I agree with Molina...
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Scott Molina: “I feel just the opposite. If I were to be born in the modern era, not the dinosaur era like you guys…my experience in the sport was the learning, and the experimenting, and the unknown. And it seems now that along with all the technology and the coaching…there’s so much information that the young, aspiring, growing athlete doesn’t have to find out for themselves. It’s all provided to them, for them. And to me, not having that was what I loved about sports. Like, ‘I don’t know, but I’m gonna find out, I’m gonna try.’ To me, it seems like there’s a lot less of that today.”
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I am glad I started training and racing in the 80's and training for Ironman/Ultraman in the 90's as it was all a grand adventure. Training was chaos,with every day an excuse to destroy your mates and races were just an awesome excuse to have an epic after party.

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Completely agree with this. I wasn't racing tris in 80s/early 90s but running competitively then riding competitively. We would just go out and kill ourselves day after day. We got undeniable lessons of where are limits were and how to truly suffer (and love it and learn from it). Of course, all that's known now, it wasn't optimal... but it sure was fun.

I dunno Nick. Just because the info is out there, and we should know better, doesn't necessarily mean we are gonna find the info, and even if we did... heed the advice (for better or for worse).

I took a few forkfuls of advice from Steve Brown in prepping for the Ultra 520K but for a lot of it, I was in adventure mode, just to see of "this shit" would work. "Shit" being 12 hour training rides, learning how to eat pizza while swimming, racing an Olympic tri 15 hours after a 220 K fondo, and doing a 2 hour run with an Aussie in the heat a day after that just to "toughen up."

And this was 2017, NOT 2007. There's some men you just can't reach...././