There is No Wall

Allie Bailey, Allie Bailey

From Shelf: Vertebrate Publishing running books

There Is No Wall is ultrarunner Allie Bailey's brutally honest account of alcoholism, depression and severe mental breakdowns which almost cost her her life. But it isn't a story about how running saved her, it's a story about how running can buy you the time you need to recover and lead you to achieve things you never thought possible.

There Is No Wall is ultrarunner Allie Bailey's brutally honest and sometimes shocking account of alcoholism, depression and severe mental breakdowns which almost cost her her life.

Told with disarming vulnerability, heartbreaking depth of feeling and dark humour, this isn't a story about how running saved her - she was already running and at the height of her struggles sometimes even winning 100-mile-plus races. But somewhere between the darkest excesses of the music industry and the simple beauty of the ultrarunning scene, Allie found space to listen, learn and put into practice techniques that would go on to save her life and change it for the better.

There Is No Wall is a story about how doing something you love can lead you to achieve things you never thought possible. Running won't save you, but it might buy you the time to save yourself.