Where There's A Will
Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent| By: | Emily Chappell |
| Publisher: | Profile Books |
| Print ISBN: | 9781788161510 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781782834915 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2019 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Non-Fiction Award 2020
'Chappell is a gifted storyteller' - Observer
In 2015 Emily Chappell embarked on a formidable new bike race: The Transcontinental. 4,000km across Europe, unassisted, in the shortest time possible.
On her first attempt she made it only halfway, waking up suddenly on her back in a field, floored by the physical and mental exertion.
A year later she entered the race again - and won.
Where There's a Will takes us into Emily Chappell's race, grinding up mountain passes and charging down the other side; snatching twenty minutes' sleep on the outskirts of a village before jumping back on the bike to surge ahead for another day; feeding in bursts and navigating on the go. We experience the crippling self-doubt of the ultra distance racer, the confusing intensity of winning and the desperation of losing a dear friend who understood all of this.