WTK: Any Distance Runners & Road Bikers Here?

[Agile53]

Just curious if we have any distance runners & road bikers here?
Before an achilles flareup last month, 75-100 running per month & biking 100.
Running distance since the '70s (1K per yr) but just started biking in early 2007.
Been out of the saddle until today, got in 30 but still not able to run. Happy to be on
the bike, now to get back to the running. Not a tri fella but sure we have some of
those here as well.
So whom else besides me in the street daily?
Agile53

[DBautista]

Tri-junky here.

Funny thing is... I have never done an official half marathon, but I have done a half ironman distance triathlon! 1.2 mi swim, 56 mi bike, and a 13.1 run.

[beaker1013]

Mountain and road here, but with a family, I'm not out there as much as I'd like to be.


Semper Fi,
Dave

[Agile53]

DBautista-
just helped my son work (timimg) the 1/2 iron in NOLA, their 1st one there & hope they get their act together before next year.
Not the timimg mind you, the overall organization/race management. As a close friend w/ tons of timing/management experience said,
"having 3500 in your FIRST 1/2 iron can only be called greedy".
Hate you tri guys BTW, never done one, and @ 55 doubt I'll ever start now but ............


Beaker1013-
You'll have more time as they get older + you can teach them how to ride. Remember when mine were young, trust me it will all pass waay too quickly.

[beaker1013]

Actually, I've been thinking about getting one of those stoller gizmos that hook up to the seat post. It won't be like a training workout with that thing on the back, but my son would enjoy it.

[RudyN]

I have three road bikes and a Mountain Bike. I manage to get in about 200+ miles a month on the bikes and work out at the gym twice a week. Not to bad for an old guy (65+)

[getchevyn]

Have been running for the last 27 years. I run about 2000 miles a year. Ran 30 marathons in the last 9 years. Fastest marathon time is 2 hours 52 Minutes. Qualify and ran the Boston marathon 4 times. Fastest mile last year at age 42 was 5 Minute 9 seconds. So yeah, I ran alot.

[762tactical]

Actually, I've been thinking about getting one of those stoller gizmos that hook up to the seat post. It won't be like a training workout with that thing on the back, but my son would enjoy it.

Hey, a kid trailer or trail-a-bike can be a serious workout if you live some were with allot of hills!

I was a high end road mechanic in the SF bay area for a LONG time and road thousands of miles on road, fixed gear, BMX, duel slalom and down hill. I'm not much for cross country Mtn bikes? I only run when being chased.

[randolph]

I do about everything.
I ride about 200 miles a week now, mix of road and mountain bikes. I’ve ran a number of marathons, 100 mile kayak events, lots of 2 hour to 3 day adventure races.
Triathlons up to a half M-dot. These days due to being a lazy athlete, biking and paddling is about it, running’s always sucked ;-)

[cervelorider]

Since last summer I have backed way off on volume as I have been into other interests. From '02 to '08 I was doing quiet a bit swim, bike, run, but to be a good triathlete you can't do anything else and I got tired of never having enough time to tackle other hobbies. I'm still on the email list and I just chuckle when I get the weekend schedule, Typical Sat ride 70-80mi mod to hard, run EZ five miles after. Sun run 12mi mod and EZ 2 hour ride after. I have to say I don't miss it. I do miss the incredible amount of fitness I carried around but it really isn't applicable to real-life, not being able to do really physical work (heavy lifting) because I had gotten so lean was imasculating. The ability to drop and lay down a fast 5K or a 40K time trial isn't really appreciated or given a crap about outside the endurance community. I'm 43 and I'm proud that I can now do 100 pushups straight or 5x50 pushups with short rest, and my fast as crap, super fit tri-geek friends can't do anything close to that, I have to pick my battles