Secret insecurities and how to overcome them -- a world champion's real triumph
WILLIAM HILL SHORTLIST A Life With No Limits: A World Champion's Journey, by Chrissie Wellington There are some uplifting stories among the shortlist for the 2012 William Hill Sports Book of the Year, the winner of which will be revealed tomorrow, but on that score this tale of triumph over adversity arguably trumps them all. Chrissie Wellington, four times winner of the Ironman Triathlon World Championship, world record holder, unbeaten in 13 competitive events in the most gruelling test of combined athletics disciplines, can be described quite reasonably as the toughest female athlete on the planet. There are not many, after all, who could complete a 2.4-mile swim, an 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile running marathon one after the other, let alone do so in 8hrs 18min 32sec, a staggering 32 minutes faster than the record she broke in doing so. Yet Wellington did not run a marathon until she was 25, in London, before which she had endured an adolescence so trouble