Description
This is much more than a story about one of Australia's greatest runners Heather Turland, who won gold at the Commonwealth Games at Kuala Lumpur. It's about a woman with strength, courage and determination. Her personal journey through life set mostly against the backdrop of Mount Gibralter (near Bowral NSW), where Heather runs 30K morning before breakfast. everyFrom farm girl, hairdresser, wife, inability to conceive, trying to adopt a Sri Lankan baby, starting her own gymnasium business, the despair that followed the fallout of the Crash of 1987, having four children. And being happily married to Garry Turland who rides a bicycle beside her when she runs that mountain.Heather was hit by a motor bike while photographing the Australian Athletics Team in Rome, March 1998. She then spent many weeks in plaster, 'water running' so she could maintain fitness. During this period she was also running a family and a business. Everyone remembers Heather represented Australia in the marathon as one of 6000 competing athletes from 69 participating nations who competed in 17 sports at the 1998 XVI Commonwealth Games, before a live audience of 100,000 at Kuala Lumpur Stadium Malaysia.On the tenth day, everyone saw Heather Turland amaze the world when this 38-year old mother of four won Gold in blistering 38 degree heat.
Everyone who knows Heather agrees that she's also a real good Mum. What people don't know is that Heather Turland writes poetry, doesn't particularly enjoy competition racing, and sometimes talks to cows.
