Racing the Sunset: How Athletes Survive, Thrive, or Fail in Life After Sport

A seventh-generation Californian, Scott Tinley led the quintessential Golden State dream. As he grew from seaside rat to lifeguard to a leisure administration main, it appeared solely pure to him that he would attempt to parlay the athletic abilities gleaned from this idyllic way of life right into a occupation as top-of-the-line triathletes on the planet. For twenty years, his ability, tenacity, and devil-may-care perspective guided him alongside the trail.
However when age took maintain of his legs, and no quantity of coaching would assist, his athletic gold rush went bust. Cracks in his psyche started to point out, as if beneath all of it—like a lot of California itself—his athletic life had been constructed on a fault. All the time introspective and inquiring, Tinley threw himself headlong into athlete retirement and the bigger problems with life transition and alter. His new journey, pushed by his quest for private development and therapeutic, was stuffed with ache, false begins, and heartrending intimacies. It led him to lots of of different retired skilled athletes who would overtly focus on their very own triumphs and tragedies. With a lot self-discipline, Tinley accomplished one of the crucial thorough athlete analysis initiatives ever tried, and befriended such superstars as Invoice Walton, Eric Heiden, Greg LeMond, Jerry Sherk, Steve Scott, and Rick Sutcliffe. Alongside the way in which he uncovered secrets and techniques about himself and the method of change, turmoil, and last acceptance, all shared overtly and eloquently in Racing the Sundown. This e-book will do for athletes of each degree what Passages did for a complete era.
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1632205645
Writer ‏ : ‎ Skyhorse
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 21, 2015
Version ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print size ‏ : ‎ 376 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781632205643
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1632205643
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches