An inspiring memoir about a father and son entering World's Toughest
Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji despite one of them battling Alzheimer's.
"Travis and Mace have touched a generation of families around the world
with their courage, resilience and kindness."
*--*Bear Grylls, star of Man vs. Wild and host of World's Toughest
Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji
"Watching Mark and Travis Macy compete together for Eco-Challenge Fiji
was a true inspiration. Travis's selfless act of taking his father on
what may be his last race is a story that anyone can relate to and what
we need more of these days."
--Mark Burnett, chairman of MGM Worldwide Television Group; creator and
producer of Survivor, The Apprentice, and World's Toughest Race:
Eco-Challenge Fiji
In October 2018, Mark "Mace" Macy, sixty-four years old, was diagnosed
with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Mace had spent thirty years
competing in Colorado and around the world in ultra-endurance
competitions and is one of the few people who have finished all eight
Eco-Challenge events. Once diagnosed, Mace feared losing endurance,
strength, and independence.
Mace's son Travis, also a professional endurance athlete, also struggled
to see his father battling the disease. In 2019 they decided to
participate in World's Toughest Race--a seven-day, grueling 400-mile
marathon of trekking, climbing, biking, and paddling through the
jungle--for one final race together.
Weaving excerpts from Mace's passionate personal journals alongside a
first-person narrative by Travis, A Mile at a Time tells the story of
this incredible journey and what both father and son learned along the
way.
A powerful story about living--and thriving--with a disease that impacts
nearly six million Americans. This timely, and deeply moving father-son
adventure sheds light on the hard truths of this disease while giving
readers hope of all that still can be achieved.
