{"product_id":"my-greatest-race-ciara-mageean-book","title":"My Greatest Race - Ciara Mageean Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘A harrowing, heartbreaking and yet heartwarming story.’ MARY McALEESE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘We all know Ciara as a warrior on the athletics track. Now she faces the race of her life with the same grit and determination we have come to expect from her.’ SONIA O’SULLIVAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘This book is devastatingly brilliant. Ciara’s life on the track has been world class and contrasting that with her cancer fight is compelling reading ... I genuinely couldn’t stop reading.’ DERVAL O’ROURKE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A raw account from the peak of athletic success to the devastating life-altering blow of cancer, Ciara’s journey is both powerful and unflinchingly honest - one that forces you to pause and reflect on what truly matters.’ DAVID GILLICK\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘An honest, raw, and heartbreaking account of what it takes to fulfil your dreams and endure the pain of having them taken away. Ciara Mageean is a national treasure.’ JACQUI HURLEY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew Irish track athletes are as universally loved as Ciara Mageean, who has remained endearingly down-to-earth, candid and optimistic despite the dramatic twists and turns of her world-class career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2024 she finally won a European title, crossing the line to secure that gold medal in a moment of pure euphoria. Two months later, at the peak of her power, an excruciating injury derailed her once again, forcing an eleventh-hour withdrawal from the Paris Olympics. In the City of Love she went, overnight, from competitor to heartbroken tourist. Nothing, she thought, will ever be as bad as this … and then she got the worst news of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy Greatest Race is a sports memoir like no other, a devastating contrast between the elite athlete road that so few get to travel and the all-too-familiar cancer journey that so many do.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53901696500040,"sku":"9781804585474","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0847\/6252\/6024\/files\/78017A28-A625-4BB0-B5AE-106F19CF8DC4.jpg?v=1787658029","url":"https:\/\/runningbear.co.uk\/products\/my-greatest-race-ciara-mageean-book","provider":"Running Bear","version":"1.0","type":"link"}