Crawl of fame: Julie Moss and the fifteen meters that created an ironman triathlon legend
✍ Scribed by Moss, Julie;Yehling, Robert
- Book ID
- 100634946
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- United States.
- ISBN
- 1681779218
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The courageous and transformative story of triathlon hall-of-fame athlete Julie Moss.
In 1982, Julie Moss ran the Ironman triathlon for her college senior research project. Her idea was quirky, even crazy; only a handful of hardcore, highly trained enthusiasts competed in the little-known, 140.6-mile combination of swimming, cycling, and running. Julie brought no experience or appreciable training beyond running two marathons. She did bring a latent willpower that, the world soon found out, wouldn't be denied. What happened next changed Ironman forever . . .
After becoming the unlikely leader during the marathon, the final leg of the Ironman, Julie fell and lost all bodily function fifteen meters (50 feet) from the finish. While on hands and knees, she watched her rival pass her. Thirty seconds later, she crawled across the line--stunning the millions who were watching on television. At age twenty-three, Julie became the instant global icon, and the public...
✦ Subjects
United States