Flying Pig winner tells her story of triumph and tragedy in “My Race for Life”

Cincinnati native and UC medical school graduate Alison Bedingfield Delgado, the 2005 winner of the Flying Pig Marathon, is the author of a new book, “My Race for Life: Finding New Strength After Tragedy.”

The book chronicles her win at the Flying Pig as well as her near-fatal accident years later when a car hit her bicycle, leaving her with broken bones and head injuries. Alison had to come back not once, but twice, from severe brain trauma to return to medical school and miraculously, return to running.

Her story has been told by ESPN and Runners World, among others, but this is the first time Alison has written about her journey herself. The book will be released in April.

Cincinnati People visited Alison at her pediatric clinic in Park City, Utah, where she talked about what winning the Flying Pig Marathon meant to her: