Inside Triathlon Archives: A Peek at Peter Reid’s Training Secrets

Three-time Ironman world champion Peter Reid vanished from the sport in 2007, cut off all contact and retreated into exile. Months went by, but eventually word leaked through the ether. Reid had become a bush pilot for Air Nootka in Gold River, British Columbia. In 2009, Inside Triathlon contributing editor T.J. Murphy went looking for him. What he found was a man who was finally willing to talk about his Ironman training and racing.

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