Iron War: Two Incredible Athletes. One Epic Rivalry. The Greatest Race of All Time. [Paperback] Fitzgerald, Matt

October 1989, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The Ironman World Championship becomes a six-hour duel between Dave Scott, the sport's reigning king gunning for a sixth title, and Mark Allen, the perennial bridesmaid who'd never won the big one. Matt Fitzgerald reconstructs the race mile by mile — the scorching bike leg through lava fields, the psychological warfare, the moment Allen finally breaks Scott in the run's final miles. But this isn't just a race report. Fitzgerald digs into what drove these two men to push past every known limit, exploring the science of endurance, the nature of obsession, and what happens when rivalry transcends competition and becomes mutual transformation. For anyone who's ever wondered what the human body can endure when the mind refuses to quit.