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Second Wind: The Rise of the Ageless Athlete 简介：

Meet and learn why older men and women are passionate about fitness and athletics:

-Don McNelly has completed more than 150 marathons after the age of 80.

-Philippa Raschker has dedicated her life to track and was edged out for the Sullivan Award by swimmer Michael Phelps.

-Clarence Bass, in his 70s, has the polished physique of a man 50 years younger.
Second Wind: The Rise of the Ageless Athleteis an absorbing account of a growing subculture of Americans who are challenging the notion of what it means to grow old.

Second Wind: The Rise of the Ageless Athlete 目录：

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: Sprinting Into Midlife 1
Part I Starting Out 9
Chapter 1 From the Bench to the
Bench Press . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 2 The Comeback . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 3 Older and Faster . . . . . . . 35
Chapter 4 The American Birkebeiner . . . 51
Part II Defying Age 65
Chapter 5 Fabulous Abs . . . . . . . . . 67
Chapter 6 I Want to Be a Winner . . . . 81
Chapter 7 A Runner’s Heart . . . . . . . 95
Chapter 8 Ironwoman . . . . . . . . . . 109
Part III The Long Haul 123
Chapter 9 Streakers . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Chapter 10 Swimming Against the
Tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Chapter 11 Racing Across America . . . . 153
Chapter 12 Marathon Man . . . . . . . . 171
Epilogue: Ageless Role Models 183
Appendix: Official USRSA Streak Registries 185
References and Bibliography 195
Index 199
About the Author 203

Second Wind: The Rise of the Ageless Athlete 评价：

"Finally, a book that enables people to see that we do get better with age. Second Wind: The Rise of the Ageless Athlete is a wonderful story about mature athletes who just keep going through sports and life."

Lynne Cox
Author of Swimming to Antarctica
Swam the Bering Strait

"At long last, someone has given masters athletes their due. Read Second Wind and be inspired."

Sean Callahan
Editor, Masters Athlete magazine

"Second Wind reminds us of the vast potential of the human body even as it ages, and that the clock can indeed be turned back. It's just what I recommend."

Nicholas DiNubile, MD
Best-selling author of FrameWork
Host of the award-winning PBS special "Your Body's FrameWork"
From the Publisher
"Finally, a book that enables people to see that we do get better with age. Second Wind: The Rise of the Ageless Athlete is a wonderful story about mature athletes who just keep going through sports and life."
Lynne Cox
Author of Swimming to Antarctica
Swam the Bering Strait

"At long last, someone has given masters athletes their due. Read Second Wind and be inspired."

Sean Callahan
Editor, Masters Athlete magazine

"Second Wind reminds us of the vast potential of the human body even as it ages, and that the clock can indeed be turned back. It's just what I recommend."

Nicholas DiNubile, MD
Best-selling author of FrameWork
Host of the award-winning PBS special Your Body's FrameWork

About the Author
Lee Bergquist is an award-winning writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Past 50 himself, he stays in shape by running, biking, swimming, and skateboarding. In his 40s, Bergquist competed in masters track in the 100-, 200-, and 400-meter sprints. He lives in Whitefish Bay, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Second Wind: The Rise of the Ageless Athlete 读者评论：

I thought your readers might be interested in a few words from someone profiled in this book. I'm the 70-year-old bodybuilder.
Lee Bergquist first contacted me late in 2004, and has been in regular contact since then--by telephone, email and in person. He actually came here and talked, ate, and trained with me.
I knew he was working on the book long and hard. Still, I didn't fully appreciate the size and scope of his undertaking. He criss-crossed the country talking to and observing an amazing array of elite older athletes. They're all passionate about what they do.
Lee tells the stories of 18 masters athletes in an informed, curious, and honest way. Unlike most books of this type, Second Wind looks behind every tree and under every rock. No rose-colored glasses treatment here. Think magnifying glass.
Bergquist tells about these athletes, warts and all. He digs beneath the surface to see what makes each one tick, what drives them. Sometimes it's not so pretty, but it is always interesting and instructive.
Lee explores weaknesses as well as strengths, including personal, financial, and psychological quandaries. Among other things, he probes the use of performance enhancing drugs, feelings of inadequacy, memory problems, childhood troubles, and eccentric behavior traits. As you might expect, he uncovers orthopedic problems experienced by just about everyone. He ferrets out the full and complete stories of these high performance athletes. Most of them have problems of one sort or another, and all of them have inspiring stories to tell.

Once again we are exposed to the individuals who excel in athletics. But this time it is with people who you will only know as high achievers if you happen to belong to their chosen sports. In a way this is excellent and I don't doubt that there are some middle-agers who will take inspiration from the stories told here, and written in a Sunday-supplement style, therefore very accessible. But as a striving 60-year old I've a few quibbles. First, I am not at the top of my sport. A number of his athletes are people who excelled in college. How will I interpret their regimens with my own desire to simply be my best? This is summed-up by the Lance Armstrong effect. It is ridiculous for media to bombard all cycling with the WWLAD? Read Daniel Coyle's Lance Armstrong's War, in it Chris Carmichael tells us that his charge is exceptional from a genetic background. Great for him. But when I get on my cycle I want to craft my efforts for my body and mind, LA is not my template. Bergquist thus makes it difficult to glean from the articles, points of technical interest relevant to aspiring aging athletes. That's my second complaint, very difficult to utilise this information as more than a Parade-type profile. Third, stop lumping 40-year olds as 'Masters' athletes. This is a pathetic myth. If I were forty again I'd even dream of being a domestique in TDF. Wrap-up: I would recommend reading but I find it a strange inclusion for Human Kinetics, a top-notch contributor to our pursuits.

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