The epitome of poor coaching, not open or reflective, lack of compassion, poor communication skills, and he is his no.1 athlete and reference point
On FTP i have coached athletes that like tests, some that dont. There is a way to work with both.
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If not, he’s a fucking knob.
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Has anyone looked him up?
Is he a real person? 
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His about page is a contrdiction:-
"I am Raymond Botelho, former professional Triathlete, who has been racing in Triathlons and Endurance Races internationally since 1993.
28X Professional Ironman Triathlete
2x Ironman Champion
6x Half Ironman Champion
USA Triathlon “Triathlon All-American”
48 1st Place Career Finishes
Over 20 Years Professional Race Experience
Then in the next “column”
“Your result is all that matters to me. Make mistakes and fail along the way, but be accountable. It doesn’t have to be an obsession. Compulsion or paranoia are weaknesses.
The truth is, it is that simple.
Be honest and leave out all of the excuses.
I live and die with your results.”
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won’t be long then…
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This one might be interesting 
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Short lived, looks like the messiah has shut it down.
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Boo!
Actually some reasonable disagreements over there - the Nick Bare thread is amusing
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Makes sense, except him blocking anyone that makes him look clueless.
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This is priceless. According to the brains trust that is Dev Paul Dan Lorang is 7 flavours of wrong. 
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“Actually, swimming 1:05 on 5 months of 6-9000 m/wk is quite impressive. Your GF should be down well below 1:00 in another 5 months, and prob below 55 by next spring. She would appear to have a natural feel for the water. :)”
FFS, yes many AOS swimming 3 x 3k a week can swim 55mins in a year 
Nearly everyone, fit with no physical disadvantages, can get to a 1.05 IM Swim in 6mths with targetted, specific training. Then the plateau occurs. No one is going LCB swim speeds who starts in adult life, no matter how much you do. Well, unless you dedicate 10 years of 30k-70k every week
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Yeah, I have a mate who was a swim kid and doesn’t swim regularly and barely at all during the football season. A few weeks before a triathlon he swims a few times then at local races is in the top few out of the water.
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Yeah, 59/60 was my plateau as AOS. No point chasing more unless you can bike under 5h and run sub 3:30.
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He (Devalish Pull) is on fire at the moment with about 5 threads devolving into him ‘Devsplaining’ then whinging about being attacked… my favourite is that Pog should have not have pulled out of Olympics in support of his fiance as:
°Olympics are a one in lifetime experience
°his partner should support his aspirations
°most relationships fail anyway so he’ll probably break up with her
°loads of other women would want to be with Pog.
He’s also calculated Taylor knibb’s TT result of she didn’t fall off 4 times but didn’t adjudt for others falls… he really is a moron…
I’d recommend you go and read but given he writes 6 paragraphs when a sentence would do i wouldn’t waste your time…
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He really is a full on moron, he has a very large ego and very thin skin. He absolutely hates that there is a pro cycling watching thread with some proper A Grade racers in it that wasn’t started by him.
That’s why he starts one for the GTs but most people who actually know what they are on about participate in the other one.
His SOP is to make a (long) statement, get called out and then whinge about ‘personal attacks’. He’ll double down on his original statement and then say something like ‘anyway, back to the xxxx’ when he feels like he’s losing the argument.
The Pog one was such a disaster and he definitely didn’t like his mistake re Riis being called out. Haven’t read the Knibb one yet but I’m headed to a coffee shop soon, so I’ll take my glasses and settle in. 
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where have we heard that before???
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That too… 
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Is Raymond Buttholeo still posting self aggrandising shite?