{ "item_title" : "After The Fall", "item_author" : [" Owen Walsh "], "item_description" : "What happens when the thing you built your entire identity around is suddenly taken away?For twelve years, Owen Walsh was a runner. He trained before sunrise, chased fractions of a second, earned a college scholarship, qualified for Olympic trials, and built his life around the relentless pursuit of becoming faster.Then, in six seconds, everything changed.During an ordinary speed session, Owen's Achilles tendon ruptures. Surgery follows. Then come months of crutches, physical therapy, boredom, setbacks, fear, scar tissue, and the terrifying realization that the body can heal faster than the mind can learn to trust it again.But After the Fall is not a conventional sports comeback story.It is the story of everything that happens between the dramatic injury and the triumphant finish line that most comeback stories leave out.Owen writes honestly about the quiet after surgery, the grief of losing an athletic identity, friendships that disappear when training stops, the financial realities of competitive sport, the fear of returning to running, and the painstaking discipline of rehabilitation. Along the way, he discovers the value of visualization, patience, sleep, nutrition, small victories, supportive relationships, and the kind of progress that is almost invisible from the outside.Fourteen months after the injury, he finally returns to competitive racing.He doesn't win.And somehow, that becomes the point.After the Fall is a deeply personal sports memoir about Achilles injury recovery, athletic identity, resilience, and the long road back. It is for runners and athletes who have faced injury, for anyone rebuilding after a devastating setback, and for readers who understand that sometimes the greatest comeback isn't becoming who you were before.Because restoration means getting the old thing back.Resilience means building something stronger from what remains.If you've ever wondered whether you can find your way forward after losing the life you thought you were going to have, this is a story about what happens when you keep showing up-one ordinary day at a time.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/262/9798192627327_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "7.20", "online_price" : "7.20", "our_price" : "7.20", "club_price" : "7.20", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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