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Iron War: Two Incredible Athletes. One Epic Rivalry. The Greatest Race of All Time.

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The first part of the book is great biography-type writing about Dave and Mark and how they came to meet at the Ironman. I read it in just over a day and have passed it around friends who have all agreed it is a brilliant read. One of the worst of any audiobook I have listened to in 20 years (including back in the audio cassette days).

Although I disagree with the author’s conclusions, his “erroneous” take-aways made me ponder the lives and events recounted in his book. In a paragraph glossing over the Dick and Rick Hoyt's triathlon achievements, he notes that Rick's (who has Cerebral Palsy) athletic efforts as "piteous.This is the moment when—7 hours, 58 minutes and 2 seconds into what may be the greatest race two men have ever run—one begins to prevail. Iron War goes beyond the pulse-pounding race story to offer a fascinating exploration of the lives of the world's two toughest men and their unquenchable desire to succeed. Only accelerations in the anterior-posterior (AP) plane are strongly associated with running economy. He raced, and even though he never did an Ironman—I blame me being born for that—he still loved the sport, and was stoked when I got into it in my 20s.

However their objections don't seem based on the book getting anything major wrong, so I think it's still a good telling of an amazing story, and recommended. A fascinating story about two endurance athletes with very different backgrounds, personalities, habits, attitudes, and training methods, who nevertheless end up winning the Iron Man competition six times apiece and beating each other in the process.The other (Allen) takes a more spiritual approach, letting his body tell him what it needs and freeing his mind of all negativity.

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