you can check them all out at the following link:
be sure to go through all of the media tied in with the articles, because they're also fascinating. the article with Sara Hall, for example, features the following:
- graphic: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/04/16/fashion/17fitness.graphic.ready.html
- video: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/04/17/fashion/1194817114259/working-out-with-sara-hall.html
- discipline (over yourself and your surroundings),
- diligence (effort and hard work),
- commitment (persistence),
- faith (confidence in yourself and what you are doing),
- mindfulness (awareness of details and what is happening),
- intelligence (an ability to question and reason out how and why things are done...and if necessary, to consider alternatives), and
- ambition (goals set as objectives of effort).
i think this is useful, because it serves as a reminder that no matter how elite the athlete, whether celebrity professional or unknown amateur, that there are still certain characteristics that are associated with sports and fitness. you don't see improvement in athleticism with a requisite set of factors, and all the genetic ability in the world (or lack thereof) won't make up for a lack of the fundamental components in character needed to develop and utilize that ability--and for certain, for those of us who lack any athletic ability altogether, we'll never even get out of the starting gate without such components in character.
i should note most of these articles are not really related to endurance sports or triathlon. the exceptions are the articles with Christian Van de Velde (cycling), Sara Hall (running), and Ryan Lochte (swimming). but i think you can peruse all of them and see a consistency in the themes i'm talking about.
cheers.
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