title: Anywhere But Home: Adventures in Endurance
author:  Anu Vaidyanathan 
description: ANU VAIDYANATHAN is the founder of PatNMarks, an intellectual property consulting firm. Anu received her PhD in electrical engineering at UC Canterbury, setting the department and university record in twenty-six months. She has been teaching courses in computer architecture, innovation and business policy at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Anu is a regular speaker at forums on entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership. She is also an endurance athlete representing India in long-course triathlon. She became the first Asian female to have competed in the Ultraman Canada triathlon, comprising a 10-km swim, a 420-km bike ride and an 84.4-km run. She backed this up with Ironman Canada comprising a 3.8-km swim, a 180-km bike ride and a 42.2-km run, four weeks later.
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  **DEDICATION**
  
   **FOR JENN**
  
   **EPIGRAPH**
  
   _Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats._
  
   **PETER SLOTERDIJK**
  
   **CONTENTS**
  
    1. Dedication
    2. Epigraph
    3.   4. Prologue
    5.  **INTODUCTION** Into the New Frontier
    6.  **CHAPTER 1** The Inner Statue
    7.  **CHAPTER 2** But Is It Good for You?
    8.  **CHAPTER 3** Feeling, Breathing, Going to War
    9.  **CHAPTER 4** Bodyweight Politics
    10.  **CHAPTER 5** Hercules and the Athletic Renaissance
    11.  **CHAPTER 6** Training for the Mirror
    12.  **CHAPTER 7** Acrobats and Beefcake
    13.  **CHAPTER 8** The Tyranny of the Wheel
    14.  **CHAPTER 9** From Women’s Work to the Women’s Movement
    15.  **CHAPTER 10** Practicing at Life
    16. Acknowledgments
    17. General Notes on Sources
    18. Bibliography
    19. Index
    20. About the Author
    21. Credits
    22. Copyright
    23. About the Publisher
  
   **PROLOGUE**
  
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