In my book Full Time & Sub-Nine: Fitting Iron Distance Training into Everyday Life (now in ebook format!), I share the story of my athletic career, my battle with cancer and the winning strategies I used to earn my four overall wins at the Iron-distance and dozens of top ten finishes in triathlons of all distances.
Whether you’re training to win, training to finish, or just looking for an inspirational story, I hope that my book will help you train better and smarter while enjoying all of the challenges in your life. For me, triathlons help me better my life and my life helps me better my triathlons. It’s my hope that Full Time & Sub-Nine helps others find similar balance and inspiration in their own lives – with endurance sports or with any other passion you might have.
Reviews:
“Full Time & Sub-Nine is informative, inspirational and enjoyable…Glover doesn’t lecture, he shares. Highly recommended for the triathlete who has to balance high demands and expectations with a full and responsible life.”
- Jef Mallett, Triathlete, Creator of “Frazz” comic strip
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“An inspirational hero…Beating cancer and succeeding at Iron distance triathlon are incomprehensible to most, but Glover gives them down-to-earth details we can all start to understand.”
- Jedd Ferris, Senior Editor, Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine
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Author David Glover’s book Full Time & Sub-Nine: Fitting Iron Distance Training into Everyday Life is more than just an accounting about physical fitness and Iron man competitions. His battle with cancer also weigh-in on what motivates his life journey. We get a glimpse of him from childhood and his parent’s divorce, through his education at the US Naval Academy and onward to submarine duty. Of course, all his career planning is altered when he is discharged because of his cancer.
The reader will get only small pieces of his emotional state between his narratives about the races and his training programs. It is enough, however, that you can see how these races became a much greater focus in his life than even his own personal relationships. It results in break-ups and divorce. There is something inside him that continues to push him. There are personal costs for this passion to race that he may never fully realize until much latter in his life. But Glover comes across as dedicated and driven to achieve success, at least in his physical world.
The book would be a great reading experience for any runners, swimmers or bicyclists but an even better one if you are into Iron Man races. There is a wealth of knowledge about how to prepare emotionally and physically inside these pages. It is interesting to hold your interest even if you are not a runner or into sports. His story is inspiring at times and certainly entertaining.
- W. H. McDonald Jr., Founder of The American Author’s Association
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