Iron Cowboy is an patience memoir within the culture of Dean Karnazes’s Ultramarathon Man—a lifetime’s worthy of intensely lived adventure packed into twenty riveting chapters written by means of Matt Fitzgerald, the best activities narrative writers. similar to James Lawrence’s legions of enthusiasts, readers will notice via Lawrence’s awesome tale the key to reaching own ambitions of all kinds.
When James Lawrence (aka the Iron Cowboy) introduced his plan to accomplish 50 Ironmans in 50 consecutive days in all 50 states, the single one who believed that he might pull it off was once James himself (and his spouse, Sunny). An Ironman includes a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile motorcycle trip, and a 26.2-mile run. In Lawrence’s case, he must whole these distances after which make it to the subsequent nation in time to do all of it another time the next day to come. Even Lawrence’s trainer didn’t imagine he may possibly do it; he penciled in one other occasion the day Lawrence used to be imagined to entire the problem. yet with the aid of Sunny and their 5 kids in tow, and with grassroots aid conjured constantly on the final minute through fb, Lawrence finished precisely what he got down to do. Iron Cowboy is the tale of Lawrence’s herculean 50-day trip and all of the superb, depressing, and life-threatening occasions that occurred alongside the best way, in addition to a look at his lifestyles major as much as the undertaking, and successful previous international files.
Lawrence holds global documents within the Guinness booklet of worldwide Records: one for finishing 22 half-Ironmans in a single yr (2010) and one for finishing 30 complete Ironmans in a single 12 months (2012). In 2015, he set a checklist for finishing 50 Ironman distances in 50 states in 50 days. via social media and press, Lawrence was once capable of finding fanatics in every one state—anywhere from three to 500 people—to whole many of the Ironman along him, and supporters have been invited to affix him for the Iron Cowboy 5k (the final 3.1 miles of James’s marathon); for his final Ironman in his domestic nation of Utah, greater than 3,500 to 4,000 humans confirmed up. alongside the way in which, Lawrence survived tropical storms, inner bleeding, hypothermia, hyperthermia, dehydration, nerve harm, contaminated foot blisters, a blood-clot scare, severe sleep deprivation (he merely received 4 to 5 hours of sleep each one night), and a motorcycle crash—and simply because he’s Mormon he did all of it with no espresso!
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