# This Girl Ran

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- Book: [This Girl Ran](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-croydon/this-girl-ran) ([This Girl Ran.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-croydon/this-girl-ran.md))
- Authors: [Helen Croydon](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-croydon)
- Publisher: summersdale_division
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-17-8685-624-1
- Published: 2018-02-08
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2018 If you had told Helen two years ago that she would be getting up at 6 a. m. on Sundays to swim in a freezing reservoir and spending her Saturday nights unshowered and covered in mud in a pub, she would have spat out her champagne. But when everyone around you starts settling down, what else is a glamorous party girl to do but to launch herself into the world of endurance sport? For someone who didn’t even own a pair of flat shoes (and definitely no waterproofs), Helen would soon find she had a lot to learn. Join Helen on her hilarious and soul-searching journey as she swaps a life of cocktail bars and dating for the challenges and exhilaration of triathlons, trail runs, obstacle races, long-distance cycles and ocean swims… and sets herself the seemingly impossible goal of qualifying as a Team GB triathlete.