Just a Little Run Around the World: 5 Years, 3 Packs of Wolves and 53 Pairs of Shoes

Just a Little Run Around the World: 5 Years, 3 Packs of Wolves and 53 Pairs of Shoes
Rosie Swale Pope

After her husband died of cancer, 57-year-old Rosie set off to run around the world, raising money in memory of the man she loved. Followed by wolves, knocked down by a bus, confronted by bears, chased by a naked man with a gun and stranded with severe frostbite, Rosie's breathtaking 20,000-mile solo journey is as gripping as it is inspiring.Rosie's solo run around the world started out of sorrow and heartache and a wish to turn something around.Heartbroken when she lost her husband to cancer, Rosie set off from Wales with nothing but a small backpack of food and equipment, and funded by the rent from her little cottage. So began her epic 5-year journey that would take her 20,000 miles around the world, crossing Europe, Russia, Asia, Alaska, North America, Greenland, Iceland, and back into the UK.On a good day she'd run 30 miles, on a bad day she'd only manage 500 yards, digging herself out of the snow at -62 degrees C, moving her cart inches at a time. Every inch, every mile, was a triumph, a celebration of life, and 53 pairs of shoes later Rosie arrived home to jubilant crowds in Tenby, Wales.Rosie's incredible story is a mesmerizing page-turner of the run of her life. It will wake up the sleeping adventurer in you; it will inspire hope, courage and determination in you; but most of all it will convince you to live your life to the full and make every day count.

ROSIE SWALE POPE

Just a Little

Run Around

the World

5 years,

3 packs of wolves and

53 pairs of shoes

‘Things last for ever,

not in years, but in the moments

in which they happen.’

—Rosie Swale Pope

For Clive, Eve and James, Pete, Jayne and Nigel and the rest of my family far and wide.

Contents

Prologue (#u4c0692d9-6a61-5908-a579-6a88f12e8c27)

Chapter 1 - Clive (#u3d96b8da-29d6-517d-a865-5c6182830e24)

Chapter 2 - The Plan (#u0468cd69-9932-5aaa-af21-e707bbb6a551)

Chapter 3 - The Tenby Bear (#ucc0e92ff-a011-5607-9cfa-15a7957a417f)

Chapter 4 - Eyes in Your Feet (#ud5d39d62-1c94-5dc4-8422-fc02348fbc53)

Chapter 5 - Eric the Wild Boar (#u8f6bc63e-d706-5115-a7a8-bf0cab0cb5ad)

Chapter 6 - Need Makes the Naked Lady Spin (#uf8b9c6b7-d955-5100-b234-e08affa2685d)

Chapter 7 - Rip Van Winkle in a Snow-hole (#u8740a8ae-6f91-5c0c-815f-b49c09e48427)

Chapter 8 - Touching the Stars (#u2ae0a06e-25e2-5549-ba13-88787fb9ed28)

Chapter 9 - A Stranger is Family (#u5c7336df-3583-541d-b313-f4bd465dd84b)

Chapter 10 - The World of Special So-called Ordinary People (#u588c05a2-abe5-52b3-b85a-3a556c6d533d)

Chapter 11 - Shaken not Stirred (#u773c1d8e-aedf-5474-aa78-71c571789047)

Chapter 12 - The Rising of the Phoenix (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 - To Russia with Love (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 - Unstoppable Friend (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 - Paw-prints in the Snow (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 - Kitezh: Bad Times Can End (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 - The Axeman Cometh (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 - Running into Asia (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19 - Omsk: The First Race (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20 - Bandit on a Bicycle (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21 - In a Siberian Hospital (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22 - Winter in Siberia (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 23 - A Siberian Bridge Has No Middle (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 24 - Falling in Love with Alaska (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 25 - There’s No Place Like Nome (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 26 - Surviving in Alaska (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 27 - Topkok (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 28 - White Mountain (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 29 - Breaking the Ice (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 30 - Crazy Rogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 31 - The Comeback (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 32 - Reunion (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 33 - Ballad of the Red Toenails (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 34 - Life Is a Marathon (#litres_trial_promo)