 All right, it's time for another book review today. We are reviewing finding ultra by rich roll Super awesome book. I've read it twice recently read it again Obviously, that's why I have it here with me on lapalma and I want to give you guys my opinion and talk a little bit about the book So obviously this is not really a running book per se. It's more a book about the human spirit and rich rich journey Some of you might know rich roll. He is mostly known for his Podcast the rich roll podcast one of the best podcasts out there in my opinion. You should definitely check it out if you're interested in Almost anything he talks to a lot of different people, but you know has an undercurrent of plant-based diet healthy living athletic pursuits and that sort of thing so definitely check his podcast out and this is his story his book where he talks about how he battled with alcoholism For a long while and how he got out of that and became One of the world's fittest men as it says here Rejecting middle-age becoming one of the world's fittest men and discovering myself finding ultra So yeah, I recently reread it I I did read it Few years back it's been on my shelf and I brought it here to lapalma and reread it. Well, I should I started reading it back in Norway and I loved it. I loved it even more now than I did when I first read it. It's just He writes that with a very He writes with ease, you know, he's he's he's a really good writer. So it's really easy to read really enjoyable It's a normal pocketbook, you know, just a text But in the middle he has a section with pictures That's pretty cool. So and then at the end like the last I don't know the last 10% of the book or show is basically how to guide To veganism or to plant-based eating really plant-based diet what he calls the plant-powered diet, which is pretty cool name My opinion on his diet advice is that it's it's overall pretty good I agree with most of what he says in the general gist of it Anyway, I disagree on some, you know, some details and I feel like sometimes maybe his advice isn't Exactly accurate in my opinion, but for the most part very spot-on and great advice for anyone trying to do a plant-based diet So if you're interested in that, you should definitely check the book out And of course as usual, I'll put an affiliate link in the description So if you're interested in buying the book, you can buy it there. Click the link through Amazon We'll get a little bit of a commission for sending you there, but the price remains the same for you So I'm not gonna give away, you know the story exactly what happens, but Basically, it starts out You know with his childhood he talks about his childhood talks about his teenage years University his athletic pursuits as a you know, they started as a he started as a swimmer and how this sort of morphed into Becoming a triathlete really, you know doing Ultraman and A few other crazy challenges one of them called epic five, which is just basically two guys one of them being rich role Doing five iron man distance triathlon Triathlons in in five days Well over a course of a week, but one day for each of the triathlons. That's just crazy He chronicles The those experiences very well And it's not just chronological he goes back and forth a little bit So it's an exciting story, you know, it doesn't just take you through his childhood Then his teenage years and his adulthood it goes back and forth a little bit and the common thread is that he talks about his battles with alcoholism and The psychology of addiction and how he got out of it and how he essentially found Running and cycling and of course he already loved swimming. So It's just a beautiful story. It's just a very captivating story and fascinating Guy I just find rich role to be Very sane, you know, he's very sane like when I listen to his podcast. I just feel Soothed, you know, it suits my my soul. I feel like oh, he's he's a balanced guy, you know and Positive and and real and that's something I really appreciate So because this is a running channel I'm Recommending it to you because you're probably a runner and I think it will inspire you to To in terms of like especially if you're an older runner like me Not really old. I'm 34, but you know, I mean like in the in the scheme of like Athletics, I'm pretty old and rich of course Has done some amazing things in his 40s You know, rejecting middle age is one of the premises of the book sort of and it just gives me Hope and inspiration that you know age Well, it's a factor, but you can still do a lot of awesome things as you get older and Actually, that's not even relevant. It's it's all about the journey. It's all about the journey in my opinion So if you want to read a book about a journey Some crazy birds around here if you want to read a book about a journey This is this is the one you should get easy to read well written Inspiring just inspiring so check it out. As I said, there's a link in the description Fill it link click that link if you want to buy it by the book or buy anything else for that matter You just click that link and anything you buy on Amazon Will get a commission so even if you want to support the loan trail project In any way, you could just buy your stuff on Amazon by first going through one of these affiliate links. That would be awesome Anyway, that's it for today. Check out some of our other book reviews. I'll put a link somewhere here The Sun is just coming out. I'm heading to the market to buy my food for the week here on La Palma epic sweet potatoes and bananas and all kinds of other awesome things Thanks for watching. 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