When a registration error signed him up for an Ironman three days before the race, Dr Finbar McGrady had a choice: react with fear and pull out, or respond with curiosity and show up.
 
He chose to respond.
 
This wasn't just about 140.6 miles of swimming, cycling, and running. It was about everything that had brought him to that starting line, a childhood spent struggling with social anxiety, fifteen years of letting his health slip away, a transformative year in Australia that changed everything, and the grief that broke him open in ways he never expected.
Accidental Ironman is the story of a quiet Irish boy who became an elite triathlete, a GP who learned more from his patients than his textbooks, and a man who discovered that the space between stimulus and response is where life is actually lived.
Part memoir, part manifesto, this is a book about what happens when we stop reacting to life and start responding to it. It's about the difference between being pushed around by circumstances and choosing how we engage with them. It's about learning that you don't have to be the best, you just have to keep showing up.
You don't need to want to do an Ironman to read this book. You just need to be curious about who you are when life doesn't go to plan.
Because that's where transformation begins.