And Rowsell Shand enjoys the social side of the sport, happily chatting to anyone who recognises her when she is out on the roads.
The feminist poet and thinker Audre Lorde recognises this potential when she says: "For those of us who write it is necessary to scrutinise not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of the language by which we speak it".
When Mr Elton proposes to her she recognises what the reader has always known: he is vain, cold-hearted and repulsive.
She recognises me when I walk on the riverbank".
The award to recognises an effort which began in 1977 when she walked into the ministry of forests in Nairobi and asked for 15m tree seedlings to stop soil erosion, provide fuel and improve the lot of the poorest communities.
She became happy when she heard this.
She decides when she sees you coming.
Then she recognises his tattoo: "I gave him hell when he came back with that new tat./He was just sixteen but adamant./A coiling dragon,/its tail wrapped about his arm".
She recognises the dog immediately as she had met him when he was a puppy and it was she who named him Jack Pepper.
