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Before he was a six-time IRONMAN® World Champion, triathlete Mark Allen was a six-time IRONMAN also-ran—not to mention an also-swam and also-biked. Merely competing in an IRONMAN race is accomplishment enough, but after winning races across the country and abroad, the future IRONMAN legend still could not break through at the World Championship held annually in Kona, Hawaii.
“I was really at a crossroads,” says the now 63-year-old Allen. “It was like, you know what? I should just go to races around the world where I’ve proven I can be champion, forget Kona.