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Running Through the Dark
- The Rise and Fall of an Ultrarunner
- Narrated by: Jen Scotney
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Summary
Ultrarunner Jen Scotney has achieved podium finishes in some of the UK’s toughest races and now has her sights firmly set on the Pennine Way. In Running Through the Dark, Jen talks about her ambitions, not just to run the 268-mile Pennine Way but to take the record as the fastest woman to do so. But that didn’t happen. Nothing went according to plan. The Jen the world knew was a successful lawyer and running coach – all photoshoots and finish-line smiles – but the truth was much darker. The real Jen Scotney, the one she hid from everybody, suffered with chronic fatigue, debilitating injuries, tragedy, grief and at times had a will so beaten down by setbacks that there just didn’t seem any point in going on.
But she did go on. Running Through the Dark is Jen’s account of her ultra-journey. Playing out on the moors of the Pennines, the fells of the Lake District and the mountains of Wales and Scotland, this is much more than a running book, it is a story about resilience, about never giving up, and about battling through the night and always believing that there will be a new dawn.
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- Jo Moseley
- 20-09-24
Brave, intelligent & a reminder of what matters most
I can always tell when I am listening to a book I love on Audible - my step count goes up and I find every opportunity to nip out for a dog walk to listen for 'just another 20 minutes'. This has been the case for the last 48 hours after downloading Jen Scotney's book Running Through The Dark.
For transparency, I have spent time with Jen, have been a guest on her podcast Resilience Rising, subscribe to her Substack newsletter and we share the same editor Kirsty Reade and publishers Vertebrate Publishing.
I thought I understood something of her story and despite not being a runner myself, certainly not a long distance one, I was keen to hear her words. I knew she was an articulate, intelligent and considered writer.
That said, I didn't expect this to be such a beautiful, raw and brave book that has so many threads of grief, love, connection and hope running through it. Like Jen, Albert Camus 'Invincible Summers' has held me up through the darkest of days.
Within the first few pages I was in tears as she described her brother and father's deaths. Her description of the family's last few hours with her father reminded me of my mother's death and stopped me in my tracks.
In many ways this reflects much of Jen's writing - personal and intimate stories about her own life give us an opportunity to ponder upon our own, to feel seen and heard and ultimately less alone. In her detail we find larger themes that we can all relate to in some way.
Jen shows us that even in the darkest of times, there are shoots and roots, connections and hope to hang onto. She also reminds us that what we do is not who we are, that our identity is more than our achievements and that the only path we need to follow is our own.
I will always be impressed she met Lady Hale and the positive difference she made in her legal career.
I found the descriptions of the endurance challenges and running community very moving and interesting. The camaraderie, the support, the preparation and the kindnesses. I have zero interest in running the Pennine Way myself but felt at times as though as I was with Jen on the routes and likewise her portrayal of the Peaks, Lake District and Yorkshire.
This will be a book I dip into I am sure and thank Jen for sharing her courageous journey with us towards those invincible summers. I highly recommend Running Through The Dark.
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- Ms LA Jones
- 17-11-24
An unfinished story
I feel this maybe should have waited until she had found a touch of happiness or at least acceptance. Such a sad story but clearly written in the shroud of bitterness and deep routed depression.
Unfortunately the narration was very monotone I literally couldn’t tell the difference between the happiness of marriage and freedoms to her in her deepest depths of depression.
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