Paper Doesn't Run. I Do.: My 22-Year Journey from Karate, Injuries, and Doubt to a Marathon Before Fifty (The Paper Triangle) - Softcover

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Twenty-two years of records, injuries, returns, and adaptation.

From karate beginning in 1991 through damaged knees, spine problems, cardiac warnings, work, fatherhood, moves, and a goal forced to wait until nearly fifty.

Paper Doesn’t Run. I Do. is not a marathon manual and not a story about heroically defeating the body. It is a documentary personal memoir about what happens to a goal when life refuses to cooperate with the plan—and about learning when discipline means persistence, when it means adaptation, and when it means stopping.

Built from training records, medical documents, family chronology, data, setbacks, rehabilitation, and the ordinary fatigue of adult life, the book follows one long return to a finish line that once seemed destined for age forty-two.

The point is not that everyone should run a marathon. The point is that almost everyone has a goal large enough to matter.

A Book in The Paper Triangle series.

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