Bonnie Hancock
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There are many ways to travel around this vast country.
Oh my gosh.
We've got to take ourselves back to those years, right?
I mean, mid-2020 was when I picked up a book, which turned out to be quite a fateful sort of day.
You know, just like any day during COVID, we were coming in and out of lockdowns.
There was still no toilet paper on the shelves whatsoever.
And I went to my local library for
I love reading.
It's part of, I guess, that important part of being an athlete.
You want to switch off and reading helps me do that.
And I went to my library.
I picked up three books.
And as part of that pile was a book called Fearless.
It was about Freya Hoffmeister, the German woman who paddled around Australia in 2009.
And I'd never heard of her story.
Somehow it didn't quite make it into the mainstream media.
And she broke the record.
She beat the blokes who had the records prior.
And she did it in 10 and a half months.
I got about a chapter into this book.