Ebook: Running Hot
Author: Tamati Lisa
- Tags: Long-distance runners--New Zealand, Women long-distance runners--New Zealand, Long-distance runners, Women long-distance runners, Biography, Biographies, Tamati Lisa, Women long-distance runners -- New Zealand -- Biography, Long-distance runners -- New Zealand -- Biography, New Zealand
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Allen & Unwin
- City: Crows Nest;N.S.W;Hove;New Zealand
- Language: English
- epub
The first Australasian woman to take on Badwater - the world's toughest race through Death Valley - Lisa Tamati's incredible journey of ultra-running endurance, heartbreak and resilience is an astounding read for athletes as well as the armchair-inclined.
The Badwater ultramarathon through Death Valley in the United States is one of the world's toughest races. Lisa Tamati was the first New Zealand woman to compete in the race alongside such legends of the sport as Dean Karnazes and David Goggins.
But Lisa's story is so much more than that one race. At the age of 19 she suffered a crippling back injury and was told she should give up running. She took that as a challenge and, with her Austrian boyfriend, went on to run, walk, bike and paddle her way across thousands of kilometres of Europe, Scandinavia and Africa before taking on the ultimate challenge - an unassisted crossing of the Libyan Desert.
What happened in that desert would change the course of Lisa's life and...