Good on you for posting.
A person tends to go with sport(s) of their community. There are natural advantages to that. If I were in a community where the most popular sports paid big bucks/scholarships like soccer, basketball, football why would I want to swim, bike or run? The enormity of the payback/popularity would lead me to try swim, bike and run only after my failure at soccer, basketball, football. That's how it works for many.
We have black cyclists and triathletes in Atlanta. Like me, maybe they tried other sports first and then came to swim, bike, run because it is enjoyable, individual, and they don't have to compare a younger them with an older them. Having the time and money to swim, bike or run, also shouts out that you've made it and you really are training.
Racism and misogyny seem to be beat down words/tools to advance someone over someone else. Don't like the idea that people think, that to get ahead, you need to put someone else down. There is no "pie" that is only so big to fight over. Life can be creating new opportunities for yourself/others that doesn't deprive others of what they want to do too (if you don't tax them to do what you want done).
With our demographic, it could have been better if they took on video games that encourage violence, fantasy, social isolation and obesity if they wanted to do some virtue signalling.
Indoor Triathlete - I thought I was right, until I realized I was wrong.
A person tends to go with sport(s) of their community. There are natural advantages to that. If I were in a community where the most popular sports paid big bucks/scholarships like soccer, basketball, football why would I want to swim, bike or run? The enormity of the payback/popularity would lead me to try swim, bike and run only after my failure at soccer, basketball, football. That's how it works for many.
We have black cyclists and triathletes in Atlanta. Like me, maybe they tried other sports first and then came to swim, bike, run because it is enjoyable, individual, and they don't have to compare a younger them with an older them. Having the time and money to swim, bike or run, also shouts out that you've made it and you really are training.
Racism and misogyny seem to be beat down words/tools to advance someone over someone else. Don't like the idea that people think, that to get ahead, you need to put someone else down. There is no "pie" that is only so big to fight over. Life can be creating new opportunities for yourself/others that doesn't deprive others of what they want to do too (if you don't tax them to do what you want done).
With our demographic, it could have been better if they took on video games that encourage violence, fantasy, social isolation and obesity if they wanted to do some virtue signalling.
Indoor Triathlete - I thought I was right, until I realized I was wrong.