Don't look up the result before hand as it will ruin it (also avoid reading the photo captions as this gives the result away too! Nothing wrong with his effort or passion, but who listened to a first cut and allowed him to continue? It generated a level of interest far beyond the circle of diehard fans who followed this tiny niche sport back then: Scott and Allen weren’t just rivals on the race course.

On October 14, 1989, driven by one of the most intense and lasting two-man rivalries in any sport, a pair of generational talents at the height of their powers ran a race that redefined human limits. com , "There couldn't be two more divergent individuals in a single sport than Dave Scott and Mark Allen. Iron War is perhaps, the most simple map in the game, as it only features three islands, two medium sized islands, Wayward Isle at the north-west, Sentinel Isle at the south, one small, unnamed island, and a few asteroids scattered around the map. The first part of the book is great biography-type writing about Dave and Mark and how they came to meet at the Ironman.Iron War by Matt Fitzgerald recounts the fabled Ironman world championship battle between triathlete legends Dave Scott and Mark Allen. Matt contradicts himself on this front in so many places that it became difficult to consider him credible.

When not outside, she’s writing about being outside and healthy habits of athletes and interviewing world-class athletes and scientists for The Consummate Athlete. This makes sense when you consider that a runner who exhibits large accelerations in the AP plane is a runner who slows down and speeds up quite a bit from stride to stride, even while trying to hold a steady pace.The best bit about this book for me was the science stuff and in particular the chapter on what marks these two guys out as "more" than others. Both tactics were extremely effective, and both came with the personality to compliment their strategy. Maybe along this journey I will manage to garner enough qualifying points to find myself at the Kona starting line the year after.