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Can't Swim, Can't Ride, Can't Run: From Common Man to Ironman
Andy Holgate · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorMuscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder
Samuel Wilson Fussell · 252 pages
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Dean Karnazes · 295 pages
Ultrarunning legend Dean Karnazes has run 262 miles-the equivalent of ten marathons-without rest. He has run over mountains, across Death Valley, and to the South Pole-and is probably the first person to eat an entire pizza while running. With an insight, candor, and humor rarely seen in sports memoirs (and written without the aid of a ghostwriter or cowriter), Ultramarathon Man has inspired tens
My Life on the Run: The Wit, Wisdom, and Insights of a Road Racing Icon
Bart Yasso, Kathleen Parrish · 270 pages
Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall · 256 pages
Running Like a Girl
Alexandra Heminsley · 220 pages
"In her twenties, Alexandra Heminsley spent more time drinking white wine than she did in pursuit of athletic excellence. When she decided to take up running in her thirties, she had high hopes for a blissful runner's high and immediate physical transformation. After eating three slices of toast with honey and spending ninety minutes on iTunes creating the perfect playlist, she hit the streets--an
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami · 179 pages
Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across Americ a
Marshall Ulrich
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
David Goggins · 366 pages
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Lynne Cox, Martha Kaplan · 360 pages
- At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland.- At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men's and women's world records for swimming the English Channel--a thirty-three-mile crossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes.- At eighteen, she swam the twenty-mile Cook Strait between North and South Islands of New Zealand, was caught on a massive swell, fo
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins · 289 pages
Everything to Live For: The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt
Turia Pitt · 336 pages
My Year of Running Dangerously
Tom Foreman · 288 pages
"CNN correspondent Tom Foreman's remarkable journey from half-hearted couch potato to ultra-marathon runner, with four half-marathons, three marathons, and 2,000 miles of training in between; a poignant and warm-hearted tale of parenting, overcoming the challenges of age, and quiet triumph. As a journalist whose career spans three decades, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman has reported from the heart
Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
Rich Roll · 288 pages
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman
Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir
Jennette Fulda · 300 pages
The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl
Shauna Reid · 400 pages
A hilarious and heartwarming tale of a real-life superhero who battled the bulge and won.In January 2001 Shauna Reid was twenty-three years old and twenty-five stone. Determined to turn her life around, she created the hugely successful weblog The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl and, hiding behind her Lycra-clad roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began. Toda
An American Caddie in St. Andrews: Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course
Oliver Horovitz · 322 pages
Oliver Horovitz had been accepted at Harvard, but he couldn't start for another year. A caddie since he was twelve and a golfer sporting a 1.8 handicap, Ollie decides to spend his gap year in St. Andrews, Scotland--a town with the U.K.'s highest number of pubs per capita, and home to the Old Course, golf 's most famous eighteen holes--where he enrolls in the St. Andrews Links Trust caddie trainee
Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro
Phil Gaimon · 302 pages
"Abandoning his former life as a couch potato and gamer, Phil Gaimon begin riding a bicycle in 2004 with the goal of shedding a few pounds. By sheer accident, he discovered he was a natural, advancing so rapidly through the amateur ranks that he entered the pro peloton utterly ignorant of a century of cycling etiquette. He recounts the difficulties of making ends meet on a salary of $166 a month,
The Rock Says
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Joe Layden · 292 pages