A.T.H.L.E.T.E: A Life in Athletics

... recent sport history has shown that today's professional competitors are relying more and more on PEDs - Performance Enhancing Drugs - to gain an advantage to win - less so for the resulting fame and glory than for the increasingly lucrative contracts and commercial endorsements - the attraction of such unprecedented wealth has so blurred the definition of what an athlete is or has become that it seems the time has come to hit the proverbial 'Reset Button' - to redefine what an athlete is or is supposed to be - based on the historical legacy we inherited from ancient Greece - this text focuses on those athletes who - like the author - are the unheralded - the unsupported - those without the glory - fame and wealth that accompanies it - there are no fans to witness the accomplishments - no medals - no sports reporters at the finish line - the personal sweet victories or bitter defeats are theirs alone - it is a story of the sheer pain day in and day out that accompanies their pursuit of athletic excellence or ar?te on their own personal scale - it is at once a story of the competitive spirit - its inexplicable loss and rediscovery - it is ongoing this 'Life in Athletics' - it is a simplistic and humble account of this authors athletic experiences that are not meant to be 'the voice' of all athletes but for those who have pursued athletics with similar ambitions in the hope that it will also inspire others to do so ...

Author: Glenn Michael Morley

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Apr 06, 2015

Number of Pages: 198 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1511626429

ISBN-13: 9781511626422