Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams At Any Stage In Your Life Audiobook (Free)
- Rebecca Lowman
- 7 h 30 min
- Random House (Audio)
- 2009-04-07
Summary:
From legendary Olympic silver medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying suit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams.
Dara Torres captured the hearts and thoughts of Americans of all age range when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at age forty-one-years after she had retired from competitive swimming and eight years since her last Olympics. When she required three silver medals in Beijing-including a heartbreaking .01-second finish behind the about Age Is a Number: Achieve Your Dreams At Any kind of Stage In YOUR DAILY LIFE precious metal medalist in the women’s 50-meter freestyle-America loved her all the more for her amazing achievement and her good-natured acceptance of the results.
Today, in Age Is a Quantity, Dara reveals the way the dream of an Olympic comeback 1st came to her-when she was weeks into her initial, hard-won pregnancy. With humor and candor, Dara recounts how she returned to critical training-while nursing her infant daughter and contending with her beloved father’s long battle with malignancy.
Dara discussions frankly about diving back for this comeback; about as an old athlete inside a youthful athletes’ game; about competition, doubt, and perception; about functioning through discomfort and doubt; and finally-about seizing as soon as and, most important, never quitting. A truly self-made legend, her story will resonate with ladies of all ages-and with anyone daring to amuse a seemingly impossible dream.
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