商品簡介
In 1971, John Pendergrass was seated in the back of an F-4 Phantom, racing across the skies of Vietnam as a United States Air Force flight surgeon. Forty-five years later, Pendergrass boards an altogether different type of airplane and heads to Vietnam for an altogether different kind of race. A veteran of IRONMAN triathlons on every inhabited continent, Racing Back to Vietnam follows Pendergrass as he returns to Vietnam in more ways than one--revisiting a country that, for him, is bound up in a complicated mess of memory and emotion.
作者簡介
Dr. John Pendergrass is an eye surgeon, decorated Vietnam veteran, and six-time Ironman triathlon competitor. As a native Mississippian, he graduated from Delta State College and then earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Mississippi. Pendergrass is the first person over 60 to ever compete in six Ironman triathlons on six continents. In a quest to complete the 2.4-mile open-water swim, 112-mile bike race, and 26.2-mile run, he has traveled to Brazil, Switzerland, South Africa, New Zealand, Arizona, and China. The Road Runners Club of America once named him the top running club president in the USA. Pendergrass has written extensively about fitness for newspapers. He also frequently contributes to the Keynoter Magazine. Pendergrass is married with three children and has practiced ophthalmology in Hattiesburg, MS for over 36 years. He has served as president of his state ophthalmologic society and on the board of medical licensure. His is the author of Against the Odds.
