Böcker av Ray Fauteux

This book is for all those who have a dream. Many people leave this earth without realizing the full potential they have within. It's easier to be content. It's easier to avoid failure that's always a possibility when taking a risk. Yet, what are we if we risk nothing? We miss out on the pure exhilaration of success. We miss out on the realization of discovering just how remarkable we are once we unleash our true spirit within. This is the story of Sam. He's out of shape, overweight, and smokes and drinks too much. His life is on a downward slide as he enters middle-age. He lives his life vicariously through the sports stars he sees on T.V. He knows it can never be him on the highway of outstanding achievement and glory. He is destined to always be on the sidelines. In one fortuitous moment in time, that suddenly changes. While watching a telecast of Wide World of Sports in 1982, Sam witnesses a race going on in Kona, Hawaii. He watches exhausted, jubilant athletes cross the finish line as darkness settles over the finish line. Sam is mesmerized but these seemingly ordinary people doing something extraordinary. They swam 2.4 miles, biked 112 miles and ran a marathon all in the same day. It was called the Ironman Triathlon. Sam is moved by it and it haunts him for days. Some unseen force is calling to him. Despite not having run since he was a kid, not knowing how to swim a stroke, or not knowing how to ride a road bike, Sam decides he's going to Kona, Hawaii. He just has to cross that finish line.Despite all odds, Sam finds himself arriving in Kona two years later. Once there, he crosses paths with Morgan. Morgan is a teenage girl with a fierce competitive spirit. She's in Kona to beat as many people as she can, and Sam is there just trying to survive. This is the story of their unlikely alliance. This is the story of how they took on what was at the time, the most challenging endurance race in the world. It was a time when there were no coaches, no special diets, no training books, no triathlon specific equipment, and just your basic road bike. It was a time when emotional strength, desire, and the spirit within were the deciding factors that determined the final outcome of Sam and Morgan's date with destiny.

Become more than you ever thought possible. This in a nutshell describes what this book is all about. It's biographical in nature and explains in honest detail how the author took on one seemingly insurmountable challenge after another. He went from a sedentary lifestyle to one day being inspired to take up running for the first time in 1977 and completing his first marathon just five months later in under three and a half hours. That first accomplishment gave him the confidence and self-belief to run many more marathons and seven years later take on and complete the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon in 1984. At the end of a long career that spanned 25 years as a marathoner and Ironman triathlete he taught himself how to use a computer and build a website with the goal of passing on all he learned during his Ironman career. His goal was to inspire others around the world who heard the call of the Ironman to take on the daunting challenge of this iconic race for themselves. He went on to become an author of a book called Ironstruck...the Ironman Triathlon Journey in 2006 that is still popular among the novice triathetes of the world and has since been updated. This led to eight more books that were all written with the same message for his readers. Believe in yourself and you will be amazed at what you can accomplish and how you will become more than you ever thought possible.