We wrote previous posts regarding no improvement of
most of the athletes after adolescence:
Are our triathletes improving after they turned
18? I think so, but not to the degree that people want to believe: and it
is more difficult to improve for females. Alistair Brownlee and Mario
Mola have improved after they turned 18 based on increasing mileage running and
biking when training. Gwen Jorgensen is the exception as female
triathlete; she improved her biking and automatically improved her running
ability after improving her biking, very fast. Alistair and Gwen were
similar in that regard. Ashleigh Gentle is a good example of what happens
to triathletes practicing triathlon as a sport. Since the age of 16 her
swimming ability is quite similar. Her running ability improved a little
as well as her biking; the bicycle course is different now than 10 years back
in Hamburg.
21 juil. 2017
We also spoke about “White privilege,” summoned in the
paragraph below.
Privilege is usually transparent to those
who have it! (When Marie Antoinette responded to the plight of the poor --
who had no bread -- with "Let them eat cake!" she may simply have
been unaware that there actually were households in which there could not be
found both bread and cake.) And that often means that
fortunate folks assume everyone else is equally blessed. So it becomes
easy to judge those who fail as having been somehow at fault ... lazy,
intemperate, etc.
A link between these two statements is needed to have
a better view of what is going on. Let’s
take Mario Mola’s stats from the Spanish Federation at the age of 18.
40 JNM1 Uxío ABUÍN ARES Galicia
NAT100 00:59,0 11
CC400 00:56,0 11
NAT1000 11:57,0 11
CC1000 02:51,0 7
37 JNM2 Mario Mola Diaz Islas Baleares
CC1000 02:34,0 10
CC400 00:56,0 10
NAT100 01:00,0 10
NAT1000 12:26,0 7
36 CDF1 Marta Valera Rey Galicia
NAT100 01:08,0 12
CC400 01:12,0 10
CC1000 03:29,0 8
NAT1000 13:40,0 6
36 JNM1 Fernando Alarza Vicente Castilla La Mancha
CC400 00:54,0 11
NAT100 01:01,0 10
NAT1000 12:22,0 8
CC1000 02:54,0 7
Looking at the numbers, his numbers are equalized by
some of our athletes but the performance of our athletes is not there. Fernando Alarza is next to Mola in the
testing done by the Spanish Federation and his performance appears to be right
where it is. Our athletes do not believe
in their efforts and guidance because “cake” was not in the house just as Marie
Antoinette believed it was “cake” in the house.
We have to double or triple our efforts to help our young people
overcome poverty in their head because as it is said above; “both bread and
cake” were not in the table and “garbage” was given and eaten happily.
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