20 déc. 2016

Triathlon and Winning

The concept of winning has different meanings following the enlarged diversity in western societies.  Winning has to do with meeting the goals and the goals are different depending on the people.  Trump is here for at least four years and the Mexicans are concerned about the consequences.  Well, it is not the same for every Mexican.  Since I was born I know that the enemy is at home, our governing class, including our justice system.  Trump knows that most of them are corrupted and involved in illegal businesses.  Trump in power is like a red light in their head; somebody else above my helper knows they are corrupted.  My helper knows that nothing will change for her with Trump in power.  Goals are different, the job pursued will be there for her because it is an honest one. The others will be worried because the cake gets limited and observed.  We have to augment our honesty index pressured by the circumstances if we want to achieve goals.  Please see previous post.

The President of the Track and Field Mexican Federation was detained because he has not given details of how he used $250.000.00 dollars.  He is a scapegoat because frauds exist in all the Mexicans Federations; except that the others considered paying a lawyer and an accountant to look like they are not stealing money or working for the athletes.  Lozano hired his “buddies” to do the accounts and the legal matters and he ended up in jail.  By the way, the amount claimed must be at least three times more, but the Mexican authorities did not work hard enough to find the rest missing.  Unfortunately, this is not the main problem.  The problem is the obstruction, the inefficiency, the arrogance and the mediocrity surrounding these people.  Juan Luis Barrios said what I mentioned long before it happened:
“Aunque ya tiene la marca requerida, e incluso cumple con el tiempo para los Juegos Olímpicos en los 10 mil metros, Barrios debe respetar las reglas. Hace poco me presentó su renuncia como becario de CIMA, pero espero no hacerla válida. Ojalá nos podamos juntar con Bernardo de la Garza para que todo se solucione”…
En caso de que Barrios decidiera no asistir a la evaluación que se llevará a cabo en el estadio Roberto Tapatío Méndez de la UNAM, podría incluso perder la oportunidad de asistir a los Juegos Olímpicos.

“No creo que sea sano dejar fuera de los Panamericanos a nuestro mejor atleta y perder la oportunidad de sumar al medallero. En mi época sólo se trataba de dar la marca, no de asistir a Nacionales, pero tenemos que adecuarnos. Estoy optimista en que todo se resolverá para bien y no habrá necesidad de que pierda el ciclo”.

Are they going after all the Mexican Federations because they do not do their job?  I doubt it, most of the problems are revenges for old matters; they do not care about athletes and performance.  Augmenting the honesty index is the only thing that could help us improve as a nation and as triathletes.  It is the only way to win:

2015
[10]2014[11]2013[12]2012[13]RankCountry
or
TerritoryScore
Change in score from previous yearScoreChange in score from previous yearScoreChange in score from previous yearScore
1
91
Decrease 1
92
Increase 1
91
Increase 1
90
2
90
Increase 1
89
Steady 0
89
Decrease 1
90
3
89
Increase 2
87
Decrease 2
89
Increase 1
88
4
88
Decrease 3
91
Steady 0
91
Increase 1
90
5
87
Increase 4
83
Steady 0
83
Decrease 1
84
6
87
Increase 1
86
Steady 0
86
Increase 1
85
7
86
Steady 0
86
Increase 1
85
Decrease 1
86
8
85
Increase 1
84
Decrease 2
86
Decrease 1
87
9
83
Increase 2
81
Steady 0
81
Decrease 3
84
97
35
Steady 0
35
Increase 1
34
Steady 0
34


I let you with the enjoyment of listening to Carlos Slim interviewed by Larry King.  Many things to learn from him for good or bad:

16 déc. 2016

Triathlon and Violence

This comes after Ana Guevara, silver medalist in Athens, 400 meters, was attacked and hurt while riding her motorcycling.  Violence in Mexico?  Attack by somebody?  Thousands of people disappeared in the last ten years and governing class has done nothing, except for making it worst and increasing their own guards.  We have had billions of dollars stolen by the governing class including the Senate, most of the Mexican states are broke.  Less than 1% of the crimes are solved in Mexico.  The more crimes unsolved including and foremost, the ones done by the Senate and the governing class accentuate the problem.
We assume that punishment has a dissuasive effect on the population, although not necessarily on the convict. Thus, whenever a criminal is convicted, the honesty index of all the population but the criminal, is increased by a fixed amount δH. Convicted criminals do not change their honesty level. On the contrary, when the crime is not punished, the entire population but the criminal decrease their honesty index by δH, while the criminal decreases his by 2δH: unpunished criminals become even less honest.

Carmen Aristegui, the one that documented the “gift” given to the President´s spouse in Mexico (the Mexican White House), tried to persuade Ana Guevara to think and act intelligently by considering a passive aggressive stand from the governing class regarding this matter:
Passive aggressive behaviour takes many forms but can generally be described as a non-verbal aggression that manifests in negative behavior. It is where you are angry with someone but do not or cannot tell them. Instead of communicating honestly when you feel upset, annoyed, irritated or disappointed you may instead bottle the feelings up, shut off verbally, give angry looks, make obvious changes in behaviour, be obstructive, sulky or put up a stone wall. It may also involve indirectly resisting requests from others by evading or creating confusion around the issue. Not going along with things. It can either be covert (concealed and hidden) or overt (blatant and obvious).

Ana called up the athletes that were obstructed by the Mexican Sport Federations, broadcasting the meeting in YouTube.  Nothing has happened after the meeting except that the athletes are vulnerable to persecution by the Mexican authorities the athletes accused.  Big fishes are not touchable and we need big fishes facing charges in order to increase the honesty index of the population.  As a population, we can increase our honesty index by making them just to face charges because our honesty index is too low.  We have narco-governors, narco-deputies, narco-senators.  The criminals on wheels, like the ones attacking Ana are a part of the chain but the little ones.


Go for the big fishes Ana, please.

1 déc. 2016

Triathlon and the Three-Day-Competition

Looking at numbers and knowing that good money was available to competitors at The Island House Triathlon, we can say that this competition becomes very important and promotes the best performance from athletes.  The prior year (2015), Javier Gómez won the race over Richard Murray and Cameron Dye.  Richard and Cam are considered examples of athletes that compete to their best ability, as well as Javi.  What do we learn by looking at their numbers in this competition?

Cam should work on his running technique.  He is a hard working athlete but strength is not the problem, he needs to improve efficiency.  From the records we can see that he cannot perform running in a sprint or Olympic distance triathlons.  His biking ability is easily compared with the best we see in triathlon as long as it is not a course like the one in Hamburg; he does not practice half a minute or minute all out.  His swimming is not too shabby.  Cam based on his biking ability was able to take second in this year competition.  He spends too much time on the floor when running; it means that he has a poor technique running.  He practiced to run faster (meaning short distances from last year) but he needs to practice more technique to improve efficiency.
 
Richard is very predictable, runs the same after the bike and from the three days we can infer that his mileage training is high.  He also needs to practice technique while running; he has not improved for the last five years, contrary to Javi.  Javi and Richard have been at the top of their game for many years without falling, and improving in different areas.  Running in the case of Javi, and swimming in the case of Richard.


This is the kind of research it can be done in triathlon which gives information about how to improve.  This research is “real and useful” as long as we have had reviewed the past very thoroughly.  We have done it.
RSA
M-PRO
1
00:39:04
01:54:19
01:02:12
03:35:34.8
USA
M-PRO
2
00:39:04
01:50:19
01:06:41
03:36:04.0
AUS
M-PRO
3
00:38:34
01:53:57
01:05:42
03:38:12.9
NZL
M-PRO
4
00:39:32
01:52:14
01:06:33
03:38:18.7
USA
M-PRO
5
00:38:20
01:54:12
01:06:03
03:38:34.7
               


MALE
1
1
00:32:43
01:35:45
00:59:54
03:08:21.1
MALE
2
2
00:34:20
01:34:30
01:00:53
03:09:42.9

  MALE
3
3
00:34:45
01:34:11
01:02:18
03:11:13.3

MALE
4
4
00:33:15
01:33:05
01:05:39
03:11:58.8

MALE
5
5
00:35:12
01:35:20
01:02:24
03:12:55.5