The Iron Sheik

*From the October issue of Outside magazine, a profile on Faris Al-Sultan .. here's a bit about his training routine:

"He balances his workouts—up to 450 miles of cycling, 50 miles of running, and nine miles of swimming per week—with studies toward a master's in Arabic language, literature, and history at Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University. He also spends two months a year in the United Arab Emirates, training in temperatures up to 115 degrees. That should help in Kona's notorious lava fields, but Al-Sultan is reluctant to handicap his chances. "The world keeps going its way, whether I win or lose," he says. "It's just a sport, and I can't get crazy about it."

[In metric, that's 724km on the bike, 80km running and 14.5km in the pool.]

http://www.faris-al-sultan.de/