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adventure
ALA
American Lung Association
Author_Eloise Hanner
baby boomers
bicycle
bicycle odyssey
Big Ride
bike riding
biking
businesswoman
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coast-to-coast
cross country bike ride
cross country cyclist
cross country ride
cross-country cycling
cycling
cyclist
Eloise Hanner
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first big ride
life change
mid-life crisis
new beginnings
noncyclist
sports autobiography
travel book
travelogue
woman's journey
Product details
- ISBN 9781581821444
- Weight: 326g
- Dimensions: 131 x 201mm
- Publication Date: 05 Oct 2000
- Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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An Inspiration for Anyone Who Wonders If the Time for Adventure Has Passed
This is the story of a middle-aged businesswoman who left a successful career to see if she could find something more meaningful to do with her life. A noncyclist, Eloise Hanner joined the first Big Ride (sponsored by the American Lung Association), in which more than seven hundred bicycle riders crossed the country from Seattle to Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1998. To Hanner, the ride represented a new beginning fraught with challenges and opportunities.
Starting from zero, she trained for several months to work up to where she could ride and average of more than eighty miles a day. What started as a bicycle odyssey, however, developed into a distilled version of life, where storms became life-threatening and strong friendships formed in days instead of weeks or months.
More than a travelogue, Hanner's account of the inaugural Big Ride is an examination of career and values and what to do with the second half of life—a question asked by many baby boomers as they approach fifty.
Eloise Hanner was raised in the small town of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. After several years of working in Afghanistan and Kuwait, she was a stockbroker in San Diego for fifteen years. Hanner and her husband, Chuck, currently live and work in Paraguay.
