Erica Terblanche, author of Run for the Love of Life, has won some of the world’s most iconic multi-day endurance runs including Racing the Planet’s 7-day race in the Sahara Desert. She is the founder of Teach a Girl to Fish, Thrive Guru, and Thrive Run Club. Erica has 20 years of business strategy experience and holds degrees in Engineering and Psychology and Master’s degrees in business and positive psychology.
In this chat, Erica shares how running changed her life and gives great advice for anyone who wants to feel alive, inspired, and filled with a renewed enthusiasm.
BOOK BLURB
Run for the Love of Life recounts the extraordinary journey of South African Erica Terblanche, an ordinary woman who manages to excel on the world stage of extreme distance-running in some of the most inhospitable and majestic landscapes across the planet.
Part travel novel, the story thunders from one exotic race location to the next, as we are pulled along with the runners who battle the elements and each other across the vastness of the Sahara in Egypt, the Atacama in Chile, the Namib Desert in Southern Africa, the great Grand Canyon, Turkish Cappadocia and the Kalahari Desert, to name only a few.
Raw and honest and infinitely human, this memoir shares wisdoms from the furthest edge of endurance and valuable life lessons which will enrich any reader - whether runner or not.
While you may laugh, cry, and forget to take a breath at times, it is inevitable that Run will at some point remind you of your own great potential and long-forgotten dreams, and give you the courage to start again, whatever it is that you have been wanting to for so long.
Far more than just a book on running, at its heart, Run for the love of life is a story about love, forgiveness, perseverance, and growth, and about the important things in life that ultimately make us happy. Told with wit, humor and vulnerability, it is a book that will stay with the reader long after the final page is turned.
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