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Irongran
- How Triathlon Taught Me That Growing Older Needn't Mean Slowing Down
- Narrated by: Charlotte Emmerson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Sports
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At the age of 50, Eddie Brocklesby decided to run her first half marathon. Until that point, she'd done little running, and her exercise regime consisted of little more than chauffeuring her children to their own sports clubs.
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- Fosca
- 24-09-18
What a pity........
that the book was spoiled by a monotone, extremely boring reader. Her tone never changed. It didn’t make any difference if she was reading a dramatic, tragic or funny incident. The reader sounded bored herself. The book could have been read by a computer.
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- Tosin
- 12-08-18
The best book I've read on Triathlon.
Awesome blueprint for a 1st timer like me and more experienced athletes. I learnt so much and it schooled and talked me through so many lessons learnt
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- Charli
- 14-06-18
Inspirational for all.
An incredible story of loss, love and learning. Thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge and inspiring story we can all learn a lot from this book.
6 people found this helpful
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- Patsy
- 03-03-19
disappointing
I bought this book for inspiration, unfortunately it was a self promotiing, name dropping, ego trip on behalf of the author.
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- Richard
- 27-09-18
An incredible woman
Eddie's story is absolutely amazing - from starting running at age 50 she has run marathons, competed in triathlons, cycled across America and represented Team GB in her age group. All that while working as a social worker and parent.
The only thing I found a bit grating was the narrators mispronunciations, but I guess many people will gloss over that.
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- helen
- 25-06-20
BEWARE Awful narration
It was enjoyable despite the narrator picking up a book for the first time. Come on a book about a triathlete and maybe the narrator or producer would realise there are two sylables not three in the word ATHLETE. Also place names mangled throughout.
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- K.B
- 01-05-20
Great inspirational book, shame about the narrator
Edwina is an amazing woman. Totally inspirational with her charity work and determination. She does nothing by half!
However, listening to Charlotte Emmerson is painful. The mispronounciation of Kona to Conner left me at one point wondering where she was referring, Chassis becomes Chasse and constant untimely inflections plus falling over punctuation gaps is somewhat off putting. I would never class myself as a literary perfectionist but it's enough to put me off listening to any other book read by her.
An unfortunate let down for what is a great trip through someone else's amazing life.
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- Terence P
- 16-05-19
Interesting story, terrible narration
Very interesting and inspirational story. Sounded like it was the first time the narrator had read a book out loud, found it very annoying.
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- EllsBells
- 10-10-18
So inspiring!
A fantastic book which I found really inspirational. Edwina is an amazing lady, not only for her outstanding physical achievements, but also for the incredibly important volunteering work she has done, in particular with Silverfit.
The book was not what I had expected and I enjoyed it so much more than I originally had anticipated. I found the narrator mildly annoying with pace and some of the pronunciations, but the content made persevering well worth the while.
Read/listen to it, and then buy it for your mum/dad/grandparents/friends. The book has an incredibly important message to get across, that for the sake of our own mental and physical well-being, we all need to get out and about more, and take responsibly for our own health through personal activity and social interactions.
Eddie's own personal story had me both chuckling and crying during my daily commute.
Recommended for all.
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- MRS J L MACALLAN
- 26-10-21
Great story - shame about the narration
Really fabulous and inspiring story - hope I have half the energy Eddie has in my 70s. I stuck with it because it was so interesting and relatable but it was a struggle because of the dreadful narration. It’s possibly the worst i have come across. It was like she really couldn’t be bothered and just wanted to rush through - very monotone. Awful mispronunciations too - ath-er-lete particularly grated.