TRIATHLON ITU VERSUS FRENCH GRAND PRIX

Let’s do sociological research, using useful forms TO DO RESEARCH instead of the quantified research that gives very little practical information.  We have spoken about George Vaillant and his longitudinal research for decades on different populations.  We can research on these subjects longitudinally.

George Eman Vaillant, M.D. (born 1934) is an American psychiatrist and Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Vaillant has spent his research career charting adult development and the recovery process of schizophrenia, heroin addiction, alcoholism, and personality disorder. He has spent the last 30 years as Director of the Study of Adult Development at the Harvard University Health Service. The study has prospectively charted the lives of 824 men and women for over 60 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eman_Vaillant

The same winners for the sprint distance triathlon are for the Olympic distance triathlon, as we pointed out on previous postings regarding speed needed to win a triathlon.  The only different between sprint and Olympic distances is that RESISTANCE TO SPEED IS NEEDED TO WIN AN OLYMPIC DISTANCE.  This is a historical approach to plan training for champions.  SPEED is the first thing to achieve; SECOND, ENDURANCE TO SPEED.  Australians were the best when they had the Australian Grand Prix where they practiced speed.  The French Grand Prix works the same for the ones who entered it at a young age like the Brownlees.

The first six at Dunkerque this last Sunday 4/26/2013.

00001   BROWNLEE JONATHA       00:55:03.80    SE      00001   M       00:08:54       00001        01m11   00:00:33       00:29:25       00002   00002   -0001   42.83   00:00:22        00:15:49       00007   00001   03m09   00001          0       GBR     00006   EC SARTROUVILLE TRI      

00002   MOLA DIAZ MARIO        00:55:17.48    SE      00002   M       00:09:20       00025        01m14   00:00:27       00:30:03       00042   00021   00004   41.93   00:00:23        00:15:04       00001   00019   03m00   00002   00:00:14       ESP     00007   EC SARTROUVILLE TRI      

00003   RAPHAEL AURELIEN       00:55:29.30    SE      00003   M       00:08:56       00002        01m11   00:00:29       00:29:27       00005   00003   -0001   42.78   00:00:26        00:16:11       00025          03m14   00003   00:00:26       FRA     00018   POISSY TRI           

00004   AUSTIN MARC            00:55:38.21    JU      00001   M       00:08:59       00007        01m11   00:00:30       00:29:24       00001   00005   00002   42.85   00:00:22        00:16:23       00028   00001   03m16   00004   00:00:35       GBR     00057        VERSAILLES TRI        

00005   PUJADES ANTHONY        00:55:45.05    SE      00004   M       00:08:58       00004        01m11   00:00:28       00:29:26       00003   00001   00003   42.80   00:00:20        00:16:33       00036   -0004   03m18   00005   00:00:42       FRA     00002   LES SABLES VENDEE T

00006   JUSTUS STEFFEN         00:55:51.25    SE      00005   M       00:09:08       00012        01m13   00:00:27       00:30:12      

FEMALES

00001   STANFORD NON                   01:00:07.55    F       SE      00001   00:09:48        00004   01m18   00:32:38       00006   00006   -0002   38.61   00:17:41       00001        00005   03m32   01:00:07       00001          0       GBR     00007   TCG79 PARTHENAY                

00002   HEWITT ANDREA                  01:01:06.80    F       SE      00002   00:09:54        00010   01m19   00:32:31       00002   00002   00008   38.74   00:18:41       00009           03m44   01:01:06       00002   00:00:59       NZL     00003   POISSY TRI             

00003   HARRISON JESSICA               01:01:06.83    F       SE      00003   00:09:46        00001   01m18   00:32:39       00008   00004   -0003   38.59   00:18:41       00010        00001   03m44   01:01:06       00003   00:00:59       FRA     00001   POISSY TRI                     

00004   BETTO ALICE                    01:01:10.22    F       SE      00004   00:09:50        00007   01m18   00:32:35       00004   00003   00004   38.67   00:18:45       00012   -0001    03m45   01:01:10       00004   00:01:03       ITA     00008   TCG79 PARTHENAY        

00005   BAZLEN SVENJA                  01:01:15.71    F       SE      00005   00:09:51        00008   01m18   00:32:33       00003   00001   00007   38.70   00:18:51       00014   -0004    03m46   01:01:15       00005   00:01:08       GER     00013   TCC 36                 

00006   OLIVEIRA PAMELA                01:01:27.02    F       SE      00006   00:09:47        00002   01m18   00:32:39       00007   00007  

We have posted something previously regarding history which should be useful. 

16 avr. 2012 WHAT A CYBERNETIC TRIATHLON HISTORY IS

History should be written to avoid falling into a trap (See Mental Fatigue, January 25, 2012, in this blog).  I went to a conference dictated by León-Portilla, Wikipedia says: Miguel León-Portilla (born in Mexico City, February 22, 1926) is a Mexican anthropologist and historian, and a prime authority on Nahuatl thought and literature.  During the conference, he mentioned: “I found an Aztec Codices in a remote village, but it was written in a “Scribe” notebook; I asked for the original and they answered: ‘We copied the old one into this scribe. It was impossible to keep the old one’…THIS IS HISTORY.” 
 

Human beings are getting faster for centuries.  In endurance sports athletes can compete for longer than an hour above 90% of their capacity.  VO2 max should be high and according to our training.  If we train slow pace, even if our VO2 max is high we compete at a slow pace (see VO2 Max and The Second Sin, February 26, 2012, in this blog).  As part of History, Victor Plata, our friend spoke about the need of teamwork in triathlon in and out of competition.  He even proofed that it works.  We have done it with our athletes since the beginning of our team.  The better the athletes understand and feel teamwork, the better the results.  Sports and live itself have become more and more tactical.  We need a good teamwork in order to achieve our dreams.  Without teamwork Cris Boardman would not break the record for the hour cycling or Armstrong would not win seven times in a row the Tour de France.  Gregory Bateson spoke about it in the 70’s, Mind and Nature, 1979.  “Too much schooling and little education” happens in sports also.  Lack of teamwork has to do with little education.

In addition to speed, we know that there is a curve followed by athletes to develop resistance to speed.  Gallen Rupp does 200 meters reps on 26; 400 meters reps in just above 52, in order to run the 5,000 meters in less than 13 minutes and the 10,000 meters in less than 27 minutes.  There are not short cuts and no possibility of running a below 27 minutes 10,000 meters if there is no speed to do 200 meters reps in 26 seconds.

TRIATHLON AND PETER’S DENIAL

We have been speaking about how difficult it is to teach.  We know that the majority of our children just listen, but they are not willing to believe or to pursue what they heard or saw.  Humans got to this point of apathy after so much disappointment on daily basis.  Children are less innocent and less experienced; bad combination that end up in failure to have a "good life."  My patients with panic attacks are the best example of what happens with the learning process we see in children.  They know and have been told that there is nothing physically wrong with them, but they end up in the emergency room because they think they have a heart attack.  That is why Albert Einstein said: “Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.” Jacques Lacan said before his death, after speaking most of his life about “the unconscious:” “L’amour, l’amour…c’est pour ça qu’on a inventé l’ inconscient (Jacques Lacan, Le Seminaire, Livre XX; 11).” Nowadays: stubbornness, laziness (even to think) and stupidity (we have facts but do not want to believe) have created the unconscious, and not love as Lacan said.

We spoke about Jan Frodeno,  22 avr. 2013 San Diego and Auckland Triathlons .  We know how fast he can ride and needs to ride in order to position him to run at the front.  Why we do not train the bicycle accordingly to be competitive.  370 watts average for an hour that is what is needed.  Depending on whether one wants to have a “wet run,” we need to be able to average close to 400 watts an hour to be able to have a “good wet run,” this is what is needed for a flat course as San Diego.  Stubbornness, laziness and stupidity prevent us for achieving the goal of cycling at a competitive level.  We can have excuses, which make the unconscious, but at the end, those three things are “what are making our unconscious.”  Swimming and running can give us certain advantage (running can make us win the race); but not being able to average 370 while riding the bike is a waste of time because we are not in a position of running or we cannot do a wet run.

We have seen what is mentioned above at the World Cup of Huatulco, where the winners came out of the water a minute behind.

TRIATHLON AND RESEARCH II

In Part 1 of triathlon and research we spoke about the one subject research and mentioned as a matter of conclusion: “That is the reason why we have ONE SUBJECT EXPERIMENTATION; we can point out the kind of educational handicap.”

How we go about it?  How we do it?  There is an interesting research done by George Vaillant for decades.  Vaillant has followed patients for decades to find out about the NATURAL HISTORY OF LIFE.  One needs a lot of support to do this kind of research; fortunately he has done this for us.

George Eman Vaillant, M.D. (born 1934) is an American psychiatrist and Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Vaillant has spent his research career charting adult development and the recovery process of schizophrenia, heroin addiction, alcoholism, and personality disorder. He has spent the last 30 years as Director of the Study of Adult Development at the Harvard University Health Service. The study has prospectively charted the lives of 824 men and women for over 60 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eman_Vaillant

Valliant’s most interesting research is related to defense mechanisms which were based on his research of the NATURAL HISTORY of a cohort of Harvard students studied by him for decades:

In George Eman Vaillant's (1977) categorization, defences form a continuum related to their psychoanalytical developmental level.^[14] Vaillant's levels are:

• Level I - pathological defences (i.e. psychotic denial, delusional projection)
• Level II - immature defences (i.e. fantasy, projection, passive aggression, acting out)
• Level III - neurotic defences (i.e. intellectualization, reaction formation, dissociation, displacement, repression)
• Level IV - mature defences (i.e. humour, sublimation, suppression, altruism, anticipation)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanisms

He divided the mechanism according to “the level of success in life,” achieved by subjects he studied.  We based most of my judgments on the findings done by Vaillant.  Certain defense mechanisms are needed for success and Vaillant considered them mature. 

His 1977 book, Adaptation to Life, depicted the men at midlife and analyzed their personalities in terms of a hierarchy of defense mechanisms—characteristic ways of handling emotional conflict and stress—that ranged from low-level, immature defenses like blatant denial and passive aggression to mature adaptations such as altruism, humor, and the sublimation of energies into art. Now, in Aging Well, he writes that “…it is social aptitude, not intellectual brilliance or parental social class, that leads to successful aging.” Furthermore, the habitual use of these mature coping styles—ways of “making a lemon into lemonade,” in his words—is, in psychological and social terms, the most powerful predictor of successful aging.

http://harvardmagazine.com/2001/03/the-talent-for-aging-wel-html

We studied our athletes according to the defense mechanisms they use to predict success.  When struggling for high performance goals, the mature mechanisms are needed to get there.  Success is related to these mechanisms and less so on physical atributes.