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Limitless

An Ultrarunner’s Story of Pain, Perseverance and the Pursuit of Success

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The follow-up to her first memoir Beyond Impossible, this next instalment in Mimi’s inspiring story proves that when one door closes, another opens.

At the age of 55, record-breaking ultrarunner Mimi Anderson embarked on her most ambitious adventure yet. She wanted to become the fastest woman in history to run across America from Los Angeles to New York. For 40 days, the determined mother of three pushed herself on and on for more than 2,000 miles across the vast continent, despite the onset of severe pain, until she was forced to make a crushing decision: carry on and risk never being able to run again, or give up on her all-time goal. What happened next set Mimi on a new, unexpected journey. She learned to face her fears and bounce back from defeat by taking up the new challenge of becoming a triathlete.

©2021 Mimi Anderson (P)2021 W F Howes Running & Jogging Sports Women

Critic reviews

"In Limitless, Mimi shows that sometimes the greatest adventures in life come from finding the courage to step away from our dreams and into the unknown." (Anna Mcnuff)
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well worth the listen. this is a great story which hs been narrated very well by the author

great story

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Very inspiring and brave writing. Refreshing to hear about the hardships in not completing a challenge and finding a way forward.

Marvelous

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Great follow up to the first book. love the story. would have far preferred it with a different narrator. Mimi is British and an American narrator just doesn't feel like her voice, especially when the pronunciation of places is wrong.

Great story, not the right narrator

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Firstly this book is great and you should listen to it. Great story from a great runner and really well written. BUT the without is Scottish not American so all the pronunciation is incorrect and it just feels weird that the narrator cannot get simple UK place names correct. Secondly (and this nearly made me stop listening) every single time a measurement is spoken it’s then repeated with its imperial equivalent or vice versa. Throughout the entire book and it’s very annoying and interrupts the story many times. So “today I ran 10 miles, 16 km and the day after 20 miles, 32 I’m” for example. Apart from those huge mistakes the content is great. Well worth a read.

Great Story Awful Narration

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I found the book a little disappointing as felt devoid of any real feeling and was read as if straight from a training log.
Maybe this was down to the narraton rather than the story.

Disappointing Narration

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