Wow, that's 40k km a year!YMCA said:Most pros are doing 20-25,000 miles a year. Quite often more, rarely less.
alpha2k said:How many miles a pro cyclist typically rides in a season or one year? Anyone has any idea on it?
thanks
limerickman said:Nicole Cook (British female cyclist and GT winner) on the BBC Sports Awards in December 2006 said "I'm doing between 200-250 miles training per week now (off season) and when training begins that will move up to between 400 - 500 miles per week"
So 20,000 miles per year is a fair enough quesstimate.
jcjordan said:Lot more then my 400-500km a week
Roadie_scum said:There are pro's doing that amount.
With some pros it also probably depends on what they take for recovery in between these efforts.bladegeek said:Lance wrote in his book he was doing 27,000-30,000 miles a year.
Hoursalpha2k said:How many miles a pro cyclist typically rides in a season or one year? Anyone has any idea on it?
thanks
So what's a "typical" roadie Pro's TSS for a year?acoggan said:Mileage is so old school.
jcjordan said:Lot more then my 400-500km a week
jcjordan said:I would expect that most of them are doing alot more. The almost pro guys that I have met are doing upwards of 1000km
limerickman said:The main thing is JC, you're out doing the distances that you're doing : and that's good.
Of course, you could instead sitback and wtach England getting blasted in the Ashes and Twenty 20 !!
Roadie_scum said:Maybe if they did 400-600km of the right kind of training they would be actual pro's instead of almost pro's.
I'm putting my guess out there for pro TSS:
Mean: 43750
Std Dev: 3125
Two std devs either side of the mean gives 37,500-50,000.
I reckon we play guessing games and then if Andy in his goodwill and grace deems it right, we get the answer...
Whew, there are some interesting answers here. Here are my thoughts/experiences:Roadie_scum said:Maybe if they did 400-600km of the right kind of training they would be actual pro's instead of almost pro's.
I'm putting my guess out there for pro TSS:
Mean: 43750
Std Dev: 3125
Two std devs either side of the mean gives 37,500-50,000.
I reckon we play guessing games and then if Andy in his goodwill and grace deems it right, we get the answer...
RipVanCommittee said:Whew, there are some interesting answers here. Here are my thoughts/experiences:
1)Miles/Km's is, indeed, misleading, since it's easy to rack up some 350-450 miles a week while racing--but a lot of that may be in the bunch, and the actual stress may be a lot less than you'd think
2)I think your standard deviation is a little off
It depends to what you're referring when you say 'pro', but it's possible to race as a US domestic pro on nearly half that, 25,000 TSS, even for a racer racing consistently from Feb. thru Sept.
We can argue all day about what is 'optimal', but the 'requirements' aren't nearly as high as some are making them out to be.
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