I really enjoyed this, a fascinating and inspirational read even if you’re not a cycling fan or into sports biographies. As the title states this is “not about the bike” well not completely anyways, of course the bike is always present (even on Lance’s sickest days when he could barely stand from...
The trouble is, nobody who does what I do for a living is happy-go-lucky. I don’t bomb down a hill at 70 miles an hour with a smile on my face. If you want to win something, you’ve got to have single-mindedness, and it’s all too easy to wind up lonesome while you’re at it. A race is an exercise i...