article_snippet.sent: (Aurum Press £12.99) Waiting nervously at the starting line of Lizzy Hawker first 155 km race around Mont Blanc, 29-year-old Lizzy Hawker looked down at Lizzy Hawker holey long johns,
article_snippet.sent: Lizzy Hawker had entered the 2005 Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) on a whim —
article_snippet.sent: Some 26 hours, 51 minutes and 51 seconds later, Hawker surprised Hawker, and everyone else, by becoming the first woman to cross the dark, wet, Alpine finish line that year, coming 24th overall.
article_snippet.sent: Hawker entered the 2005 Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc  (pictured) on a whim and Hawker's since gone on to become Britain’s most distinctive female
article_snippet.sent: Britain’s most distinctive female ‘ultra runner’, coming first in the UTMB five times, taking gold in the Women’s 100km World Championships in Korea in 2006, setting a new womenBritain’s world record for 24 hours on the road in the 2011 Commonwealth Championships and a new course record at the sunbaked 246 km Spartathlon in 2012.
highlights_snippet.sent: Lizzy Hawker entered the 2005 Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) on a whim .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Lizzy Hawker was the first woman to cross the finish line that year in 24th place .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: most distinctive female ‘ultra runner’ 