How Not to Run

A Journey to the Roof of the World

Shauney Watson

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785314971
• Year: 2018

How Not To Run: A Journey to the Roof of the World is the story of a weekend runner who only ever wanted to keep fit to ride her horses with a little more finesse. Shauney always said she would never race. "I just don't see the point. I don't think it would be for me," she used to say. However, four and a half years later she found herself standing in the midst of the towering Himalayas, on the start line of the Everest Marathon, one of the toughest races anywhere in the world. With numerous 10Ks, half-marathons, full marathons, trail races, and ultra-marathons already under her belt, the road from adamant non-racer to extreme long-distance runner had not been a smooth one—and was about to reach new heights of risk, danger, and near disaster. Follow Shauney's journey over thousands of painful yet joyous miles, from some of the most beautiful, hidden parts of Scotland, via unforgettable, eye-watering races, all the way to the heights of the Himalayas—for the pinnacle of her racing and fundraising career so far.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• It wasn’t supposed to be like this
• Alcohol and the internet
• Skinny dipping by moonlight
• Young, blonde and teary-eyed will get you a long way
• Learn to love the weirdos: you’re one of them
• Don’t read maps; they make you sad
• Shakespearean tragedies and swearing at the sky
• Sheep whispering
• Death by seagull and other fatal circumstances
• The technical way to not fall off a cliff
• Out of the frying pan
• Into the fire
• Puddle jumpers and cliff-drop landings
• How to avoid being cursed
• How to breathe
• Think like a yak
• The skilled sport of peeing
• The monks and the Maltesers
• The luxury of a tent attracts the wrong sorts
• The pressing questions
• The jinx that should never have been
• Race day
• End of a chapter
• Photos