Bored with workouts? New Year’s fitness goals lagging? This Wichitan’s book may help.

Think you have to be somewhere with oceans or mountains to be adventurous?

Wichita author Jennifer Strong McConachie says you don’t, and she has a new book to prove it.

“Hey, you don’t have to be born in California or Colorado to be really cool,” she said.

Her “Go Multisport: Add Fun, Challenge and Exploration to Your World,” is a follow to her 2021 book “Go Far: How Endurance Sports Help You Win At Life.”

That first book was more about how endurance sports can be applied to everyday situations and business.

The new book is more focused on sports and how to diversify and re-energize your workouts.

“It is a story for everyone who is remotely curious in finding more ways to explore,” McConachie said.

Penguin Random House is the publisher for both books.

McConachie said going through a publisher instead of self-publishing, “might be more time consuming or more involved, but I have a global reach.”

Though her book is for anyone anywhere, McConachie said part of her goal is to show how great the Midwest can be for multiple endurance sports. She said so many voices in the endurance community seem to come from the coasts or mountain towns.

“I’m trying to encourage people to go out, be active and find the adventure around them.”

‘Our generation’s thing’

Multisports are two or more human-powered activities put together.

McConachie has had years of experience and a lot of amazing opportunities globally, but the roots of it all are firmly in Wichita.

As a child, she did local 5K races and the Wichita River Festival’s River Run.

“That was kind of one of our family hobbies.”

She began doing triathlons and IronKids competitions at age 7.

“I’m kind of lucky that was our generation’s thing,” McConachie said.

Her parents along with her friends’ parents also raced.

“It was kind of a unique but special way to grow up.”

McConachie lived near the Arkansas River and would watch the Frostbite Regatta rowing competition. It inspired her to be a walk-on for K-State’s Division 1 rowing team.

“It was a really cool experience — a really cool way to be a part of collegiate sports.”

At school, McConachie majored in mass communications and public relations. She said it never occurred to her that she could make some sort of career out of sports.

However, through her more than two decades with the Nye and Associates marketing firm, McConachie has written in a lot of different mediums for others.

“I decided, well, I can write a book.”

She had decades of competitive running and swimming — her favorite — stories to share from marathons, ultra runs and travel for competitions such as the Escape from Alcatraz swim and the Hellespont swim that Lord Byron helped make famous.

In both books, McConachie shares her travel experiences and notes that when you’re traveling for endurance sports, it’s not about going somewhere simply to run your best race. There is culture and food to consider, too, “sort of like having that global citizen approach.”

‘Not a sports person’

Though endurance athletes can learn from her new book — like, what do you do after you reach the pinnacle of a sport? — McConachie said she wants to make sure others know she’s not writing for an elite athletic audience.

She’s “helping people see the world through endurance sports . . . even if they’re not a sports person.”

McConachie, who described herself as “super Type A,” also discusses the 24-hour clock and how to look at your time differently.

While her first book was more inspirational, this one “really is more of a niche.” It’s kind of a guidebook that she thinks is lacking in the marketplace.

“What can we do on a local level to try to push ourselves and do these really hard challenges?” McConachie said.

“You can make your own events.”

For instance, she created a run-ride-row course for herself from the center of Wichita to the Oklahoma border. She alternated running, kayaking and bicycling the entire way.

“That was a 12-hour adventure.”

If that sounds too extreme, McConachie said more beginning athletes could do something like walk to their gyms and then swim once they get there.

Even though McConachie has two small children, she regularly finds new adventures and is starting to include her kids as well.

An Eagle photographer was out looking for photos to depict how cold it’s been and happened to catch McConachie and her husband, Parker — sans kids — skating on the iced-over Arkansas River.

“Go Multisport” goes on sale Jan. 30. McConachie will have a 1 p.m. signing at Watermark Books & Cafe on Feb. 3.

The book shares tips for, say, living in Kansas but preparing for a run in Africa, but McConachie said she shows a lot of ways to do things on a more basic level.

“I have some ideas for sure,” she said.

“It’s really about just exploring your own backyard wherever you are.”