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Serious bike and cross training by a WC marathon qualifier
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https://www.athleticsweekly.com/...sh-jones-1039923079/

“For the last three years I’ve been doing about 70% of my training on the bike and up to 400km a week on the bike, which is sometimes more than triathletes do, but it’s partly due to where I live,” she says.

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Re: Serious bike and cross training by a WC marathon qualifier [IT] [ In reply to ]
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IT wrote:
https://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/persistence-pays-off-for-tish-jones-1039923079/

“For the last three years I’ve been doing about 70% of my training on the bike and up to 400km a week on the bike, which is sometimes more than triathletes do, but it’s partly due to where I live,” she says.

While 400km may not sound like much on a bike for an elite person like that, to emphasize, the article said "mountain bike". Not road bike.

If so, that's a whole different level of 400km of bike work per week than cruising on a tri bike at 20+mph and only 160w. It could possibly be up to 50% more hours than on a road/tri bike to reach that 400km.
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Re: Serious bike and cross training by a WC marathon qualifier [burnthesheep] [ In reply to ]
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burnthesheep wrote:
IT wrote:
https://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/persistence-pays-off-for-tish-jones-1039923079/

“For the last three years I’ve been doing about 70% of my training on the bike and up to 400km a week on the bike, which is sometimes more than triathletes do, but it’s partly due to where I live,” she says.


While 400km may not sound like much on a bike for an elite person like that, to emphasize, the article said "mountain bike". Not road bike.

If so, that's a whole different level of 400km of bike work per week than cruising on a tri bike at 20+mph and only 160w. It could possibly be up to 50% more hours than on a road/tri bike to reach that 400km.

Tru dat, as my youngest would say.

Indoor Triathlete - I thought I was right, until I realized I was wrong.
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