Both Feet on the Ground: Reflections from the Outside

by Marshall Ulrich

Overview

You’re stressed, tired of answering the beeps on your phone and computer. Your kids get too much screen time. You don’t know where your next meal was grown or raised. One of the best forms of therapy is simple: get out and stay out—as often and for as long as you can.

In Both Feet on the Ground, Marshall Ulrich champions “disconnecting to reconnect,” urging you to spend time unplugged, eat food whose origins you understand, and push yourself to try something bold and personally compelling. He takes you back to bailing hay on the dairy farm of his youth, gasping for air at the top of Mount Everest, running through the searing heat of the Gobi desert, and riding the crest of huge ocean waves off Morocco.

He’s learned that physical connections to the natural world are vital to health of body and soul. That only these outdoor experiences will put you through trials by fire, cleanse you in water, take your breath away, and ground you to the earth. Your adventures in natural places—from walking in the park or camping, to the more extreme isolation of a jungle or remote river—can put you back in touch with who you are; how resilient, resourceful, and hardy you can be.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950349029
Publisher:	Dreams in Action
Publication date:	07/22/2019
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Marshall Ulrich has appeared on ESPN, the Discovery Channel, ABC's Wide World of Sports, Dateline NBC, the Today show and the National Geographic Channel. He has been featured in Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times, among others. His articles have appeared in Adventure Sports, Trail Runner, and Marathon & Beyond. He is a highly sought-after trainer and speaker as well as a record-breaking athlete. He lives in Idaho Springs, Colorado.

Editorial Reviews

• “An athlete of astonishing grit…but there is also a bit of Everyman in Marsh.” —Mark Burnett, Emmy-award-winning producer of Survivor, The Voice, Shark Tank, and more
• “One of America’s greatest living adventurers and expert without peer in human endurance.” —Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run

• “[The] guy who has long been the ultra-runner’s ultra-runner; the toughest, craziest, long-distance athlete of his generation, who for nearly three decades has let his actions do the talking.”—Nick Galvin, Sydney Morning Herald

• “...what you have achieved...running the Badwater Quad, Badwater, Western-States, Leadville, and summiting the Seven Summits, needed that gritty dogma and stubbornness that is in you.” —Ian Corless, Runultra UK

• “The sport’s [ultrarunning] figurehead in this country is Marshall Ulrich.”—Florence Williams, Outside on-line

• “Marshall’s example is one that reminds us all once again that endurance really is an attitude!”—Endurance Magazine

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