Running into the Dark: A Blind Man's Record-Setting Run Across America

Synopsis

A man takes on the challenge of a lifetime after hitting rock bottom. He finds himself divorced, unemployed and in a deep depression when a degenerative eye condition renders him blind with limited light perception. Feeling a calling to run across America, he dedicated the next two years of his life to prepare for, and ultimately run, over 3,000 miles from California to New York in less than 60 days, averaging 51.5 miles per day, to log the 7th fastest transcontinental foot crossing in the history of the world - less than 300 people have crossed America on foot. It was, and remains the only transcontinental foot-crossing by a blind person.

This is not just a book about running. This is a story of success and failure, healing and hurting, and loss and love. It is a book about struggling with adversity, learning to not give up or give in, to accept one's self for all that one is, and is not. It is every person's story.

Running into the Dark is a manifesto about how to continue ONWARD.

Jason Romero is a highly sought after Keynote Speaker for conventions, conferences and commencements, a US Paralympian who was 4th in the world at the Paralympic World Marathon Championships in 2015, a holder of 13 world records in ultra-running, the subject of a full length documentary and an author. In addition, Jason has been an attorney, an executive at GE and a CEO of a non-profit that helps children with Autism.

Copyright:

2017

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

367 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781941528525

Publisher:

Parker Hayden Media

Date of Addition:

04/08/21

Copyrighted By:

Jason Romero

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Biographies and Memoirs

Submitted By:

Daproim Africa

Proofread By:

Daproim Africa

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.