After months of non picking up a non-fiction novel for reading,
New York bestseller ‘Unbroken’ was my pick, the reason I picked was couple of
them:
Author: Laura
Hillenbrand, her previous work was ‘Seabuiscuit’ (check link its one of my best
movies)
Subject: The
story is about survival and how much a person experience in his life time - Louis Zamperini
As a Kid: he made
sure that the whole town ‘Torrance’ has stories to narrate relating to his mischief.
As a Teenager: he
started running, that’s when he realized what he wants to achieve and where he
wants his name listed (As a best Miler – race of one mile), he wanted him to list
as Olympic Medal winner.
Olympic Stint: Louie
dream of participating in Olympic came true, at the age of 19 when he was
competing in the finals of 5000meter race (Athletes peak performance age is 24-29)
he finished only 7th but something will make him famous, the last
lap of the race, the race winner took 69.2 seconds but Louie finished the last
lap in 56seconds, and Louie final time was 14.46.8
The record is Unbroken,
fastest one mile run (a mile run is a 3 lap race with timing 61.2, 58.9 and
59.1 seconds) Louie is still 3 seconds faster.
World War II: He
enrolled himself, becoming a bombardier for B-24 (Bombardier, is the guy who is
located at the tip of the plane and identifies the target and makes a drop) he
was in many bombing and rescue missions.
POW: In one of
the rescue mission his plane crashed in Pacific ocean, he and his 2 other
fellow survived in a raft sailing almost 2000miles, later being captured as a
POW
Life after War: A hero back home, life followed him ever y where.
He was a torch bearer for 1984 Summer Olympics.
In his sixties he was still clocking less than 6 minutes a
mile. At age 81 he took Skateboarding
And still rocking strong at age 92
Whereas yesterday running my 5k run on thread mille took
well over 26 minutes, and my best 1 miles run timed, 7.15 minutes, were Louie
clocked under 6 minutes well in his 60’s, I am a long way to beat him at his
age on a mile run.
1 comment:
Motivational read... nice one...
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