Aside from her rock and roll celebrity looks, Catra Corbett is a standout in the running world on her accomplishments only. Catra is the first American woman to run over one hundred miles or more on several hundred events and the first ever to run one hundred and two hundred mls in the Ohlone Wilderness, and she keeps the fastest known double time for the 425-miles lengthy John Muir Trail, completing it in twelve times, four hours, and fifty-seven a few minutes.

And, unbelievably, she’s also a previous meth approximately Reborn away from home: My Journey from Addiction to Ultramarathons addict.

After two years of addiction, Catra is busted while selling, and a night in jail is enough to create her directly. She gives up drugs and moves back home with her mom, abandoning her close friends, her partner, and the lifestyle that she found rely on. Her just clean friend pushes her to train for a 10K with him, and remarkably, she prefers it and decides to perform her initial marathon after that.

In Reborn away from home, the listener helps to keep pace with Catra as she runs through challenging terrain and severe weather, is stalked by animals in the wilderness, and nearly dies on an exercise run but continues on, smashing running records and becoming among the world’s best ultrarunners.