mauricemaher wrote:
ericmulk wrote:
mauricemaher wrote:
ericmulk wrote:
mauricemaher wrote:
I think from memory Eric spent a lot of those “1000 hours” via bike commute. To be clear even if it was actually 1k hours per year, that is exorcise not training. Still awesome and would lead to some great low end benefits that you could actually start training from but if you’ve never done that who knows?
Also he never signed up and raced an IM.
Also a mid 10’s in the 90’s would have gotten you in to Kona....pretty much in most age groups if you banged on the door a bit.
Maurice
Nope, zero commuting. Typical day would be starting at about 5 PM: ride 30 miles, run 6 mi, then swim 4000 yds, shower, get home around 9.30 pm, take dog for 1 hr walk, eat, go to be around midnight, sleep 'til 7 am. Weekends Sat would be 5000 yd sw/60 mi bk/14 mi run. Sunday would be 3000/20/4. 3 to 4 days per week I would try to go as hard as I could during last part of each workout.
From memory so perhaps I am confusing you with another poster.
Currently, if you’ll entertain me:
What AG are you in?
Kids or no kids?
Is your work 40 hours/week clock in/clock out or management etc at 50-60 hours
Maurice - I am 64 now, 65 in Jan 2020. Never had any kids. I'm retired now but when I worked I was an engineer and sometimes a manager/leader. I spent a lot of time in the USAF so you were a "leader" not just a "manager". Definitely not a clock in/clock out but generally most places I worked were fine with flex hours.
Also - please see my response to Mark Lemmon above about why I never bothered to try an IM.
OK, new AG in 2020, a bit of spare time, likely the resources (time and financial), lifelong athlete with likely pretty good lifestyle “habits”
You see where I’m going with this right?
Maurice
Ya, I could possibly KQ in the next year or two if I set my mind to it now, espec since Kevin Moats is now "retired", at least in theory. Doping or not, that guy was just flat out fast. However, if I were to KQ next year, that would be after 35 years of trying, during which I've averaged about 700 hr/yr of training. :)
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