Is there anything more narcissistic then talking about yourself. I especially enjoy the blogs who talk about themselves in the 3rd person. As if ANYONE really cares or reads about you unless you made it to the Olympic games, won an Ironman or hold some athletic world record. I get blogs that raise awareness and help people and blogs that are a profitable business but 99% of them are narcissistic douchebags with nothing to say except use up bandwidth.
I personally want to throw up when I start reading those “Race Reports”. As if ANYONE who is not completely bored out of their mind would subject themselves to such mundane and boring as hell reports on what you ate and drank during your event. Nor do we care when you woke up, when you took a dump, etc. Seriously now, nobody cares and you make yourself look like a total dork and extremely narcissitic for no really reason whatsoever.
So if you are one of those bloggers who brag about your athletic accomplishments on a blog, unless you won an Ironman, made it to the Olympics or hold a world record, I feel sorry for you and your girlfriend/boyfriend or spouse that has to live with you. You need to Stop the blog, seek professional help, instead of blogging spend more time with your family, training or working. This is much more productive mentally for you and makes my eyes bleed less not to see any blogging from you.
This forum is a breeding ground for these narcissistic bloggers too. Imagine if everyone had a blog bragging about themselves. It would all be white noise. Stop please…
I don’t read any triathlete blogs except when someone happens to link to some pros blog and the topic interests me. I do however enjoy about 80% of the race reports that I read on ST.
I find the stories of the age groupers more interesting than the pro’s, but that’s me. I like reading blogs or race reports on this forum every now and then. Especially if I am considering doing the race myself.
I find the stories of the age groupers more interesting that the pro’s, but that’s me. I like reading blogs or race reports on this forum every now and then. Especially if I am considering doing the race myself.
I don’t blog myself do.
Talking about yourself or a race report on this forum or any forum is okay, people interact with it, enjoy reading about it. Plus, it’s short lived on a forum, like one day then it disappears into history. That is perfectly okay, as long as you don’t talk too much about what you ate the night before and your bowel movements. But, blogging is 24/7 out there on the internet for the ENTIRE world to see not just Slowtwitchers.
I like to go back and read my writeups about races and training. Helps me see progress, what’s improving, etc.
How fast did I do that swim 2 years ago in the race I’m doing next month? What was my NP in my last 70.3? Where did I stash that race photo of my giving the camera the finger at mile 22 of the marathon?
Also fun to post pics to just my athlete friends, rather than all of Facebook. Shit, I even made a couple friends through a blog and met up to go for a run when they were in town.
It’s also a great way to compare myself with other AGers to see if I’m getting enough out of the time I put in. Apologies in advance for the link in my signature. DO NOT CLICK IT!
I like to go back and read my writeups about races and training. Helps me see progress, what’s improving, etc.
How fast did I do that swim 2 years ago in the race I’m doing next month? What was my NP in my last 70.3? Where did I stash that race photo of my giving the camera the finger at mile 22 of the marathon?
Also fun to post pics to just my athlete friends, rather than all of Facebook. Shit, I even made a couple friends through a blog and met up to go for a run when they were in town.
It’s also a great way to compare myself with other AGers to see if I’m getting enough out of the time I put in. Apologies in advance for the link in my signature. DO NOT CLICK IT!
That’s way too much to ask. He can’t help it… He apparently must read it and get butt hurt
I write my race reports as a way to help myself (talking it out) and also to see where I went right/wrong, a kind of external internalization. I also am going back to review/preview the races for others, since prices keep going up and I take reviews from other to see if I’m about to waste my cash on a race, or how the course is laid out (course recon) if I can’t pre-ride or run it.
I agree, some blogs are “me-fests”, but I read about other people’s experiences to help with my knowledge base. Again, YOU have the power to click that link or not, the blogs I don’t like, I don’t go to, but the one’s I do, I’ll revisit.
Ok, I’ll take the bait (probably shouldn’t, but what the heck?).
I have my own blog about my accomplishments, failures, and successes as an age-group triathlete. I don’t really give a damn if anyone reads it, but people do based on the available statistics. I write with humor when I can, and I don’t talk about myself in the third person (I have a BA in English Literature, so I know the difference between good writing and bad).
The primary reason I started my blog was to chart my journey from an overweight non-athlete, to someone who has aspirations to reach Kona someday. Will I ever? Maybe not. Do I give a shit if you don’t like it? Not really. Writing a blog is like writing a journal or memoirs, something people do to express their ideas and interests, their feelings at the time. I use my race reports to fall back on later and see how I did the previous year at an event, to see my progress.
I’m not an Olympian, I’m not an Ironman (yet?), I’m an average over-40 IT guy who’s trying to get and stay healthy. I use my own experiences, via my blog and Twitter, to motivate others to get healthy and stay that way.
Am I as hardcore as most STers? Nope…I will never reach the physical prowess that some of you have. That’s just a fact. But don’t expect me to rush out and delete my blog or seek “professional help” for putting my own ideas, thoughts, and feelings about my racing and training out there; if I can motivate someone to get off the couch and maybe try something new, to do something they haven’t done before, then I’m happy.
People who criticize others for doing something they enjoy need to evaluate their own motivations for being so negative and critical of others. As triathletes, we get plenty of criticism…does it stop us? Nope.
I like to go back and read my writeups about races and training. Helps me see progress, what’s improving, etc.
How fast did I do that swim 2 years ago in the race I’m doing next month? What was my NP in my last 70.3? Where did I stash that race photo of my giving the camera the finger at mile 22 of the marathon?
Also fun to post pics to just my athlete friends, rather than all of Facebook. Shit, I even made a couple friends through a blog and met up to go for a run when they were in town.
It’s also a great way to compare myself with other AGers to see if I’m getting enough out of the time I put in. Apologies in advance for the link in my signature. DO NOT CLICK IT!
WOW… you are a classic example of who I am talking about. Plus, you even put a link on this post to your blog, nice touch. I did not click on your link for fear my eyes would bleed. However, why don’t you put all your results on a Excel Spreadsheet for only you to read, why subject others to what goes on in your head? Plus, don’t you feel a little embarrassed or humbling to brag about yourself to the world? I can understand beating your chest among friends but to do so publicly is surprising to me.
