Draft Animals: Living the Pro Cycling Dream (Once in a While)

Draft Animals: Living the Pro Cycling Dream (Once in a While)

From the author of the cult favorite Pro Cycling on $10 a Day and Ask a Pro, the story of one manâ€™s quest to realize his childhood dream, and what happened when he actually did it.
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Like countless other kids, Phil Gaimon grew up dreaming of being a professional athlete. But unlike countless other kids, he actually pulled it off. After years of amateur races, hard training, living out of a suitcase, and never taking â€œnoâ€ for an answer, he finally achieved his goal and signed a contract to race professionally on one of the best teams in the world.

Now, Gaimon pulls back the curtain on the WorldTour, cyclingâ€™s highest level. He takes readers along for his seasons in Europe, covering everything from rabid, water-bottle-stealing Belgian fans, to contract renewals, to riding in poisonous smog, to making friends in a sport plagued by doping.Â Draft Animals reveals a story as much about bike racing as it is about the never-ending ladder of achieving goals, failure, and finding happiness if you land somewhere in-between.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-10-10
Format Kindle eBook

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