The GMAN wrote:
wintershade wrote:
I agree with your assessment.
I do think you'd do well to adjust your tone however. You seem to be gloating in the fact that none of us will get to race this year (nor is 2021 looking great at the moment, sadly). I get it, you've had some epic battles on this forum defending this point of view since March and I suppose perhaps feel vindicated that you were right. Why celebrate the fact that many people's personal goals have been stripped away? Why celebrate the fact that race directors and race directors who make a living in multi-sport have lost their livelihoods?
You’re off base with your comments. I don’t want to be right, I don’t want to be vindicated, and I’m not celebrating anything.
This isn’t an “I told you so” moment. I wish I would’ve been totally wrong about everything. How else was this ever going to play out though? No vaccine or effective treatment = no racing. There’s a lot of people smarter than me that let emotions or pure selfishness cloud their thought process and judgment.
Well, it does come across like you are gloating (I already said this to you 2 months ago, that it comes across that you feel happy that people are losing their livelihoods, while others are losing their athletic outlet). If this is not your intent, it does not come across that way. A better angle would be, "while I am waiting for racing to hopefully happen in the future, I will do XYZ that motivates me in the mean time"
On my side, I have already done 450 hrs of training this year. Last week was a 22 hrs week the week before 20 hrs, just for the sake of training. I do several solo triathlons per week, some easy, some I race myself. I don't NEED WTC or any race organizer. I'll hopefully do my own 10,000m swim event (25x400IM on Dec 30th) assuming I can get a 3.5hrs block of pool time. I don't need racing, although I was looking forward to it after a 4 year hiatus and just getting back into triathlon last year. I did the Dubai70.3 when the pandemic was in full swing in Wuhan and on the Diamond Princess. I was looking forward to more, but I can wait now and I don't need to do events with travel. A local sprint and olympic tri is just as satisfying.
But for the people who have their livelihoods tied in events, equipment, coaching and other supply chain aspects of the sport, I would like there to be racing all around the world as we get to the path of a vaccine, while we live with the virus around us and manage risk. For those people, how you and a few others have come across hurts them. You're effectively saying, "NO CHANCE FOR ALL THESE PEOPLE TO PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE" and many are here on a triathlon forum hoping that many of us will sign up for their business when risk is low again.
Just think about your angle.
Now if this was a monster truck forum and we were gloating that all those skinny guys in Lycra can't do their stufff anymore but we still get to do our monster truck racing from our distanced cabs, then that might make sense. But we're on the Slowtwitch triathlon forum, the entire point of which is doing triathlon, not the "Shut Triathlon Down Forum".
...and I get you and I will disagree on this topic, and the funniest part is you're the one addicted to WTC racing and seemingly don't care about local racing. You just want to do WTC racing while at the same layering every possible doom and gloom angle on the thing that you want to do!!!