- 218 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Known by fans as "The Penguin" for his back-of-the-pack speed, John Bingham is the unlikely hero of the modern running boom. In his new book, the best-selling author and magazine columnist recalls his childhood dreams of athletic glory, sedentary years of unhealthy excess, and a life-changing transformation from couch potato to "adult-onset athlete." Overweight, uninspired, and saddled with a pack-and-a-half-a-day smoking habit, Bingham found himself firmly wedged into a middle-age slump. Then two frightening trips to the emergency room and a conversation with a happy piano tuner led him to discover running--and changed his life for the better. Inspiring, poignant, hilarious, and heartbreaking, An Accidental Athlete is a warm and engaging book for the everyday athlete. Bingham tells stories of the joys of running--the pride of the finisher's medal, a bureau-busting t-shirt collection, intense back-of-the-pack strategizing. An Accidental Athlete is about one man's discovery that middle age was not the finish line after all, but only the beginning.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I ⢠The Kid Picked Last
- Part II ⢠The Adult-Onset Athlete
- Part III ⢠The Glory Years
- Part IV ⢠The Back Nine
- Epilogue: Running into Myself
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author