Heather Dawe is one of the UK's leading endurance athletes, having competed and won at Elite level in many mountain marathons, such as the LAMM and the OMM. She holds the female record for the Old County Tops fell race in the Lake District, won the Helvellyn triathlon in 2007, and has run the Bob Graham Round in under 22 hours. She has finished first female in the Fred Whitton Challenge twice, and in 2008 won the renowned Three Peaks Cyclo-cross. Spending her childhood in Bristol, she has lived in West Yorkshire since she was 18. She spends her days working as a statistician and systems architect in Leeds and lives with her partner and their young daughter. She is also a talented artist – visit www.heatherdawe.co.uk to see her artwork.

'Dawe’s prose is engaged, matter-of-fact and joyful, celebrating how a love of mountains can become a deep and engrained part of anyone’s everyday life.' Helen Mort, Climb Magazine

• Foreword By Al Powell Prologue Finished Business Introduction The Start Point PART 1 Rise and Fall One Fitting In Two Mountain Marathon 1 Three Sea Cliffs Four Mountain Marathon 2 Five Car Crash PART 2 LEARNING Six Mountain Marathon 3 Seven Calderdale Eight Running Nine Mountain Marathon 4 Ten Morning Ride Eleven Mountain Marathon 5 Twelve Ventoux Thirteen Mountain Marathon 6 PART 3 Tour Divide Fourteen PerfectionFifteen Preparation Sixteen Tour Divide Seventeen Going Home Epilogue Chevin AcknowledgementsBibliography

Heather Dawe is one of the UK's leading endurance athletes, having competed and won at Elite level in many mountain marathons, such as the LAMM and the OMM. She holds the female record for the Old County Tops fell race in the Lake District, won the Helvellyn triathlon in 2007, and has run the Bob Graham Round in under 22 hours. She has finished first female in the Fred Whitton Challenge twice, and in 2008 won the renowned Three Peaks Cyclo-cross. Spending her childhood in Bristol, she has lived in West Yorkshire since she was 18. She spends her days working as a statistician and systems architect in Leeds and lives with her partner and their young daughter. She is also a talented artist – visit www.heatherdawe.co.uk to see her artwork.

'Dawe’s prose is engaged, matter-of-fact and joyful, celebrating how a love of mountains can become a deep and engrained part of anyone’s everyday life.' Helen Mort, Climb Magazine

• Foreword By Al Powell Prologue Finished Business Introduction The Start Point PART 1 Rise and Fall One Fitting In Two Mountain Marathon 1 Three Sea Cliffs Four Mountain Marathon 2 Five Car Crash PART 2 LEARNING Six Mountain Marathon 3 Seven Calderdale Eight Running Nine Mountain Marathon 4 Ten Morning Ride Eleven Mountain Marathon 5 Twelve Ventoux Thirteen Mountain Marathon 6 PART 3 Tour Divide Fourteen PerfectionFifteen Preparation Sixteen Tour Divide Seventeen Going Home Epilogue Chevin AcknowledgementsBibliography

Heather Dawe is one of the UK's leading endurance athletes, having competed and won at Elite level in many mountain marathons, such as the LAMM and the OMM. She holds the female record for the Old County Tops fell race in the Lake District, won the Helvellyn triathlon in 2007, and has run the Bob Graham Round in under 22 hours. She has finished first female in the Fred Whitton Challenge twice, and in 2008 won the renowned Three Peaks Cyclo-cross. Spending her childhood in Bristol, she has lived in West Yorkshire since she was 18. She spends her days working as a statistician and systems architect in Leeds and lives with her partner and their young daughter. She is also a talented artist – visit www.heatherdawe.co.uk to see her artwork.

'Dawe’s prose is engaged, matter-of-fact and joyful, celebrating how a love of mountains can become a deep and engrained part of anyone’s everyday life.' Helen Mort, Climb Magazine

• Foreword By Al Powell Prologue Finished Business Introduction The Start Point PART 1 Rise and Fall One Fitting In Two Mountain Marathon 1 Three Sea Cliffs Four Mountain Marathon 2 Five Car Crash PART 2 LEARNING Six Mountain Marathon 3 Seven Calderdale Eight Running Nine Mountain Marathon 4 Ten Morning Ride Eleven Mountain Marathon 5 Twelve Ventoux Thirteen Mountain Marathon 6 PART 3 Tour Divide Fourteen PerfectionFifteen Preparation Sixteen Tour Divide Seventeen Going Home Epilogue Chevin AcknowledgementsBibliography