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Welcome. This is the WBZ Book
Club. I'm Jordan and if you're looking

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for a little inspiration at this point
in your life, here's a book you

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might want to check out. It's
called Never Too Late Inspiration, Motivation and

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Sage Advice from seven Later in Life
Athletes. The author with an appropriate name,

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is Kate Champion. The book focuses
on people quite fit and active in

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their fifty sixty, seventies and beyond. Seven Amazing Later in Life athletes talk

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about how they stay motivated, how
they recover from illness and injuries, and

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what inspires them to go forward.
There's an eighty seven year old triathlete breaking

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world records, a former couch potato
at sixty two who turned into an ultra

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runner, an endurance swimmer who at
the age of sixty seven is the oldest

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female to swim the English Channel.
Their stories are personal and touching, loaded

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with heart and energy. These people
have broken the age barrier and are not

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taking no for an answer. The
book, once again is called Never Too

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Late, Inspiration, Motivation and Sage
Advice from seven Later in Life Athletes.

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The author is Kate Champion, and
that's the book Club WBZ Boston's news radio