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Jill Homer, a paper editor in Alaska, has an outlandish ambition: a 2,740-mile mountain bike competition from Canada to Mexico across the rugged Continental Split. However in the traditions of best-laid programs, Jill's dream starts off to unravel when she models it in movement. An accident during a competition on the Iditarod Trail results serious frostbite. As she struggles with painful restoration and uncertainties about departing a good job to follow a apparently impossible fantasy, her employer without doubt an offer she can't refuse. Just two days before their departure day, her partner ends their eight-year romance. This final blow dismantles everything Jill thought she understood about life, love and her own personality. Be Daring, Be Strong: A Journey Over the Great Split is the story of an trip driven relentlessly frontward as foundations crumble. During her record-breaking ride in this year's 2009 Tour Split, Jill fights a torrent of self-doubt, anger, tiredness, loneliness, pain, grief, bi-cycle failures, crashes, violent storms, and hopelessness. Each night, she collapses under the crushing effort of the savage new way of life. And each morning, she accumulates the items and hits out anew in an ongoing journey to find what lies on the other side of the Great Split: astonishing beauty, unconditional kindness, and boundless durability.
