Second Wind: One Woman's Midlife Quest to Run Seven Marathons on Seven Continents

by Cami Ostman

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Second Wind is the story of an unlikely athlete and an unlikely heroine: Cami Ostman, a woman edging toward midlife who decides to take on a challenge that stretches her way outside of her comfort zone. That challenge presents itself when an old friend suggests she go for a run to distract her from the grief of her recent divorce. Excited by the clarity of mind and breathing space running offers her, she keeps it up ? albeit slowly ? and she decides to run seven marathons on seven show more continents; this becomes Ostman's vision quest, the thing she turns to during the ups and downs of a n show less

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Sports and Leisure, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, Travel
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796.4252Arts & recreationRecreation, sports, and performing artsSportsOlympic sportsTrack events, running; General track and fieldMarathon
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GV1061.15 .O85 .A3Geography, Anthropology and RecreationRecreation. LeisureRecreation. LeisureSportsTrack and field athletics
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