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40 DAYS: Life, Love, Loss and A Historic Run Around One of the World's Largest Lakes Kindle Edition

by Steven Cannon (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
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Praise For 40 Days:



"A fantastic adventure the whole way." - B. D. M.
"Ruined my day. Couldn't put it down. I love a story of someone setting an unimaginable goal and then following along with them on the struggles along the way." - A.B.
"Such an inspiring story and accomplishment. A+" - W.G.

A Marathon A Day...Everyday



The first crazy idea was to run across Iowa. He did it in 11 Days.

Now what?

Lake Michigan called. Nobody had ever run around her beautiful shores. Steve wanted to be the first.

40 Days is a brutally honest and inspiring story about Steve's historic 40 day, 1037 mile run around Lake Michigan.

You'll get drawn into his daily account of the challenges both, mental and physical, that did their best to stop him from completing his historic lap. An amazing story of what can happen when you push yourself farther than you ever thought was possible.

If you love adventure then this story will be for you because everyone loves seeing someone test their limits.

Pick up your copy now to begin the adventure.
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  4. Publication date
    December 7, 2015
  5. Reading age
    16 - 18 years
  6. Grade level
    6 - 12
  7. File size
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‟If you live in our wonderful state of Iowa, the chances are that you have heard of Steve Cannon. His adventures have helped raise nearly a million dollars for those in the cancer fight. He is our marathon man. His book, 40 Days, is an inspiring, at times funny, and at times heartbreaking read." --Iowa Governor Terry Branstad and Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds

‟Steve Cannon sums up many things about life, learning, dreams, adversity, love and finding our place in this world that we can call home with his 40-day, 1,037-mile run around Lake Michigan. I could not put the book down once I started to read it." --Lisa Smith-Batchen, Dreamchaser Foundation, 2x Badwater Champion and only American to win the Marathon Des Sable

‟Steve Cannon's 40 Days is more than just a gripping account of his remarkable journey around Lake Michigan on foot; it is a story of love, compassion, and loss and, finally, of the strength of the human spirit that allows all of us to accomplish great things, if only we believe we can." --Marshall Ulrich, Mountaineer, Adventure Racer, Ultra-marathon Runner, and Author of Running on Empty

About the Author

Steve Cannon runs. He fat bikes, kayaks, and skis. He wouldn't call himself a runner, biker, kayaker, or skier, however. He would most likely refer to himself as an adventurer. In 2018, Steve completed his greatest challenge to date: The Iditarod Trail Invitational 350 in Alaska--one of the top ten extreme ultra-endurance races in the world. He has run nearly 100 marathons and has taken on the worldʼs longest kayak race: The Yukon River Quest. This adventure would become the story for Steveʼs second book Upside Down in the Yukon River (2018). His adventures have raised nearly $700,000 for Livestrong, Camp Kesem, and Above and Beyond Cancer.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0192UOWFC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brian Meeks ecocandleriel@gmail.com (December 7, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4509 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1942810059
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings

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Author, Adventurer, Keynote Speaker

Steve Cannon runs. He fat bikes, kayaks, and skis. We doubt he would call himself a runner, biker, kayaker, or skier, however. He would most likely refer to himself as an adventurer. In 2018, Steve completed his greatest challenge to date: The Iditarod Trail Invitational 350 in Alaska—one of the top ten extreme ultra-endurance races in the world.

He has completed the Tuscobia Winter Ultra 150 twice on his fat bike. He has three Arrowhead Ultra 135 finishes and in 2018 did so “unsupported,” meaning all food and water had to be carried start to finish. In 2016, Steve earned induction into the Order of the Hrimthurs, the Triple Crown for winter ultra-endurance athletes.

He has run nearly 100 marathons and has taken on the worldʼs longest kayak race: The Yukon River Quest. This adventure would become the story for Steveʼs second book Upside Down in the Yukon River (2018).

In 2004, he rode his bike to the starting line of the Deadwood Mickelson Trail Marathon in South Dakota—beginning in Iowa—before running the marathon. He has completed over twenty Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI), five Ride-the-Rockies, and made it five times through the Dirty Kanza 200, the world’s premier gravel cycling race, earning a coveted “1000 Miles of Kanza” goblet in 2017.

He ran the 292 miles across his home state of Iowa in eleven days and is the first person ever to run around the Lake Michigan, logging 1,037 miles in forty days—averaging a marathon’s distance per day. This adventure and its lessons became his first book 40 Days: Life, Love, Loss and A Historic Run Around One of the World’s Largest Lakes (2015).

His adventures have raised nearly $700,000 for Livestrong, Camp Kesem, and Above and Beyond Cancer.

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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197 global ratings
This is a heart and soul book that is so elequintly penned to paper.
5 Stars
This is a heart and soul book that is so elequintly penned to paper.
I was placing a order online and needed to add another item to receive free shipping. I noticed the 40 Year Old Virgin movie starring Steve Carell. Adding this item allowed for free shipping. My packaged arrived and thought popcorn and a movie would make for a relaxing night. With a bowl of popcorn ready to be devoured. I open my new movie only to find a book. Maybe the DVD is in the book. I shook the book like a dirty martini in the making. But no DVD to be found. I wear cheaters, aka reading glasses and didn't have them on. So after a closer look with cheaters to aide in my investigation, it became clear that the title of the book is 40 Days and the author is Steven Cannon. Now I sit with a bowl of popcorn, a book, my cheaters and no movie. Not one to let a good bowl of popcorn go to waist. I concluded that I would read this book as if it's a movie with subtitles. Please note I am not much of a reader and slow at that. I usually wait for it to come out on video. 40 Days may appear to be a book about a man, Steven Cannon who runs around one of the largest lakes in the world, Lake Michigan in 40 days. It's more than that. Lake Michigan is the stage and the forty days are the different acts in the play and Steve is the narrator of a journey of the soul. As I read page 1 that soon became day 1 aka chapter 1 as this book is divided by days of running, I soon felt I was there also. Steven has a way with words. His honest thoughts and sincere feelings were so elequintly penned to paper. I would say this book is a easy read. It is a easy read and it isn't. I cried real tears while reading this book. I will never forget Jaime or Uncle Mike, just to name a few people who I will never have the privilege of meeting. Steve so honored these people's lives that they were able to touch my heart. This book isn't about heartache or about accomplishments. It's about how one man's soul set out to dig deep and find his own namaste. When your last day is done, make sure the movie that passes before your eyes is worth watching...Steve CannonI wonder when this book becomes a movie if Steve Carell will be the lead actor.TamaraFormer race runnerCurrent fat bike roadieAnd the sexy hot tutu chick[...]
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a heart and soul book that is so elequintly penned to paper.
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2016
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I was placing a order online and needed to add another item to receive free shipping. I noticed the 40 Year Old Virgin movie starring Steve Carell. Adding this item allowed for free shipping. My packaged arrived and thought popcorn and a movie would make for a relaxing night. With a bowl of popcorn ready to be devoured. I open my new movie only to find a book. Maybe the DVD is in the book. I shook the book like a dirty martini in the making. But no DVD to be found. I wear cheaters, aka reading glasses and didn't have them on. So after a closer look with cheaters to aide in my investigation, it became clear that the title of the book is 40 Days and the author is Steven Cannon. Now I sit with a bowl of popcorn, a book, my cheaters and no movie. Not one to let a good bowl of popcorn go to waist. I concluded that I would read this book as if it's a movie with subtitles. Please note I am not much of a reader and slow at that. I usually wait for it to come out on video. 40 Days may appear to be a book about a man, Steven Cannon who runs around one of the largest lakes in the world, Lake Michigan in 40 days. It's more than that. Lake Michigan is the stage and the forty days are the different acts in the play and Steve is the narrator of a journey of the soul. As I read page 1 that soon became day 1 aka chapter 1 as this book is divided by days of running, I soon felt I was there also. Steven has a way with words. His honest thoughts and sincere feelings were so elequintly penned to paper. I would say this book is a easy read. It is a easy read and it isn't. I cried real tears while reading this book. I will never forget Jaime or Uncle Mike, just to name a few people who I will never have the privilege of meeting. Steve so honored these people's lives that they were able to touch my heart. This book isn't about heartache or about accomplishments. It's about how one man's soul set out to dig deep and find his own namaste. When your last day is done, make sure the movie that passes before your eyes is worth watching...Steve Cannon
I wonder when this book becomes a movie if Steve Carell will be the lead actor.

Tamara
Former race runner
Current fat bike roadie
And the sexy hot tutu chick

[...]
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a heart and soul book that is so elequintly penned to paper.
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2016
I was placing a order online and needed to add another item to receive free shipping. I noticed the 40 Year Old Virgin movie starring Steve Carell. Adding this item allowed for free shipping. My packaged arrived and thought popcorn and a movie would make for a relaxing night. With a bowl of popcorn ready to be devoured. I open my new movie only to find a book. Maybe the DVD is in the book. I shook the book like a dirty martini in the making. But no DVD to be found. I wear cheaters, aka reading glasses and didn't have them on. So after a closer look with cheaters to aide in my investigation, it became clear that the title of the book is 40 Days and the author is Steven Cannon. Now I sit with a bowl of popcorn, a book, my cheaters and no movie. Not one to let a good bowl of popcorn go to waist. I concluded that I would read this book as if it's a movie with subtitles. Please note I am not much of a reader and slow at that. I usually wait for it to come out on video. 40 Days may appear to be a book about a man, Steven Cannon who runs around one of the largest lakes in the world, Lake Michigan in 40 days. It's more than that. Lake Michigan is the stage and the forty days are the different acts in the play and Steve is the narrator of a journey of the soul. As I read page 1 that soon became day 1 aka chapter 1 as this book is divided by days of running, I soon felt I was there also. Steven has a way with words. His honest thoughts and sincere feelings were so elequintly penned to paper. I would say this book is a easy read. It is a easy read and it isn't. I cried real tears while reading this book. I will never forget Jaime or Uncle Mike, just to name a few people who I will never have the privilege of meeting. Steve so honored these people's lives that they were able to touch my heart. This book isn't about heartache or about accomplishments. It's about how one man's soul set out to dig deep and find his own namaste. When your last day is done, make sure the movie that passes before your eyes is worth watching...Steve Cannon
I wonder when this book becomes a movie if Steve Carell will be the lead actor.

Tamara
Former race runner
Current fat bike roadie
And the sexy hot tutu chick

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4.0 out of 5 stars 40 Days Living in Steven Cannon's Soul
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2016
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Intriguing stories of athletic endurance stir my imagination like no others. Steve Cannon's chronicle of his infamous 40-day Lake Michigan tour on foot fits that bill to a "T," as in triumphant. His prescription for such an outlandish idea lies in the runner's creed of "run, eat, rest." That formula keys the lock for success. A larger view, though, rests in his psyche . . . the mental strength to overcome the mind's push to get one to quit. The brain supposedly helps in saving yourself from self-inspired pain by giving reasons to go ahead, quit; give-up, it's okay . . . you'll feel so much better, it's alright, stop. Yeah, stop.
Instead of acting as a cheerleader, the noggin becomes your enemy. Try as you will to self-motivate, suddenly your most important organ acts as an enemy to a goal. When he can't get the "rest" part of the formula in because of a faulty air conditioner failing on a steamy hot night, the opportunity for frustration to overwhelm the goal becomes real. Instead, his inner strength steps up and provides the solution with these words: "Accept it and move on." Much easier to read or write than do, such phrases provide not only an extreme endurance athlete such as Cannon with the strength to move on, those same phrases offer the power for the remainder of us living our own lives to struggle on, take the punches life gives by accepting them and continuing on.
The book offers such lessons throughout, providing the more normal among us to add to our own arsenal of inner strength. As the author writes, "When we adventure our soul screams with pleasure." Thankfully our soul, the unofficial organ of spirit and fortitude, accepts training so we can exclaim the joy of these distances. Mine may be far less in duration, but in the same genre. Learning from Cannon adds to one's soul training. The value of his experience falls on his experience on each of those grueling 1037 miles. If you look hard enough, there are probably that same number of lessons within these pages.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Insparation
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What an absolutely amazing thing to be able to run for so many days. It inspires me to see such fortitude and strength.
Pat yourself on your back Steve, you did good
I'm an Ovarian cancer survivor, fought very hard to get better. Was in a coma and on a ventilator for over 2 weeks. It wasn't my time to die. I had to live so I could take care of my husband when he got Prostate cancer. He lived 6 /1/2.
Power of the mind beats all obstacles.
Wonderful book
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5.0 out of 5 stars TOM SAWYER LIFE ADVENTURE STORY TELLING
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2016
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I have read a lot of running books and people who have shared their story about a goal they set and reached. Steven's writing was "REAL" not fluffed and his relationships with the people who shared in his journey you felt like you knew them somehow. The feelings he shared the running world knows oh so well. I have run many races with people, by myself, and Steven - okay I'm going to refer to him as Steve because Steven just doesn't seem to fit his personality - shared the balance and the need for solo runs and when you need the company. I could have finished this book faster than I did but I didn't want it to end. His reference to different movies - classic ones - Shawshank Redemption - ripping off his shirt just made me smile and left an impression. Reading a book for me has to leave an impression and this definitely left one. I am coming on the anniversary of my mother-in-law's passing. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer April 12 - passed away on April 20. I lost another friend to pancreatic cancer - my childhood friend of 35 years was diagnosed in January 2008 passed away in September - that was a hard one to watch. Cancer Sucks and the picture Steve had in the book that described his feelings says it all. Thank you, Steve for sharing this journey and for encouraging people. Timing was everything for me with this book. GREAT book - a MUST READ - and I cannot wait to hear of his other antics with Laughy, Paco, and the Grey Ghost. Steve you remind me of a Tom Sawyer of the century :) Oh and by the way GO CYCLONES!!!
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