Madrid World Cup Review

MADRID, MADRID, MADRID...

In the 60´s and 70´s there was a Mexican melancholy and a Mexican singer has this song (Agustín Lara).  My own mother was melancholic when listening to this music; even though she married a Mexican-Jewish-French descendant.  Searching for “mama” in the melancholy would say a psychoanalyst.  This is the way human beings behave, searching for mama in times of stress.  Even that Mexico was a lot better than Spain at that time.  Wait for what it’s coming from the EUROZONE business, the wave is moving back to America or spreading around the world and Mexico will be better even with this drug dealing and corruption problems; not because we are doing things right.  The reason is that people are becoming “lighter” and “lighter” around the world.  Carrying the slogan: “I want to be happy,” as Hollie Avil says.  There is a book in Spanish whose title is:  El hombre light written by Enrique Rojas.     www.monografias.com/trabajos-pdf901/analisis-hombre-light/analisis-hombre-light.pdf

 Let´s go back to business. What happened in Madrid is worth mentioning. The way of training is quite apparent. Triathletes trained slowly at the beginning of the season except Brownlee. The understanding of physiology is very limited. Triathletes continue to practice the “Russian periodization” that Nicolas Romanov says started in the fifties in Russian and was discontinued by the same Russians years later. Unfortunately, it continues to be applied in the Occident thirty years later. Females cycled 2 minutes slower and ran a minutes slower in Madrid this year compared to last year. It means that they train slowly at the beginning of the season and as a consequence they are very slow, traithletes follow just what the book says according to the Russian periodization. They follow the mantra of train with a big gear at slow cadence so they cannot go fast. Is it the way to train? My goodness, when we build monuments we have a difficult time trying to get away from them, as I mentioned to you in this blog March 15, 2012, TRIATHLON PHYSIOLOGY FOR DUMMIES AND THE TENDENCY TOWARD THE MEAN, third part. I have a female patient whose parents are wealthy and I ventured to say to her if she wanted to destroy the monuments (meaning selling his parent´s business). She answered that she would think twice about it even that she paints and makes films. She does not care much about the money but the “meaning” of the monument.

Another thing we learned in Madrid is that even if they do not cycle rapidly they cannot go any faster running. They go as fast as they are prepared to run.  Unless they pedal like last year we do not see the difference in running, 1:10 this year compared to 1:08 last year for females. Brownlee went just few seconds slower, he had no competition and slowed down before entering. Nicola Spirig has been running the same way since she was adolescent:

2000 Perth ITU Triathlon World Championships
Junior Women

Pos	First Name	Last Name	Country		Time	Swim	T1	Bike	T2	Run
1	Anneliese	Heard	GBR		02:10:05	00:19:07	00:00:56	01:11:59	00:00:26	00:37:34
2	Melanie	Mitchell	AUS		02:11:27	00:19:05	00:00:58	0.05	00:00:22	00:39:00
3	Nicola	Spirig	SUI		02:12:18	00:21:11	00:00:24	01:14:04	00:00:29	00:36:05

MADRID 2012

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Nicola

Spirig

SUI

02:06:35

00:20:00

00:01:09

01:10:00

00:00:25

00:35:01

 

 

In another matter regarding Madrid, we have a friend who was cheated, I am assuming such thing until I heard from him the truth. Arturo Garza did not get the money to go to Madrid, which I am assuming; or he had a lesion, according to our Federation (Cadaval).  He lost perhaps his only chance to go to the Olympics. The reason why I said so it is that the Mexican Federation spends so much money in an unethical research done with the juniors that they could not pay for an athlete as Arturo, even when ASDEPORTE/Federation gets $100,000.00 dollars, at least, for event done by the Mexican Federation.