Coasting
Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans
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Coasting
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Narrated by:
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Elise Downing
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Elise Downing
About this listen
Running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything - but sometimes it’s more fun than dealing with them.
Elise was spending a lot of time crying on buses. She had just graduated from university; had a shiny new flat, her first proper job and a budding relationship - and they were making her miserable. Sitting at work one day, she hit upon the obvious solution. Run 5,000 miles around the coast of Britain, carrying her kit on her back. Six months later Elise set off, with absolutely no ultra-running experience, unable to read a map and having never pitched a tent before. Over the 301 days that followed, she developed a debilitating fear of farmyard animals, cried on a lot of beaches and saw Britain at its most wild and wonderful. With heart and humour, Elise explores the thrill of taking risks and putting your trust in total strangers, and learns some home truths along the way.
©2021 Elise Downing (P)2021 W F HowesListeners also enjoyed...
Elise spoke quite fast and took a chapter or two to get used to it but once that was done it was a rollercoaster of a journey
Loved it
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Nice Story
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What an amazing achievement
Well done Elise. Great running listening 😄🏃🏽♀️Didn’t want it to finish
Great running listening
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Great adventure book
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It's fun and enjoyable - I liked Elise and she tells interesting stories of her encounters with other people along the journey and is honest about her own struggles with self acceptance. In many ways, the book is about relationships and personality.
It's not really a book about nature or place. If you love those things, you may well find her descriptions of them thin and unsatisfying, as I did. It was frustrating to hear so little about the things I was really wanting to know about.
But this is fun to listen to and definitely worth a try.
Could have been so much more
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