onglisted 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.
Helen Croydon is an author, ghostwriter, writing coach and former journalist.
Her specialism is memoir and non-fiction, having written two high-profile memoirs of her own. Her first was a dating memoir, Sugar Daddy Diaries: When a Fantasy Became an Obsession (Mainstream Publishing), which made the WHSmith bestseller list in 2011. Her third book was another memoir, about discovering endurance sport. This Girl Ran: Tales of a Party Girl Turned Triathlete (Summersdale) was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award in 2018. Her other titles include Screw the...
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