(slow jazz)
- Yeah even you got that one then!
(laughing)
That's a good spot.
Should we do best of three or three lot of shots?
- Oh, yeah
- Awww
- Now it's rolling.
- [Fraser] Right, we are delighted to be here with
Patrick Lange the day after Iron Man Frankfurt
two time Ironman world champion and of course the
current world record holder for the Hawaii course
so thanks for coming along Patrick.
- Sure
- We've got a bit of fun this morning,
a little bit of GTN versus Patrick
so we've got a few rounds, the first round
we're going to get going with is a quick-fire quiz,
but I might just add because we are here in the heart
of downtown Frankfurt it's a little bit noisy
so please excuse us if you hear all sorts of
bangs kicking off in the background
but we're going to have these few rounds
there will be a winner of each round
and at the end of the quiz challenge,
bragging rights to the person who gets the win
If we get the win, we thought you'd let us
have your world title right?
(laughing)
- Yeah, but you definitely you choose the best day
to compete against me huh?
- Yeah you're the most tired out here,
that's a good point, so maybe I've got a chance.
(Exciting fanfare)
- Right so let's get going with round one
and the first question is last year
2018 world champs, do you remember your bike split?
Now we'll let you off with the seconds,
but your Ironman 2018 bike split.
- 4:12
(beep)
- Want to try again?
Do you want to try one more time?
- 4:15? 20?
- 4:16:05
(speakers drown out each other)
- Right, okay next one
so what was your average run pace
for your run split that you set last year
at the world championships? You got an idea of that?
In kilometers per hour, miles per hour, whatever you want.
- Yeah, kilometers per hour.
It must be something around 3.50
- Close, I think we'll give you that
348 was your pace for your time of 2:39:45
- But that wasn't last year, that was 2016
- You're right, I've done that wrong it was
it was actually the record time,
yeah even you got that one then.
It was 2016, it wasn't even
- Okay that was one question each so far.
Next one, in and the this is one
I might be able to sneak an answer here,
in 2015 you were fifth in Ironman 70.3 Kraichgau.
Can you remember who came first second and third?
cause I can.
- I can. Sebby, Andi Boecherer, I think David Mcnamee
- Absolutely
- And Antony Costes was fourth
- Because then you were fifth and I was sixth
- Oh yeah really I can remember yeah
I was standing on the podium next to you
- It was a hot day, a very hot day.
Right, good so that's two one to Patrick.
Next question, in 2016 you won Ironman Texas
run course record there do you remember what that time was?
- 2:40:01
- Ah he's good, yup 2:40:01
so that's another of the questions goes to Patrick
and then our final one here we've got count here
we keeping count here? Three-one?
Final question, we did a little bit of research
we think we know what your tank APB is,
do you know what that is?
- That's a tough one, actually I think,
I'm curious what you found out because
I have a 30 I think 20ish?
But that was on a shortened course,
it was just a nine point seven kilometers long.
And if you calculate that,
it must have been my personal best
because it was slightly under 31 minutes, so
- But we'll take that time in that race
and I think that's what we've got
because we did a little research on the IWF website
30:15 is what we have.
- Yeah, 30:15 but it was
- A little bit short
- A new year's run and they had a race marshal
and he pointed us the wrong way on purpose
- Oh so it was supposed to be the right lines race
but it just became a short race.
- Yeah yeah exactly, it's one of the biggest
New Years run in Germany
- Okay
- With, I don't know 5000 athletes
- [Fraser] You shouldn't have told us that,
we thought you had a 30:15
- No, you have to be honest with that so yeah
- Right, so do we have a score there?
- [Man Off Camera] Four-one
- Four-one to Patrick so that's first round goes to Patrick.
(exciting fanfare)
- That's a good spot, (laughing) I won't look.
(beep)
Right so we have round two now with Patrick
and this is a little game of guess the triathletes.
Now I'll give you a couple little clues
cause obviously all triathletes, they are all German
four German triathletes,
three of them raced yesterday with you
and then we've got one other that's a wild card
but still German and still triathlete
but that's the premise here
so I'll open up the first picture
and what we've done here is taken
a little snippet of a picture
and you can maybe see if you can guess it from the picture
then we'll show you the answers at the end.
Right, okay so I'll load this one up.
(beeping)
There we go, right so here's our first picture
Have a think.
- Franz Loeschke
- He got it, Franz Loeschke. Right... down.
Number two.
(beeping)
- Frodo, that's easy
- Frodo, you got that quick that answer came out quick
right minimize that Fraser right, next one
(beeping)
- Sebby.
- Sebby, another quick answer.
- Where's the challenge?
- Final one.
(beeping)
- It's Michael Raelert
- Michael Raelert, I don't think we need to go through
the answers here cause he's pretty spot on
so that's round two to Patrick.
We needed to make that harder. (laughing)
(hula dance music)
- Right we're on to round three here
and I need to try and salvage something
because I'm too nailed down at the moment,
but we've got a game of hula hoop
so I have no idea how I think I'm going to do this
'cause I haven't hula hooped
I think since I was about this high.
What's your chances of hula hooping?
- Same time of not doing this.
- Guess I'm going to give you the first chance
and then I'm going to see (laughing)
Should we do best of three or three shots or just one go?
Yeah let's do best of three and see if we can
cause I don't think I'll keep it going.
And I think we can just, should we get a timer on it?
We got a timer here, so I guess if you can keep it going
I'll be impressed.
(fast paced salsa music)
Not bad, maybe move away from the seat there
and you kept it going.
2.4 seconds okay I'll go now, see what I can do.
Right, let's go.
(fast paced salsa music)
- That was pretty awful, right okay try again
better than 2.4
(laughing)
- Okay let's go.
- Hips, hips
(fast paced salsa music)
- [Man Off Camera] That was 1.4
- Oh it felt longer than your last, right ok
- Triathletes
(fast paced salsa music)
- [Man Off Camera] Not even a second.
- Ah, not even a second, one final go
- What's wrong with that?
- I mean
(fast paced salsa music)
- Oh yeah, now it's rolling, yeah
(laughing)
- [Man Off Camera] Five seconds.
- I think it's game over, I'm not going to get better.
- For the show go on one more time
- Okay one more time, right okay right let's go.
- Let's do this.
(fast paced salsa music)
- [Man Off Camera] 1.7
- 1.7, rather embarrassing,
right so that's for three nil to Patrick
in the GTN versus Patrick show.
- At least I have one win (laughing)
- Oh you've got lots of wins.
(crowd cheering)
- Right now I'm afraid I can't salvage anything here
because Patrick single handedly demolished me three nil
but we have got one final round here,
it's not really a round but finishing up things off with
Patrick giving us three things
or even just some things that we might
not know about Patrick Lange
so what do you think would be
the first thing we know about you?
- As a kid I worked at my uncle's butchery
so I'm a vegetarian now for ten years.
- So is it the length you worked in the butcher's
and now you're.
- Yeah probably yes, so working and also killing
those pigs definitely left a mark in my mind.
- Yeah I can imagine.
- Yeah it was interesting and I bet if some
more people would have had this experience
we would definitely had more vegetarians.
- It's not funny but when you mention a pig butcher
I was hosted last year at Challenge Roth
and that's what the family did.
They had their own in house butchery,
and they insisted on me coming
to have a look at what they did,
I'm not a vegetarian but yeah
I didn't enjoy going in there and seeing that.
It should have been something that maybe
made me think more about eating meat
and I'm still eating meat but
It wasn't something I particularly enjoyed that day
but I didn't want to be rude and they wanted to show me
so I went and had a look and they showed me around.
We don't really think about it when it ends up on our plate.
- No, not really.
- Okay, anything sporting related
were there any other different sports when you were younger?
- I had the normal German childhood so I played soccer
I've been the guy who always runs up the field
- [Fraser] Not much with the ball but
- I wasn't the fastest but at least
I was the one who never got tired,
then I changed completely, I raced go cart
so I've been into motor sports
- To go to F1 maybe?
- Yeah it was always my dream.
- But that's expensive.
- Yeah it was so great and also
I remember the year when Mike Shumacher
became sportsperson of the year
and I can really think back
when I was sitting with my dad on the couch watching
this and I really though how cool it must be
to stand on the stage and be sportsperson of the year
- [Fraser] But you have been.
- Yeah, last year, I have been there
so not an F1.
- But a triathlete is a big sport in Germany too.
- Yeah it gets bigger and bigger
- Oh wow, and anything else swim, bike or run related
you did?
- Yeah definitely, at the age of 15
I rode a 120 kilometer mountain bike marathon.
- 120 kilometers on a mountain bike,
I don't think I've even ridden 100 kilometers
on any bike when I was fifteen.
- Yeah so everything was endurance pointed after that.
- Fascinating, well thanks so much
for taking us through all those bits and pieces
and not so much thanks for beating me
3 nil in the challenge, but hopefully
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that gave Mark and I an absolute hammering going up
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