Null Hypothesis: The percentage of the triathlon population which blogs is less than the percentage of non-triathletes.
I am confident this hypothesis is false and thus, will attempt to understand why so many triathletes feel the need to blog about their life/training. I will rely on the slowtwitch community to help me prove this hypothesis wrong. I am obviously aiming for a p-value of <0.05.
Begin…
What’s a blog?
Anything to do with the interweb?
Look at me factor times 100
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Because most triathletes are egomaniacs who love to listen to themselves talk.
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Bacially what M~ said. Triathlon tends to attract people who can’t shut up about their every minor accomplishment in life.
That’s not to say that all tri blogs are like that, but a large majority of them are. The best ones are one’s like Matt Fitzgerald’s or Paulo’s whereby they contribute valuable content, not articles about how they had a great run and boy did they just find the most awesomest new oatmeal EVAR!
my oatmeal is better than your oatmeal, it’s faster too.
Your oatmeal is too high…
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Because triathletes have too much time on their hands (the reason they started doing triathlon in the first place), they love talking about how bad-ass they are (the reason they continued triathlon and started racing Ironmans), and need EVEN more time away from the significant other?
Not only are triathletes self absorbed, but they believe that what they are doing is important, interesting to other people, and needs to be documented.
There are many road cyclist blogers as well, but they get that the workout is not what is important, but the things they learn about the world and about themselves from their workouts that is worth writing about. There is a long tradition of the scribe cyclist, triathlon is missing that.
blogging is stupid no matter what. -triathletes are stupid for blogging about their training -pregnant bitches are stupid for blogging about being pregnant -couples are stupid for blogging about being in a relationship blogging is stupid and lame…
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You will see alot of the fulltime professional athletes have blogs.
It is due to a few reasons:
I guess the new generation are using myspace instead of blogs or both. It seems to be the ‘ne way’.
I like gleaning some of the pros blogs to get an insight to bits of their training.
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Blogging is ridiculous. Even if, hypothetically, there was some inherent value in it (which there is not, it’s strictly done for ego) I would not do it for fear of becoming a total douchebag. As it is now, I’m already a significant douchebag - like, maybe 48%. But blogging, my good sir, would push me well into a “predominantly douchey” state. I can’t have that. There are only two fundamental qualities in any person: humanity and douchebaggery. I strive for a 70/30 human-douche balance. It’s a process.
only worthwhile blogs are the blogs of females who persist in posting scantily clad photos of themselves.
only worthwhile blogs are the blogs of females who persist in posting scantily clad photos of themselves.
Thank you, I could not agree more, This is definatly the most intelligent post I have seen on ST!!!..(I am not joking, I agree 100%)
only worthwhile blogs are the blogs of females who persist in posting scantily clad photos of themselves.
Thank you, I could not agree more, This is definatly the most intelligent post I have seen on ST!!!..(I am not joking, I agree 100%)
got any links the ST collective may be interested in?
dude your post had me laughing for about 2 minutes.
This is a personal favorite
Here
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only worthwhile blogs are the blogs of females who persist in posting scantily clad photos of themselves.
Could you post an example (or 12) of this type of blog?
I just realized I may be 90% douche. I will have to ponder it and discuss it in my next blog entry.
I will agree with someone above. Pro’s do it to show off sponsorship. Its a bargaining tool to gain more sponsors too. I have xxx people visit my blog everyday, so i can put up a link to your website blah blah blah…
What the pro’s do the age groupers will do…