Who should analyze cycling narratives?

by rememberingcycling

The cyclists are the ones riding the bikes, but there’s a lot more to cycling than riding. You have to know how to ride on a daily basis if you want to improve. This means an expertise in physiology. You also have to know what to eat or how to fuel your body, linking the domain of the nutritionist. The stress of training can take its toll on cyclists. They might need the help of a psychologist to improve stress management and visualization. However, as this blog has repeatedly demonstrated, the analysis of memories is not outside of the field of narratology because a memory known is a memory told. Telling and remembering are inextricably connected. So, whereas the coach would focus on the developing body as the indicator of performance and the nutritionist would focus on the processing of nutrients to produce energy, the narratologist analyzes the relationship between the act of remembering and the the memory. The act of remembering requires the construction of a narrative necessitating a narratological analysis. This sort of analysis would not overlap the realm of the psychologist because it is focused on the story itself. Sports psychology is more concerned with tactics for preventing or overcoming weakness, obviously not the domain of narratology. But psychology is not equipped to analyze something that is necessarily in narrative form. The narratological approach to athletic training does not contradict other methodologies; it simply adds another domain of study, another field of analysis. It is the aim of this blog to develop a training/coaching methodology that would emphasize narratological analysis as well as awareness of narratological elements in decision making.