Gold Medal Olympian Victoria Pendleton, one of the greatest female track cyclists of all time, will be doing an event at The Holroyd Community Theatre in Oswestry, to launch her first book for 15 years, The Fear Opportunity.

Organised by Booka Bookshop Oswestry, An Evening with Vitoria Pendleton starts at 7pm on Tuesday 19 May, and fans will be able to hear stories from Victoria Pendleton’s legendary sporting career where she won 3 Olympic medals, 34 World Championship medals and was the first cyclist to become Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year, as well as getting copies of their book signed.

In The Fear Opportunity, Victoria shares her experience of how both self-doubt and your worst fears can become a catalyst for achieving your goals and the life you want, as she shares stories from her personal life including cycling, horse riding, surfing, confronting the death of her brother Alex and her failed attempt to climb Everest. Victoria has poured everything she has learned from three decades of competition into her new book The Fear Opportunity so you can learn how to turn fear into an opportunity for growth and come out on top.

Now retired from professional cycling, Victoria has taken on monumental challenges from learning to become a jump jockey in one year (one of the most dangerous sports there is), had a failed attempt to climb Everest that left her struggling to breath, as well as facing the challenges of the death of her twin brother and father in the past two years. Despite these challenges, Victoria continues to face her fears and has poured everything she knows about how to overcome fear into her new book The Fear Opportunity.

This game-changing personal development book from gold medal-winning Olympian Victoria Pendleton shows how all of us can benefit from reframing our everyday fears as opportunities, and learn how to use our stress responses in a positive way.

What if the ultimate way to find calm, build strength and grow in confidence isn’t by reducing the risks we face, but by stepping outside of our comfort zones?

What if we could grow our sense of self by doing things we doubted we were capable of and change our mindset to see life’s challenges as just another adventure?

The most successful female cyclist of all time, Olympic cyclist Victoria Pendleton was nine-times world champion winning gold at two Olympics, competed in one of the world’s most prestigious horse-races (with no previous experience), and attempted and failed to climb Everest. In this book Victoria – alongside the neuroscientists, researchers and psychologists she interviews throughout – is ultra-clear that the lessons she has learned from her extreme experiences can be easily applied to our everyday ones.

Whether it’s reframing big fears – fear of the unknown, fear of change, fear of failure – as opportunities for growth, or stepping outside of your comfort zone on purpose The Fear Opportunity shows that doing the things that scare us have real, measurable benefit.

In The Fear Opportunity you’ll learn the importance of the stories we tell ourselves and the powerful impact of changing them. Plus, Victoria examines five common major fears and unpacks how altering the way you see them can transform your life:

- Failure – can be understood as a bridge to improvement and a way to understand your intrinsic worth, whether you succeed or not
- Change – a doorway to exciting new opportunities and a chance to uncover what it is you really care about
- The unknown – leaning into uncertainty can make you more creative, curious and better able to navigate life’s ups and downs
- Being different – in reality, fear of standing out is often a desire to connect and belong; acting on that instead will have clear and pleasurable benefits
- Death – perhaps the ultimate fear, and the ultimate call to appreciate everything life has to offer, while we have it.

Packed with examples and clear takeaways, The Fear Opportunity is a life-affirming toolkit for positively channelling fear, and how to harness your fear to discover everything you’re capable of and understand what matters to you most.