Iron Heart

While reading the current issue of TrailRunner magazine, I came across a wonderful article about Brian Boyle. Brian was driving home from swim practice in 2004, when he was in a car crash. He was flown to a shock-trauma hospital and he had lost sixty percent of his blood, his heart moved across his chest, his organs and pelvis were pulverized and was placed in a medically-induced coma. After all that happened to Brian, he ended up making a comeback. Three and a half years after his crash, Brian was an Ironman finisher in Kona, Hawaii.

In the article Boyle said that since he finished an Ironman, why not try ultra running? Boyle finished the JFK 50 Mile last November in 9:50. This coming July, Boyle will be taking on a 100 mile trail race.

If that isn't an amazing story, I don't know what is. Brian wrote a book about this experience. The book is called Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead. I ordered the book online over the weekend. I can't wait to read it.