Triathlon and Attention to Details

I say to my athletes: “Thousands of details make the champion.”  There is no difference between you and them, just “details.”  It is like saying that the chimp has 98% of our genome.  Gene duplications are a major source of differences between human and chimp genetic material, with about 2.7 percent of the genome now representing differences having been produced by gene duplications or deletions during approximately 6 million years[4] since humans and chimps diverged from their common evolutionary ancestor. The comparable variation within human populations is 0.5 percent. From 2.7 to 0.5% variance is an insurmountable difference.  “It is just details.”

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

Let´s take an example.  The Brownlees give details about their stay in St. Moritz, Switzerland.  They took the cook with them and buy their food in Italy because it is cheaper and they found what they need; ANOTHER team is showing photos of shopping pizza in the supermarket with one of their multiple coaches.

“It's great. Food is cooked at 7.30pm every night so I just wander over. It's easy, you don't have to shop or cook so you can let your body relax and unwind after a hard day in the mountains. Sometimes we'll also hop on a ski-lift and go higher in the mountains for a stroll and a hot chocolate too. It's just a nice healthy place to be.”

We learned details since we are born.  It is called education; it can help us to achieve our goals or deviate us from our goals. It depends on our parents, teachers, society, etc.  Remember the difference that could be present by changing just a little the DNA, the phenotype (what we see) is totally different.  A little problem in the chromosome 21 give us a Down syndrome.  The same thing with details.  Details are not details if you want to be champion.  My friend Richard, from Buffalo, one of the few black Americans, born in the US who ran marathons at a competitive level used to tell: "Always look for the edge."