Stop the presses. "Norwegian runners discover making training fun is the best way to train!"
Who cudda thunk it? About as new as Nik Nik disco attire and platform shoes.
Can you imagine all of the inane LRC threads that are soon to pop up?
"Can I have fun on low mileage?"
"Are double fun days better than single fun days?"
"What about long funs?" Yes or No?
You’re not wrong but why do you stay here? What do you like about this site?
Thats a question for you not me. But to answer your question, its silly threads like this one, and mimicking Rojos most obsessive stalker. The guy who cannot let go of rojos typos.
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Norway is dominating the sport for a few reasons but the biggest is that Triathlon is probably with weakest endurance sport in terms of high level competition.
Only 10-15 countries even care, it takes a ton of money and time to get good eliminating 95% of potential participants. Africa, Asia, most of South American do not compete in tri seriously.
Of course those Norwegians are having fun with their free health care, college, national wealth fund to fall back on!!!!
Not saying they aren’t incredible athletes, but most of who they are racing are trust fund Americans and euros.
Norway is dominating the sport for a few reasons but the biggest is that Triathlon is probably with weakest endurance sport in terms of high level competition.
Only 10-15 countries even care, it takes a ton of money and time to get good eliminating 95% of potential participants. Africa, Asia, most of South American do not compete in tri seriously.
Of course those Norwegians are having fun with their free health care, college, national wealth fund to fall back on!!!!
Not saying they aren’t incredible athletes, but most of who they are racing are trust fund Americans and euros.
This. Nobody cares about Tri. So, these guys can diddle themselves about being elite athletes when they’re really just 225 Marathoners.
Norway is dominating the sport for a few reasons but the biggest is that Triathlon is probably with weakest endurance sport in terms of high level competition.
Only 10-15 countries even care, it takes a ton of money and time to get good eliminating 95% of potential participants. Africa, Asia, most of South American do not compete in tri seriously.
Of course those Norwegians are having fun with their free health care, college, national wealth fund to fall back on!!!!
Not saying they aren’t incredible athletes, but most of who they are racing are trust fund Americans and euros.
Damn those Norwegians with a well run country and a government who actually help people! Damn them all
This. Nobody cares about Tri. So, these guys can diddle themselves about being elite athletes when they’re really just 225 Marathoners.
Stornes did a 2.29 to win the world champs after an insane bike leg on a tough course (8000ft vert). Think he's a bit better than that tbf. Don't disagree about it being inaccessible to many though...but they're legit top tier athletes.
Norway is dominating the sport for a few reasons but the biggest is that Triathlon is probably with weakest endurance sport in terms of high level competition.
Only 10-15 countries even care, it takes a ton of money and time to get good eliminating 95% of potential participants. Africa, Asia, most of South American do not compete in tri seriously.
Of course those Norwegians are having fun with their free health care, college, national wealth fund to fall back on!!!!
Not saying they aren’t incredible athletes, but most of who they are racing are trust fund Americans and euros.
Morgan Pearson is an incredible triathlete (and a very good runner as well) but I believe his father is a billionaire
This. Nobody cares about Tri. So, these guys can diddle themselves about being elite athletes when they’re really just 225 Marathoners.
Stornes did a 2.29 to win the world champs after an insane bike leg on a tough course (8000ft vert). Think he's a bit better than that tbf. Don't disagree about it being inaccessible to many though...but they're legit top tier athletes.
As said, it’s a stupid fvckng sport for rich kids who have time to train 25 or 30 hours a week and pretend they’re elite athletes. Nobody cares about tri.
Norway is dominating the sport for a few reasons but the biggest is that Triathlon is probably with weakest endurance sport in terms of high level competition.
Only 10-15 countries even care, it takes a ton of money and time to get good eliminating 95% of potential participants. Africa, Asia, most of South American do not compete in tri seriously.
Of course those Norwegians are having fun with their free health care, college, national wealth fund to fall back on!!!!
Not saying they aren’t incredible athletes, but most of who they are racing are trust fund Americans and euros.
This. Nobody cares about Tri. So, these guys can diddle themselves about being elite athletes when they’re really just 225 Marathoners.
To be fair, Kristian Blummenfelt has the highest vo2max ever recorded on absolute terms and probably top 5 relatively.
Norway is dominating the sport for a few reasons but the biggest is that Triathlon is probably with weakest endurance sport in terms of high level competition.
Only 10-15 countries even care, it takes a ton of money and time to get good eliminating 95% of potential participants. Africa, Asia, most of South American do not compete in tri seriously.
Of course those Norwegians are having fun with their free health care, college, national wealth fund to fall back on!!!!
Not saying they aren’t incredible athletes, but most of who they are racing are trust fund Americans and euros.
This. Nobody cares about Tri. So, these guys can't diddle themselves about being elite athletes when they’re really just 225 Marathoners.
Racing a bike for 100+ miles and then running that fast takes some serious resiliency.
Yes in the sense of pure sport it's more cumbersome than road racing or biking etc.
But it's a pretty impressive test of endurance fitness that is increasingly being raced more than it's paced. Pick your favorite runner and they'd be humbled badly if they tried it.
Jesus that was a long way to say a whole lotta nothing. I've read Outsides articles, but find myself always thinking at best the articles about training "secrets, breakthroughs, new methods etc" usually can be summarized to "heres a short study done on 6 people and perhaps this thing might do something, but we don't really know" and this article says just about nothing useful - about half is boring fluff, that could've easily been cut.
I also wonder how any ultra-runners or triathletes would fare if they focused on traditional distances or just one sport. My own inclination is that they would at best "Also-rans" and not really anyone you should take something from, not that I don't respect what they do, but i would not take a "life changing revelation" so serious from a guy who went from 2:20 to 2:15 either.
