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Sarah Reinertsen was born with a congenital birth defect. At the age of seven, her leg was amputated. At the age of thirteen, she broke the 100-meter world record for female above-the-knee amputees. At the age of thirty, she became the first female leg amputee to complete the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. A year later, in CBS's reality television show The Amazing Race 10, she scaled the Great Wall of China. This book tells her story.
Touching, funny, and honest, In a Single Bound is about a feisty little girl from Long Island who became one of the world's most famous disabled sports figures. But it is also a gripping memoir of inner strength-about a one-legged child trying to fit in with her two-legged friends and a woman who dared to fear less and live more.
Introduction VII
Chapter 1 Part Girl, Part Machine 1
Chapter 2 Becoming a Champion 37
Chapter 3 Even the Best Runners Can't Run Away 68
Chapter 4 Jump at the Chance 100
Chapter 5 Always Tri 124
Chapter 6 I'mua 148
Chapter 7 My Amazing Race 170
Chapter 8 Unfinished Business 191
Epilogue 215
Sarah Reinertsen's Racing Career 223
Acknowledgments 227
About the Authors 232
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Sarah Reinertsen was born with a congenital birth defect. At the age of seven, her leg was amputated. At the age of thirteen, she broke the 100-meter world record for female above-the-knee amputees. At the age of thirty, she became the first female leg amputee to complete the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. A year later, in CBS's reality television show The Amazing Race 10, she scaled the Great Wall of China. This book tells her story.
Touching, funny, and honest, In a Single Bound is about a feisty little girl from Long Island who became one of the world's most famous disabled sports figures. But it is also a gripping memoir of inner ...