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Limitless

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

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By: Lucy Waterlow - contributor, Mimi Anderson
Narrated by: Lyssa Browne
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About this listen

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

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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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loved hearing Mimi's story but could have done without the annoying American narrating it and the constant milage to kilometre conversion.
Mimi is an inspiration to women in their fifties and shows with great determination what can be achieved.

inspirational

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I really liked Mimi Anderson’s first book. And although not narrated by a Scottish accented reader it was easy to pass off as it was at least narrated by a British person and the author has lived out of Scotland for a long time. But listening to this narrated by an American accented reader just didn’t make the retelling of the story sound true to life. Add to that the sometimes fast, sometimes slow reading style I found this very difficult to listen to and overall was more pleased it was finished than glad I downloaded it

Good story but narrated wrong

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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 story, truly inspirational, but I would have preferred an English narrator. Mimi is about as quintessentially English as one can get, so for her story to be narrated by an American just doesn’t make sense, and detracts from the story in places. Other than that, it’s a great book!

Great story, truly inspirational, but…

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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 always prefer when the author narrates the book themselves, but it’s really disappointing this one is narrated by an American and not someone Scottish or even British. If it was about an American runner, it’s fitting to be narrated by an America . It spoils the whole experience of the book even though the story and the subject matter is something I’d normally really enjoy.

Great book, awful narration

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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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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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well worth the listen. this is a great story which hs been narrated very well by the author

great story

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I usually like ultra running books and I'm being generous with my score here since I don't know how much of my dislike is from the narration (weird inflections, pauses and pacing) and how much is the book itself.

bad narration, middle of the road story

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