 20 minutes per week compared to 2006.
YOU NO LONGER GET TO TELL US ABOUT HOW LITTLE RUNNING YOU DO! YOU WEREN'T RUNNING TO START WITH AND ARE ONLY RUNNING 20 MIN LESS PER WEEK NOW!
Looking at your chart, if the PC's DID in fact help, it could easily be attributed to the extra volume and the PC's we're "just along for the ride". Same could be said for extra swimming, biking on regular cranks (or PC's), or running. Your volume is very similar to mine weekly, and we'll both greatly benefit from the famous ST More is More mantra (assuming we don't get injured).
One final note, let's look at your average weekly training time:
2005: 6.07 hours
2006: 8.89 Hours
2007: 11.5 hours
Shocker! You got faster from training more!!! Holy crap, how could this be?! You've nearly doubled your hourly training in 2007 compared to 2005.
This is FAR from conclusive that PC's helped. If I were Frank I'd be asking you to pipe down a little bit.
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"Lemond is cycling's version of Rev Jessie Jackson." -johnnyperu 5/18/07
"Just because I suck doesn't mean my bike has to" -rickn 9/2/08
Also, from weeks 1-15, you were only averaging 15.3-15.4 miles per week running. Weeks 16-47 you were averaging almost 11 miles per week running. That's HARDLY a big drop in mileage to say over and over again how little you've been running compared to before. Last year (for the whole year) you only averaged 15.4 miles per week running.
You averaged 68 miles per week for all of 2006 on your bike, but over 90 miles per week so far in 2007 on your bike.
You averaged over 4.1 hours per week in the pool in 2007, 2006 only got about 2.5 hours per week in the pool, 2005 only found you in the pool .95 hours per week.
NOW FOR THE KICKER: Let's look at your running chart: In 2005 you averaged about 1.88 hours of running per week. Guess what you've been averaging in 2007...wait for it....1.93! Your running TIME hasn't decreased at all compared to 2005! In 2006 you averaged about 2.3 hours, so your average weekly running has gone down about 20 minutes per week compared to 2006.
YOU NO LONGER GET TO TELL US ABOUT HOW LITTLE RUNNING YOU DO! YOU WEREN'T RUNNING TO START WITH AND ARE ONLY RUNNING 20 MIN LESS PER WEEK NOW!
Looking at your chart, if the PC's DID in fact help, it could easily be attributed to the extra volume and the PC's we're "just along for the ride". Same could be said for extra swimming, biking on regular cranks (or PC's), or running. Your volume is very similar to mine weekly, and we'll both greatly benefit from the famous ST More is More mantra (assuming we don't get injured).
One final note, let's look at your average weekly training time:
2005: 6.07 hours
2006: 8.89 Hours
2007: 11.5 hours
Shocker! You got faster from training more!!! Holy crap, how could this be?! You've nearly doubled your hourly training in 2007 compared to 2005.
This is FAR from conclusive that PC's helped. If I were Frank I'd be asking you to pipe down a little bit.
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"Lemond is cycling's version of Rev Jessie Jackson." -johnnyperu 5/18/07
"Just because I suck doesn't mean my bike has to" -rickn 9/2/08
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brandonecpt: Nov 23, 07 7:46