Finding Ultra
There are few books I read twice. Rich Roll’s Finding Ultra is one of them. I wrote about it two years ago.
Goodreads introduces the book as follows
Finding Ultra is an incredible but true account of achieving one of the most awe-inspiring midlife physical transformations ever. On the night before he was to turn forty, Rich Roll experienced a chilling glimpse of his future. Nearly fifty pounds overweight and unable to climb the stairs without stopping, he could see where his current sedentary life was taking him—and he woke up. Plunging into a new routine that prioritized a plant-based lifestyle and daily training, Rich morphed—in a matter of mere months—from out of shape, mid-life couch potato to endurance machine. Finding Ultra recounts Rich’s remarkable journey to the starting line of the elite Ultraman competition, which pits the world’s fittest humans in a 320-mile ordeal of swimming, biking, and running. And following that test, Rich conquered an even greater one: the EPIC5—five Ironman-distance triathlons, each on a different Hawaiian island, all completed in less than a week.
Finding Ultra does not disappoint. This is not a macho-Navy-Seal-I-can-do-everything-elite-endurance-book. As a matter of fact, endurance sports is only the backdrop. This is a book about healing, finding a healthy lifestyle, and about optimism. The book is very inspiring and makes me pull harder in the water, push twice as hard on the bike, and kick with a vengeance on the trail.