It will be fun to see where he ends up, hopefully not where Alan Webb did after his foray into our sport..
What AW did proves just how good these triathletes are, and I see that happening here as well. I would guess AT will have a much longer "sink or swim" timeline that essentially was there for Webb. He essentially had really only 18 months to see if he could make the Mola/Murray swim group. He missed it barely in some big ITU events, and thus was no real reason to keep going (especially if funding gets pulled and it's on the athlete to pay for the journey).
ETA: The big difference is that AW was on the very very back end of his athletic career. He really hadn't run all those fast times consistently in years. AT maybe hadn't even hit his peak, so that's exciting in that he has a longer ability to "learn" the sport, and it actually allow him good result(s). Webb basically was thrown into the deep end and expected/required to either make it or not, and if he didn't he was out there to fend for himself from a funding standpoint.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
What AW did proves just how good these triathletes are, and I see that happening here as well. I would guess AT will have a much longer "sink or swim" timeline that essentially was there for Webb. He essentially had really only 18 months to see if he could make the Mola/Murray swim group. He missed it barely in some big ITU events, and thus was no real reason to keep going (especially if funding gets pulled and it's on the athlete to pay for the journey).
ETA: The big difference is that AW was on the very very back end of his athletic career. He really hadn't run all those fast times consistently in years. AT maybe hadn't even hit his peak, so that's exciting in that he has a longer ability to "learn" the sport, and it actually allow him good result(s). Webb basically was thrown into the deep end and expected/required to either make it or not, and if he didn't he was out there to fend for himself from a funding standpoint.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
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