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Adventures in Mind - A personal obsession with the mountains (Paperback)
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Adventures in Mind - A personal obsession with the mountains (Paperback)
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'The last descent and I can't let myself think it's in the bag.
Anything could happen, take it easy, take no risks. Just get to the
finish and win.' 'The challenge and anticipation that pushes me to
try harder. The obsessive urge to achieve. It's not all about
winning. Why do I do it?' Growing up in Bristol, Heather Dawe was
17 when she started running. Having fallen in to the teenage trap
of smoking and drinking she resolved to do something about it, not
knowing then where it would take her. A climber since her youth, an
obsession with wild places and the mountains was engrained in her
DNA. Moving to Leeds to study, she began to compete in fell races
and mountain marathons, joking in the pub one night that she could
race at the highest level. Being hit by a car doing over 40mph
while cycling would have ended many athletes' dreams, but Dawe's
drive pushed her even harder. Hard enough to make her pub joke a
reality, hard enough to win Elite Mountain Marathons, to win the
Three Peaks Cyclo-cross race and to complete the Bob Graham Round.
Pushing harder still, she entered the Tour Divide - racing the
2745-mile route of the Continental Divide in North America as she
to sought to discover her physical - and emotional - limits. Dawe
writes of what it takes to compete in adventure races; the
training, the sacrifice, the mistakes that must be made in order to
learn and develop. An intensely deep and personal book, Adventures
in Mind explores what drives a woman - living with her partner and
their child, working 9-5 - to push so hard and so far; into
herself, and into the wild.
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