Statistics

For the stats fans among us, here are the raw numbers from the 2010/2011 season: Bike: 360h / 10,262km Run: 233h / 2,856km Swimming: 112h / 340km Total: 705h / 13,458km For comparison — my car mileage in the same period: 9,009km

Or: what did it actually take to show up at the start line on Sunday reasonably prepared? After pulling the numbers together I was genuinely shocked by how much of my life I’d burned through for this — not meant negatively, I did all of it voluntarily and very, very, very, very happily. A few general notes first: Season start: early October 2010, unstructured, with alternative sports like inline skating Structured training start: mid-January 2011, calendar week 3 All data from season start through 22.07.2011 I train by hours, not kilometers — so all figures are in hours, with kilometers as a side note in parentheses And now for the facts: ...