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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The ironman is a contest against a fixed and unyielding foe: the race itself. It brings out the best in people, and it is a victory when you finish it.
#2 The Ironman race is a part of the folklore of the sport. It is a drama that captured the imagination of millions of Americans. The main question for the ironman athlete is, will I finish and at what cost. Even if your body does not break down through sheer fatigue, there is still a chance for an unexpected injury.
#3 The swim is the most beautiful and sublime moment of the ironman, but it is also the most difficult. The idea is to get ‘on the feet’ of the fastest swimmers, in other words to move in behind them and take advantage of their slipstream.
#4 The final leg is when even the best start to wrestle with their demons. After 112 miles sitting on an unforgiving saddle, crouched low over the handlebars to maximize your aerodynamics, and pumping your legs remorselessly, taking to your feet for the marathon can be a strange sensation.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	31 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822525986
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The ironman is a contest against a fixed and unyielding foe: the race itself. It brings out the best in people, and it is a victory when you finish it.

#2

The Ironman race is a part of the folklore of the sport. It is a drama that captured the imagination of millions of Americans. The main question for the ironman athlete is, will I finish and at what cost. Even if your body does not break down through sheer fatigue, there is still a chance for an unexpected injury.

#3

The swim is the most beautiful and sublime moment of the ironman, but it is also the most difficult. The idea is to get ‘on the feet’ of the fastest swimmers, in other words to move in behind them and take advantage of their slipstream.

#4

The final leg is when even the best start to wrestle with their demons. After 112 miles sitting on an unforgiving saddle, crouched low over the handlebars to maximize your aerodynamics, and pumping your legs remorselessly, taking to your feet for the marathon can be a strange sensation.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I have an addictive personality. I am a control freak, and I have always had the most intense desire to make the best of myself. I have a difficult relationship with my body, and I have been addicted to sport.

#2

I have changed my mind about my body because I no longer see it as just a collection of contours and colors, but as a holistic system that allows me to do what I do. I see it as bound up intricately with me, enabling me to be who I am.

#3

I was extremely driven as a child. I knew only that the world was full of so many wonderful things, and I wanted to experience as many of them as possible. I was extremely fiery, and I could not show any weakness or weakness, for fear of people judging me negatively.

#4

I was always up for an adventure, and I loved to play sports. I was dangled in water at three weeks old, and I never showed any signs of fear. I was able to give vent to all the normal childhood mischief I denied myself in the classroom.

#5

I was not very popular in my secondary school, and I didn’t want to be liked. I was a sensitive soul, and I wanted to be liked. I grew my hair out and became more comfortable with my appearance.

#6

I had a very controlling attitude towards smoking, alcohol, and boys. I was terrified that my parents would take up smoking or drinking, and that I would become a drug addict.

#7

I had a friend who told me about her experience with bulimia. It planted a seed in my mind, and I began to think about how I could control what I ate. I spent more moments over the following few years than I would care to count doubled up over a toilet bowl, trying to spit the cloying bile and acid from my mouth.

#8

I was so competitive and sensitive to the views of others that I was bound to internalize the images we were being bombarded with. I was an appalling driver, and I left school with three As at A-level and an A* for the geology GCSE I had taken as an extra subject.

#9

I thrived at university, and I was always first in line to check out the latest journals and articles. I was on a mission, and I wanted to make the most of everything. I was selfish in that regard.

#10

I joined the university swimming team, more for the social side than any sporting ambitions. I wrote for the student newspaper, Redbrick, on current affairs in and around the university. I was selected for the university council. I became captain of the swimming team.

#11

I eventually embraced alcohol in my second year of university, and I began to drink heavily. I never lost control, and I knew when to stop. Compared to the other type of vomiting that had been a feature of my life, it was nothing.

#12

The pressure of expectations is a necessary evil if you want to achieve. It brings with it great stress, but you deal with it, and the redemption comes when you achieve things as a result. It can also be debilitating on a day-to-day level, if its benefits are illusory.

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