Iron Cowboy - Redefine Impossible

De: James Lawrence

Narrado por: Millian Quinteros

Iron Cowboy is an endurance memoir in the tradition of Dean Karnazes’s Ultramarathon Man - a lifetime’s worth of intensely lived experience packed into 20 riveting chapters. Listeners will discover the secret to redefining their own goals and achieving great success. When James Lawrence (aka the Iron Cowboy) announced his plan to complete 50 full-distance triathlons in 50 consecutive days in all 50 states, the only person who believed that he could pull it off was James himself (and his wife, Sunny). An Ironman consists of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile run. In Lawrence’s case, he would have to complete those distances and then make it to the next state in time to do it all over again the next day. Even Lawrence’s coach didn’t think he could do it; he penciled in another event the day Lawrence was supposed to complete the challenge.

But with the support of Sunny and their five children in tow, and with grassroots support conjured always at the last minute via Facebook, Lawrence accomplished exactly what he set out to do. Iron Cowboy is the story of Lawrence’s herculean 50-day journey and all the wonderful, miserable, and life-threatening events that happened along the way, as well as a glance at his life leading up to the mission, and winning two prior world records.

Lawrence holds two world records in the Guinness Book of World Records: one for completing 22 half-Ironmans in one year (2010) and one for completing 30 full Ironmans in one year (2012). In 2015, he set a record for completing 50 Ironman distances in 50 states in 50 days. Through social media and press, Lawrence was able to find fans in each state - anywhere from three to 500 people - to complete some of the Ironman alongside him, and supporters were invited to join him for the Iron Cowboy 5k (the last 3.1 miles of James’s marathon); for his last Ironman in his home state of Utah, more than 3,500 people showed up. Along the way, Lawrence survived tropical storms, internal bleeding, hypothermia, hyperthermia, dehydration, nerve damage, infected foot blisters, a blood-clot scare, extreme sleep deprivation (he only got four to five hours of sleep each night), and a bike crash!

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I struggled to finish from begining to end

So, I'm really late on who the Iron Cowboy is. I was browsing Amazon prime and saw the documentary. watched it with my eyes wide open and didn't look at my phone once! blown away.Looked James up and he just finished his 101 iron man's.But I figure let's go to the begining. I picked up the audible to find more details. honestly, I thought this book was all over the place. it was like a couple books, then like a deck of cards flipped into each other. I personally had a hard time following along. The book is about the torcher of the iron man's. I feel like I know all about his shoulder, because it was like the focus of every chapter. I get it, it hurt. But that's tik tok or youtube podcast content. Granted, by day 7, it was terrible. But, that's just about all this book is. In the end, it's still not much. I'm really impressed with Iron Cowboy, just not with this book. I think the author that helped David Goggins, did such a better job capturing his story. anyways, I would recommend the documentary. Not the book.

Great story, wonky narration

I loved the story. The narration was kind of wonky in that the narrator made weird pauses where there shouldn't be, like there were commas in places there shouldn't be.

Great story!!

Loved this story! What a motivating individual! I will re listen when inspiration is needed.
The reading voice was monotonous and sounds quite robotic often... my only complaint.

I love the Iron Cowboy!

I have been following the Iron Cowboy and his many feats of endurance. I was super excited to “read” this book once I got it. The story is wonderfully written and makes you feel like you’re there. Unfortunately, because I’ve heard the Iron Cowboy speak so many times, the narrator of this audiobook left little to be desired.

Will help put struggle into perspective

This book will help you reframe what is possible and what real mental toughness looks like.

it's OKAY

there's no way that the story was this boring. seems to not be told well.

So inspiring

I listened as I did my long runs. This book is interesting and inspiring. Kept me running for hours.

Just inspiring!

Great read! From beginning to end! I’ll reading this one a couple of more time!

Very motivating. Good storytelling.

This was a great retelling of an epic adventure that I’m sure seemed impossible to capture in so many words. But like the 50-50-50 James rose to the occasion and did what he had to do to get it done. I’m in the midst of training for a 100 mile trail race and this book has been great to listen to as I train. I am a father like James and parts of the book were very emotional for me as he talked about his children. I also got emotional as he talked about the specific people who changed their lives after joining him for a portion of his challenge. If you’re looking to be motivated to do “the impossible” this is the book for you.