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S'està carregant… Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Dividede Jill Homer
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Rounded up from 4.5 stars. A very well written tale of the Ride the Divide mountain bike race from Banff, Canada to the Mexican border. ( ) An amazing journey of persistence, self-reliance, rain, mud, and Sour Patch Kids. A woman's journey on the Continental Divide Trail Race Mountain Biking from Banff, Canada to the Mexican Border. Jill does not at all see herself as any sort of hard-core athlete but she does have certain qualities in her personality that allow her to push on and enduring a level of suffering that most of us could never understand. But I was able at times to see myself in her which made this book all that more enjoyable. The sort of, If-I-Can-Do-It, Anyone-Can attitude. Not sure if that's true but it's fun to consider. Aquesta ressenya s'ha escrit per al programa Donatius de membres de LibraryThing. It is easier to give up than to success in an arduous mountain bicycle ride along the spine of the rocking mountains. The 2,740-mile trip is not for the faint hearted and not the speediest when you think about pedaling one’s self that distance. There are pictures that highlight the beauty and the obstacles author Homer faced on her 24-day record setting journey on the 2009 Tour Divide. Reader will discover the toil this type of commitment takes on the body, emotions, relationships, and of course, a petal bike. Aquesta ressenya s'ha escrit per al programa Donatius de membres de LibraryThing. I too won this one through LibraryThing. It took me awhile to read the whole thing (nothing to do with the qualities of the book, my life being a little preoccupied at the time). When I did get a chance, I enjoyed this book great deal. It is an evocative and skillfully written story of the writer's experiences travelling the expanse of the North American continental divide as part of the Tour Divide race. An insane undertaking, not something I could imagine myself or most people trying, she perseveres through undeniable physical and personal adversity, and then proceeds to write a superbly written, interesting account ot it. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Jill Homer, a newspaper editor in Alaska, has an outlandish ambition: a 2,740-mile mountain bike race from Canada to Mexico along the rugged Continental Divide. But in the tradition of best-laid plans, Jill's dream starts to unravel the minute she sets it in motion. An accident during a race on the Iditarod Trail results in serious frostbite. As she struggles with painful recovery and uncertainties about leaving a good job to pursue a seemingly impossible pipe dream, her employer hands down "an offer she can't refuse." Just two days before their departure date, her boyfriend ends their eight-year relationship. This final blow dismantles everything Jill thought she knew about life, love and her own identity."Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide" is the story of an adventure driven relentlessly forward as foundations crumble. During her record-breaking ride in the 2009 Tour Divide, Jill battles a torrent of self-doubt, anger, fatigue, loneliness, pain, grief, bicycle failures, crashes, violent storms, and hopelessness. Each night, she collapses under the crushing effort of this savage new way of life. And every morning, she picks up the pieces and strikes out anew in an ongoing journey to discover what lies on the other side of the Great Divide: astonishing beauty, unconditional kindness, and boundless strength. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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