As the Crow Flies: My Journey to Ironman World Champion

US: VeloPress, 2012. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. When he became just the fourth man to win three Ironman© World Championship s, Craig "Crowie" Alexander joined triathlon's most elite inner circle of c hampions. In As the Crow Flies, the five-time world champion reveals his approach, hi s training, and the relationships that delivered the record-breaking race p erformance he says was a decade in the making. In his own words and through striking photographs from acclaimed sports photographer Paul K. Robbins, C rowie shows what it takes to race at the elite level--and how he balances t he work of triathlon with his first priority, his wife Neri and their young kids Lucy and Austin. Alexander reflects on influential moments of his early career and his entir e 2011 and early 2012 season, bringing triathletes inside his head during k ey workouts, training blocks, and pivotal moments in big races. Crowie stru ggles through injury, illness, and changing sponsorships, revealing the del icate balance between elite performance and disaster. Yet hardship on the r oad to Kona yielded to Crowie's hard work and determination as he won both the Ironman and Ironman 70.3© world championships, making him the first per son to win both championships in the same year. Epic workouts, grueling travel, record-setting race performance, giving back to sponsors and the sport--these are the tools of Crowie's trade, not to mention sleek wetsuits, cutting-edge time trial bikes, and technical footwear. And while those who know the sport of triathlon intimately will say.