That’s impressive! How many days a week are you training like that? I know marathon training is a completely different beast.
-you’ll have intensity days
-long days
-heart rate days
- mixed days
Ya, no running. I did Triathlons back in the day but I wouldn't run now. Far too much chance of injury and I really don't want that.
I'm a simple guy so I don't really mix it and ya, I know I should. It's walk to the gym, stretch, 1 hour of stairs, 1 hour weights, 1 hour rowing machine then walk home. I do it 3-4 days a week depending on what I need to do that day. For me the hard part is not the work out but getting up at 4am to I finish the exercising and then have time to do 'stuff', including seeing some awesome women. By about 2pm I get a little delirious from the exhaustion and lack of sleep.
The other issue is that,
sure, I can do the 3 hours but it just gets more...slower. So for example, the 20th, "455" "zone minutes", 22nd, 315 zone minutes, 24th 334 zone minutes...all sort of consistent with a rest day right? So on the 25th, 265 zone minutes and 223 zone minutes today

Bit of a drop.
The stairs is paced so I can't fake that, the weights really don't drive a lot of heart rate so doesn't really impact the zone minutes but it's the damn rowing machine. I get a little tired and can't push with the legs like I should...