Patrick Lange - 2x IM World Champion: KONA, COVID-19 & the 2020 season, & nutrition talk!

I’m REALLY amped up to say the guest in today's episode is the former 2x IRONMAN World Champion and one of my favorites all time triathletes, Patrick Lange!  If you’ve been following professional triathlon in the last few years, then you’ve more than likely heard about Patrick as he’s been one of the most talked about triathletes out there. It was only back in 2016 when Patrick made his IRONMAN debut at IM Texas in which he came first place and then continued on that season with a 3rd overall at IM KONA; breaking the run course record.  This opened up a floodgate of sponsorship opportunities for Patrick which really helped him kickstart his long course career. He then went on to win consecutive IRONMAN World Championships in 2017 and 2018 breaking the overall course record each year and then becoming the first ever athlete to finish KONA in sub 8 hours. Hence his hashtag line #BetheRecordBreaker  Patrick is known to go full throttle on the big island but unfortunately in 2019 he had to drop out of the race leaving many people guessing what had happened.  Well, I am excited to talk to Patrick to chat about what happened that race day and leading up to the race. But more importantly, what is ahead going further as we start the new 2020 race season.  Some other themes we explore in today’s podcast: -  is the history of his early days in his triathlon career - his day to day nutrition strategies - his on-course nutrition strategy - And of course, we talk all things KONA – because nobody thinks about the IM World Championships on a daily basis more than Patrick Lange!  One race doesn’t define an athlete, so expect Patrick back at the start line in KONA 2020 with vengeance and a desire to reclaim his title from his fellow Countrymen Jan Frodeno. This is an awesome podcast episode so I hope you enjoy it as much as I did; and now… let’s get into it!