Ebook: Against the wind: an Ironwoman's race for her family's survival

""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Prologue""; ""1. Running: The Beginning""; ""2. November 2009""; ""3. The Cushing Girls Minus One""; ""4. Christmas, Lee Style""; ""5. Ill Health Rings In the New Year""; ""6. Two Wins and a Scare""; ""7. More Tests to Endure""; ""8. Triathlons Are Contagious""; ""9. Nurse McNicey Returns""; ""10. Sarcoma""; ""11. Lee and Lee""; ""12. Itâ#x80;#x99;s Cancer""; ""13. We Will Beat This!""; ""14. And So It Beginsâ#x80;#x94;A New Race""; ""15. Fast Track/Slow Track""; ""16. Swan Songâ#x80;#x94;Ironman Canada 2000""; ""17. A New Routine"";In her own words, the inspiring true story of an endurance runner who finds her character put to the test by an unthinkable personal tragedy. Lee DiPietro discovered the exhilaration of endurance athletics when she ran her first half marathon in her late twenties. From that day forward, she took on every race that she could, and despite having to juggle running with her responsibilities as a wife and mother, she quickly established herself as one of the best runners in the United States. Over the next thirty years Lee won race after race, competing in everything from local 5Ks to the three most challenging endurance races of all: the Boston Marathon, New York City Marathon, and Ironman triathlon. What she did not foresee, as she climbed the ranks of the endurance world, was the role running would play in helping her persevere in the face of great adversity. When her husband was diagnosed with cancer and her son suffered a devastating accident, Lee found herself falling back on the lessons she learned as a marathoner to help her prevail in the struggle to save her family. In Against the Wind, she takes us through her harrowing yearlong fight for the lives of her husband and son. This is a story that will resonate with anyone whose life has been affected by cancer, as well as all those who are dedicated to endurance sports. It proves that running is more than a pastime, far from just a test of one's mettle. It is, for many people, quite simply a matter of life and death.