The British cycling icon talks James Shrubsall through her astonishing journey, on and off the bike

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LET COUNSELLOR KEREN LIGHTEN YOUR LOAD

‘If I gave up work, what would I do?’

I actually feel like I’m not much of a risk-taker,” says Louise Ferguson. These are unexpected words coming from the first woman to complete a top-to-bottom race run through the treacherous rocks, off

They’d have loved the drama of it – bowing out almost exactly ten years apart. Born in the same year and with the same initials, both queens of the bonkbuster. One was a Hollywood lioness, the other a