Hollie's Road to Kona

A Young Woman's Ironman Mission

Hollie Cradduck

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785311529
• Year: 2016

Hollie's Road to Kona begins as a story of one young triathlete's ambition to conquer one of the hardest sporting endurance tests out there, but after a personal tragedy, the story develops into a journey to honor her niece and best friend. Crossing the finish line on that first 17-hour event, wrought with fatigue, but buzzing at having just realized her dream of becoming an ironman, Hollie is greeted with the tragic news of the death of her niece Rosie. Completing the race was meant to be the end, but it is only the beginning, and so begins the story of that journey. Hollie suffers some spectacular highs, crushing lows, and fights through the fog of depression as she undertakes a grueling training schedule as she aims to deliver on a promise made to her late friend and compete at the Ironman World Championships.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Prologue
• 1 ‘Family. Where life begins…’
• 2 ‘It’s not what we have in life…’
• 3 ‘A journey of a thousand miles…’
• 4 ‘The quality of life…’
• 5 ‘It’s hard to wake up…’
• 6 ‘I closed my eyes for only one second…’
• 7 ‘If we remembered every day…’
• 8 ‘There’s a special place in my heart…’
• 9 ‘What grief does…’
• 10 ‘Do not pray for an easy life…’
• 11 ‘A broken heart is what changes people.’
• 12 ‘She believed she could so she did.’
• 13 ‘Here is one of the worst things…’
• 14 ‘Die with memories, not dreams.’
• 15 ‘If your dreams do not scare you…’
• 16 ‘It always seems impossible until it’s done.’
• 17 ‘Life is a journey, not a destination.’
• Afterword
• photographs