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A compulsively listenable, remarkably candid memoir from world-class ultramarathon runner Charlie Engle chronicling his globe-spanning races, his record-breaking run across the Sahara Desert, and exactly how working helped him get over drug craving and an unjust stint in national prison. After a decade-long craving to split cocaine and alcoholic beverages, Charlie Engle hit bottom with a near-fatal six-day binge that concluded in a hail of bullets. As Engle acquired sober, he considered working, which became his lifeline, his pastime, and his salvation. He commenced with marathons, so when marathons weren't much enough he commenced to defend myself against ultramarathons, races that gone for 35, 50, and sometimes hundreds of miles, traveling to some of the most unforgiving places on the planet to competition. The Matt Damon-produced documentary Jogging the Sahara implemented Engle as he led a team over a harrowing, record-breaking 4,500 mile run across the Sahara Desert, which helped raise huge amount of money for charity. Charlie's growing notoriety resulted in an investigation and a subsequent unjust conviction for home loan scams. Engle would spend 16 a few months in federal prison in Beckley, Western Virginia. While in prison he pounded the small prison track, working endlessly in circles. Soon his fellow inmates were joining him, battling to keep their spirits up in dehumanizing circumstances. In Jogging Man, Charlie Engle explains to the gripping, astonishing, funny, emotional, and inspiring report of his life, describing his setbacks and struggles - from coping with addiction to portion time in prison - and exactly how he blazed a way to freedom by adding one foot before the other. This is a propulsive, organic, and triumphant report about locating the threshold of individuals strength - and transcending it.