Prolific Tri Blogger Apologizes to Blogosphere for Omitting Critical Details

From "The Triathlonion," December 2, 2007

CHARLOTTE—In a landmark blog post sending shockwaves across the Internet, a remorseful Art Dunbar apologized to the tri-blogosphere on Saturday for not sharing enough details about his daily thoughts and workouts in his 3,900 posts over the past three years. "I feel like the world doesn't even know what really makes Art Art," lamented Dunbar.

To compensate, the 39-year-old Dunbar revealed plans to embark on a 5,000-mile, one-year journey in which he will personally visit the homes of his blog's 217 daily readers. "We'll sit down face to face and share a Gatorade, maybe go on a 30-minute run-walk," wrote Dunbar. "I'll be attempting to atone for my countless omissions about 'livin' the tri life' by answering their questions about all the details that I just haven't had time to blog about."

"I, for one, am grateful that Art is finally making this long-overdue journey," wrote Pleasejustri4JesusSistah, in an uncharacteristically short 3,000-word Saturday blog post. "I mean, how can Art summarize what really happened during his 16 hours and 57 minutes out on an Ironman course in one blog post — or even over a series of weeklong posts? The answer is he can't. So these personal conversations will be invaluable in helping his admirers fill in the gaps."

Dunbar, who gained valuable writing experience during his tenure as a mortgage loan officer at Wachovia, where he enjoyed company-wide notoriety for generating a prodigious amount of memos, also is self-publishing an 'autoblogography' as a compilation of his best blog posts. He expects to offer the 1,050-page tome for sale on his blog by next week — just in time for the holiday shopping season.

Dunbar also announced that he has purchased exclusive rights to the life experiences and thoughts of widely respected tri-blogger ONoUDontEvenTri2StopMeFool. "It gives me a little buffer zone," explained Dunbar. "Once I've blogged about all the minutiae of my own training and life, I'll now have this whole other reservoir of experiences to tap into. Having the ability to tell the stories of ONoUDontEvenTri2StopMeFool as if they are my own is like saving an extra gear for the final kilometer of a killer climb. And that totally rocks."