Unbroken
Posted this in the IMCDA Group and thought I would share:
As a great read and a potential source of motivation, I recommend "Unbroken" which is the story of an Olympic runner in WW2. He was shot down, survived in a raft in the Pacific for 34 days and then spent 2 years as a POW in conditions about as bad as can be imagined. Actually, I suspect they were worse than can be imagined. Risking dishonoring that type of ordeal by even mentioning it in the same sentence as something that we get to do, but I couldn't help thinking how excited he would have been to do what we get to do every day. It is a story of incredible perseverance. Our darkest moments would have been the best part of his day. By a long shot.
By way of general commentary on the next 12 weeks... Stopping or not working out becuause you are risking injury/are injured is one thing. For me, for as long as I can hold the motivation, I'll try and think of that man... no way would he have stopped because he was tired or didn't feel like it.
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Art,
Thanks for the recommendation. See the "What are/have you read" thread in the Off-Topic forum. Lots of great book recommendations in there.