Steve Gurney Lucky Legs What I've learned about winning & losing.

Winning a record-setting nine Coast to Coasts: running, kayaking and biking the length of New Zealand,; competing in the world mountain bike champs; adventure tacing in far-flung coungries, through jungles, up mountains and across deserts- you'd think Steve Gurney was a naturally gifted athlete. But in fact he was always last in school races.
So how did he become the winningest man in NZ multisport? What drove a boy with lucky legs-"so scrawny, lucky they dn't snap off and poke up my bum!"- to perform so highly, at the limits of endurance, for all those years? And how did he become so innovative, survive a near-death experience after getting leptospirosis, deal with depression, reinvent himself and come to terms with who he is today?
Full of great yarns, "Lucky Legs" is also a brilliant guide to winning -and sometimes losing. Steve is so determined to win that he's searched everywhere for advantages, learnt new techniques, trained harder and more thoroughly invented new equipment, and cunningly outmanoevred the competition on race days. Here he generously shares his strategies for success that can be used by anyone, in any field-be it sport or business.

Format: Softback - Good used condition

Publisher: A Random House New Zealand 

Published: 2008

ISBN: 9781869790608