I just read a fun book (fiction) about the Tour de France called “The Race” by Dave Shields. His best friend, and a UT Ironman, recommended the book, and for a novice cyclist and triathlete, it was a very enjoyable read. It is an easy read, I finished it in one night, and will make my viewing of the TdF much more enjoyable this year.
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If you get a chance, check out “The Rider” by Tim Krabbe. Here’s a quick description from amazon.com
“The Rider is a great read—a great ride. Krabbé’s half-day race, delivered kilometer by kilometer onto the page, shows the sport for what it is: painful, exhilarating, tactical, relational, fast, slow, dangerous, consuming, prone to mechanical failure, heroic, futile. The race—and the book about the race—becomes a raining and cold history of the rider’s life. But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn’t racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.”—Donald Antrim
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