Peaking
One Hundred and Eleven Days on Two Wheels
$37.42
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2026
Summary
We’re sitting around a wood stove as she tells these stories. There’s a gale force wind outside, forest heaving. Another woman in the group ran the New York marathon a few years ago. ‘I wouldn’t do Peaks,’ she says. ‘It’s beyond a marathon, more like an ultra-marathon. You’ll be on the bike all day, maybe eleven hours.’ She’d run the marathon in just over five.
The three peaks are Tawonga Gap, Mt Hotham and Falls Creek in the Victorian high country. Organisers describe the Peaks Chall…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923192867 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923192868 |
| Author: | Saskia Beudel |
| Publisher: | Monash University Publishing |
| Imprint: | Monash University Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 140mm x 215mm |
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Saskia Beudel
Saskia Beudel is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of the novel Borrowed Eyes and nonfiction works A Country in Mind: Memoir with Landscape and (with Jill Bennett) Curating Sydney. Her books have been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, a Dobbie Award and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Saskia’s essays have appeared in Best Australian Essays, The Saturday Paper, The Sydney Review of Books, Kill Your Darlings, HEAT and The Iowa Review, among others.
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