The pro fields are filled with great performances from the Brownlees to Craig Alexander and Chrissie Wellington and of course Mirinda Carfrae. Who would be your own triathlon heroes since ’89? And personally it turned out to be the greatest race of my career because of how difficult it was to become the champion one final time. I had to just trust that the race was unfolding exactly as it should, even though it was nothing like what I had hoped my ideal final chapter would look like.
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There was no template, no guidebook telling me how to pull it off. No one had ever one at age 37 at that point in the history of the race. No one had ever closed that big of a gap to be the champ. That meant I had to make up 30secs per mile every single mile of the marathon if I was going to catch him. Here was a guy who was 13 years younger than me, and very hungry for victory in Kona. You had another epic showdown with Thomas Hellreigel in 1995. Then, on that last uphill, I made the decisive surge that caught Dave by surprise and went on to win my first of six titles by a mere 58secs over one of the greatest competitors our sport has ever spawned. And suddenly, I was just happy to be racing side-by-side with the best guy in the world! From that step forward I knew I could do it! But I still had to be patient. Just seeing Don José’s face again as I was running brought me that same feeling. He and his adopted grandson were featured on one page in the magazine and they both had a look on their faces that was very peaceful, but very powerful. I’d been there six times before and never won, and now it was looking like Dave would continue is string of victories and I would be 0-7.īut then I recalled the image of a 110-year-old Huichol Indian shaman that I’d seen in a magazine before the race. But Dave was the strongest and at the half marathon point I was ready to just give up. It eventually became clear that the key was going to be the final uphill on the marathon before you drop back down into the town of Kona and run the final mile or so to the finish. We raced together the entire day, neither of us wanting to give up an inch or a second. The first was so incredible because of the great duel with Dave Scott. That would be my first Ironman victory in 1989 and my final one in 1995. Which of your Hawaii titles do you cherish the most? Then I passed him with just meters to go in the race. It took me until the sign that said 400m to the finish before I was able to get close to him. So what I did was to just surge for as long as I could take it, as if I was going 1km repeats on the track. So I just told myself that if I continued to run like a triathlete I would lose, but if I tried running like a runner I might have a chance. By the turn around of the run I’d only made up about 2mins. The most difficult was my penultimate victory when Yves Cordier was over 7mins ahead at T2.
In many ways that’s more amazing to me than winning six times in Hawaii.
How do view your Nice Triathlon experiences now?
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