#ICYMI - Ironman Triathlon, with Mark Allen

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🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel…. Swim… Bike… Run… Science! Hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice enter the world of endurance as we explore Ironman Triathlons alongside Mark Allen, voted ESPN’s Greatest Endurance Athlete of All Time, and exercise scientist Samuele Marcora. Photo Courtesy of Mark Allen.

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0:00.0	I am Mark Allen, six-time Iron Man World Champion, and this is playing with science.
0:07.4	I'm Gary O'Reilly.
0:08.6	You've done something nice.
0:09.6	This is playing with science.
0:14.8	Today, three, these most definitely the magic numbers.
0:18.4	Chuck and I enter the world of endurance and triathlon, which means only one thing.
0:23.4	Iron Man.
0:24.3	Woo!
0:25.4	Not Tony Stark though.
0:26.5	Oh.
0:27.9	But something even better.
0:29.7	Yep.
0:30.7	I'm already exhausted.
0:31.7	I'm telling you.
0:32.7	Well, we'll have the greatest of all time.
0:34.7	The goat we're talking about, Mark Allen, six-time Iron Man World Champion, the man ESPN
0:40.0	voted the greatest endurance athlete of all time.
0:44.4	He will be joining us and also Samuel Makora from the University of Kent in England, who
0:49.6	says endurance is pretty much all in the mind.
0:53.8	Not in my mind.
0:54.8	The only things up there are a cup web and an angry looking spider.
0:58.8	For those of you that aren't familiar with triathlon, it's quite simple.
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