From Addict to IronMan

Todd Crandell

190 pages

Rating- 7 of 10

This book is about the life of Todd Crandell. It starts with him being a child and being a hockey prodigy. He starts off on a local team, where people realize he is one of the best goalies they have seen. He then moves to a private school, and becomes even better. Then in high school, while being scouted by college teams, he starts drinking. Him and his friends start partying every weekend, and they think everything is fine. But soon Todd starts drinking on school nights, and doing cocaine. It just gets worse and worse. He starts doing cocaine before games, and drinking every night. His friends don't see what is happening, because he's good at hiding it. He soon gets kicked out of school, and off the team for doing coke in the bathroom.

Todd moves from friends house to friends house, trying to find someone to put up with his crap. He moves to Miami, to Ohio, to Georgia. He finally stays back at his parents where they fight, but he finally makes a pact to stay clean. He tries his best to play hockey again, but he has to face the fact that he is washed up. To stay in shape he starts biking. Then he starts racing bikes, and running marathons. Soon he is doing big competitions and is a part of his community. His life goal is to finish an IronMan triathlon. This is a 6 mile swim, 26 mile run, and 112 mile bike ride. He struggles, and can't finish his first few tries. But then he finally finishes one.. and another... and another. He now runs a drug abuse community marathon organization, and has a happy family.