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Brendan Brazier
Unlike most other fifteen-year-olds in Vancouver, my priorities
didn't revolve around football games against high school rivals,
dating, or who would win the 1990 Stanley Cup. But, like most kids
my age, I was a bit obstinate and a bit reluctant not to question
authority.
So, as a serious, young athlete who already knew that I wanted
to compete as a professional Ironman triathlete, I found the pro-
meat mantra of my coach and trainers a little hard to swallow.
An Ironman triathlon consists of a 3.2-mile swim, a 112-mile bike
ride, and a 26.2-mile marathon. I didn't need a coach to tell me that
I had a huge amount of training ahead of me. Given how much time
I would need to invest in preparing my body for professional com-
petition, I knew that, to get a head start, I needed the most effec-
tive training program possible. Since imitation can be the highest
form of flattery, I looked at the training programs of some of the top
professional Ironman triathletes in the world, with the plan of mim-
icking their routine. To see what elevated the best from the rest,
I also looked at the training regimens of those with respectable,
Brendan Brazier, two-time Canadian 50km Ultra Marathon Champion, raced
Ironman triathlons professionally for seven years before becoming a bestselling
author on performance nutrition and the creator of Vega, an award-winning line of
whole food nutritional products.
