Description
Book SynopsisThere Is No Wall is ultrarunner Allie Bailey’s brutally honest and sometimes shocking account of alcoholism, depression and severe mental breakdowns which almost cost her her life.
Told with disarming vulnerability, heartbreaking depth of feeling and dark humour, this isn’t a story about how running saved her – she was already running and at the height of her struggles sometimes even winning 100-mile-plus races. But somewhere between the darkest excesses of the music industry and the simple beauty of the ultrarunning scene, Allie found space to listen, learn and put into practice techniques that would go on to save her life and change it for the better.
There Is No Wall is a story about how doing something you love can lead you to achieve things you never thought possible. Running won’t save you, but it might buy you the time to save yourself.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: The stories we believe are the ones we tell ourselves the most
- PART ONE: THE AWAKENINGS
- Blog One: A prologue to madness (2017)
- I: How the fuck did this happen?
- II: You are so lucky
- III: Running won’t save you
- PART TWO: THE RECKONINGS
- Blog Two: Down and out in Paris (and London) (2017)
- I: Well, that escalated quickly
- II: Love is a four-letter word
- III: There is a rock bottom
- PART THREE: THE REALISINGS
- Blog three: I wanted to be invisible. At my lowest I just wanted to be dead (2021)
- I. Take the pieces and build them skywards
- II. Mind the gap, please.
- III. Dear Reader (protect your magic)
- EPILOGUE
- Blog Four: Until you’re broken, you don’t know what you’re made of. Taking the ride of my life on the Wild Horse 200 (2023)
