We now know that who runs well will most likely be the
winner. This is the case where Gomez won
against Alistair Brownlee at Yokohama. Both of them are at the top of triathlon,
swimming, biking and running. They have
practiced tactics to win running because they know that it has become “a mile
race.” It is a mile race because the
rest of the triathletes are unable to compete at this level, and they depend on
the peloton to take them to contention.
Gomez has less of an African runner; his cadence is
higher compared to the Brownlees, and he is more on upright position. He is more like Michael Johnson running;
Michael used more cadence compared to his rivals and possessed the 200 and 400
WR.
I am guessing that this way of running is more
efficient than the African running.
Watch Juan Luis Barrios competing against the Africans in the London
Olympics; his running is similar to the one practiced by Gomez. Barrios was eighth place at London (four seconds
behind Mo Farrah), but he is useful to proof that this way of running is
efficient; very few people will initiate running competitively using cadence as
a target to improve.
I had a very controversial supervisor, Thomas Szasz. He told me: “If you are not fearful of your
father, you will run into lots of trouble in life.” It took me decades to understand what he
said, but now I can pass it on to patients.
Such reality, “being fearful of your father,” is necessary to perform at
a high level and to avoid difficulties with the law, family or work. Being “fearful of your father” helps us to
obey our own principles without hesitation because we know better. Did we have a father who taught us the
principles to be winners? That should be
our question.
We constantly encounter this problem; lack of father
or the principles acquired are useless for winning purposes. It is just like the phrase I heard: “Too much
schooling and too little education.”
Freudian Psychoanalysis started with the premise to
“assassinate the father within us” in order to perform better, mainly sexually. Nowadays, we have to deal with the lack of principles in order to be
winners because our parents did not educate us for that purpose. How to “discipline ourselves”
is the subject to deal with in triathlon to perform at a high level. The lacanian psychonalisis speaks of "le nom du père" and "la lettre dans l'inconscience" to make us aware of what we learn with our parents; it has a bad connotation, hinting that we should get rid of it.
We were third at the last Triathlon National Championship in
Mexico for adolescents with just two athletes, as a State. We were 13th in New Zealand (2012) with just three athletes, as a nation (we were the only medal and the highest placed triathletes for the nation). I tell the kids that they are more discipline
than the rest, but there is a lot of space to improve. Fathers forget to “father” kids or they do
not know how to do it; they are afraid of educating them and sometimes they
left education to the police. The winner
of the 14-15 category was 49 seconds ahead of the second place, 400 meters
swimming, 10k biking and 2.5k running.
Our athlete won running at 3:09 the kilometer; not bad for a 14-year-old
after the swimming and the bike! His chances of representing Mexico in the future are slimed because of the "marcas mínimas" used by the FMTRI as a way of controlling athletes and coaches. We are asking the Mexican Supreme Court to stop discrimination against athletes for the background they come from, our athlete started to swim two years ago.
