Pretty much, I'm going to guess Gomez to medal needs 45s head start on the chase pack of athletes and needs one of the Brothers to have an bad day (assuming both brothers, Gomez, Luis make front group) . However that needs to happen, that's imo how he medals. If T2 is 30+ men together, I'm going to go with my 1st post prediction of closer to 8th-10th finish.
ETA: I won't post anymore on it but I just cant see a 37+ year old who's aging out of the sport and going up against guys who are aging into their best form, I just dont see how he beats them in a heads up run race. Gomez brought in a new style of racing with AB and they put medal winners out to pasture in the process, so one day the shoe falls on the other foot, and one day Gomez will be the guy where the sport has passed him by. It's not disrespect, it's just sports. #life #athletics
He's probaly come back to ITU cus it's just more of a fun life. IM racing kinda sucks. You race for a paycheck once every 6 weeks or 2 months or 3 months, while ITU/DL you can race for a paycheck 2-3 times a month (they also usually race domestically for teams in FGP or GB leagues). Granted I dont think Kona was a disappointment, I think it was a good result for where he was. You sometimes just need to take your lumps and learn more than go into a race and think your a podium and if you don't it's a failure. If that was the goal or plan, then I think that's mighty big bar to set. Gomez is triathlon royalty. He can name any job he wants when he retires. I think all this means is that IM just isn't what he wants to do. I also think it'll be really hard to go back to IM if he spends the next 2 years going ITU. I think this move back just means it's more not his cup of tea. Going from ITU style training to IM training it's just different. Hell he's going to have raced for what 4th olympics (3rd cus he missed Rio, but you know what i mean) if he makes Tokyo....that's one hell of a long successful career.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
ETA: I won't post anymore on it but I just cant see a 37+ year old who's aging out of the sport and going up against guys who are aging into their best form, I just dont see how he beats them in a heads up run race. Gomez brought in a new style of racing with AB and they put medal winners out to pasture in the process, so one day the shoe falls on the other foot, and one day Gomez will be the guy where the sport has passed him by. It's not disrespect, it's just sports. #life #athletics
He's probaly come back to ITU cus it's just more of a fun life. IM racing kinda sucks. You race for a paycheck once every 6 weeks or 2 months or 3 months, while ITU/DL you can race for a paycheck 2-3 times a month (they also usually race domestically for teams in FGP or GB leagues). Granted I dont think Kona was a disappointment, I think it was a good result for where he was. You sometimes just need to take your lumps and learn more than go into a race and think your a podium and if you don't it's a failure. If that was the goal or plan, then I think that's mighty big bar to set. Gomez is triathlon royalty. He can name any job he wants when he retires. I think all this means is that IM just isn't what he wants to do. I also think it'll be really hard to go back to IM if he spends the next 2 years going ITU. I think this move back just means it's more not his cup of tea. Going from ITU style training to IM training it's just different. Hell he's going to have raced for what 4th olympics (3rd cus he missed Rio, but you know what i mean) if he makes Tokyo....that's one hell of a long successful career.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
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B_Doughtie: Jan 16, 19 21:19