Go . . . . . .wanker
OK, that's about it for me.
I realize you are taking a bit of a beating on this thread. Myself and others have tried to be polite, helpful and diplomatic in our posts. I realize others have been more direct, abrupt and rude but, that is uncalled for and inappropriate language.
You have kind of egged everyone on by continuing to respond again and again to posts - that just keeps it going, my friend. Sometimes you need to walk away or agree to disagree with people and leave it at that.
I don't know if this is your attitude at all, but I do see this a lot in triathlon - this entitlement, that a lot of triathletes have. I think that it comes from taking up a sport later in life, after having been very successful in other areas. If you grew up in sport and competed at a modest to high level when younger, before you did anything else in life, you knew that there were no medals for 4th. That when you missed making it to the finals by one second . . . . . . .you missed making it to the finals by one second! Try again next year!! Real sport is extraordinarily ruthless - the clock does not lie nor does the results sheet or the game scorecard. I think that this is often a hard message for many triathletes who want to go to the next level with this, to get.
My son, who is 12, just took part in the Provincial Basketball Championships. His team missed making it into the finals by one basket - 2 points. They won all the games they needed to in the round-robin part of the tournament to make it to the finals - but they ended up tied with another team. So it came down to total points - and they came up one basket short. One measly basket, over 4 games - that was all the difference. The kids were a bit frustrated and disapointed, but it was at good teaching opportunity about exactly what we are talking about here.
Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog
OK, that's about it for me.
I realize you are taking a bit of a beating on this thread. Myself and others have tried to be polite, helpful and diplomatic in our posts. I realize others have been more direct, abrupt and rude but, that is uncalled for and inappropriate language.
You have kind of egged everyone on by continuing to respond again and again to posts - that just keeps it going, my friend. Sometimes you need to walk away or agree to disagree with people and leave it at that.
I don't know if this is your attitude at all, but I do see this a lot in triathlon - this entitlement, that a lot of triathletes have. I think that it comes from taking up a sport later in life, after having been very successful in other areas. If you grew up in sport and competed at a modest to high level when younger, before you did anything else in life, you knew that there were no medals for 4th. That when you missed making it to the finals by one second . . . . . . .you missed making it to the finals by one second! Try again next year!! Real sport is extraordinarily ruthless - the clock does not lie nor does the results sheet or the game scorecard. I think that this is often a hard message for many triathletes who want to go to the next level with this, to get.
My son, who is 12, just took part in the Provincial Basketball Championships. His team missed making it into the finals by one basket - 2 points. They won all the games they needed to in the round-robin part of the tournament to make it to the finals - but they ended up tied with another team. So it came down to total points - and they came up one basket short. One measly basket, over 4 games - that was all the difference. The kids were a bit frustrated and disapointed, but it was at good teaching opportunity about exactly what we are talking about here.
Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog