Ok, so now somebody write the hackathon analogy of this article:
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/everything-you-know-abou...
The article basically shows a guy following standard gym routines of lifting on balance balls and such. And he meets a legendary strength coach who puts him on squats and the bench press for the first time and calls him little girl weak.
I'd love for a hackathon champion to write a post about realizing how hackathons don't make you a good programmer, and maybe he goes to train under Donald Knuth who calls him script kiddie weak and has them do weeks of advanced sorting algorithms.