Limitless: An Ultrarunner's Story of Pain, Perseverance and the Pursuit of Success

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Summersdale

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1787836347

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781787836341

Limitless: An Ultrarunner's Story of Pain, Perseverance and the Pursuit of Success

At the age of 55, record-breaking ultrarunner Mimi Anderson embarked on her most ambitious adventure yet. She wanted to become the fastest woman in history to run across America from Los Angeles to New York.Her journey would cover 2,850 miles, 12 states and four time zones, dealing with extreme changes in terrain, weather and altitude along the way.For 40 days, the determined mother of three pushed herself on and on for more than 2,000 miles across the vast continent, despite the onset of severe pain, until she was forced to make a crushing decision: carry on and risk never being able to run again or give up on her all-time goal....