The Break: Life as a Cycling Maverick

The Break: Life as a Cycling Maverick

by Steve Cummings
The Break: Life as a Cycling Maverick

The Break: Life as a Cycling Maverick

by Steve Cummings

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Overview

The gripping and revealing autobiography of one of Britain's most successful international cyclists of the modern era Sharp, resourceful and a permanent outsider; for nearly 20 years Steve Cummings determinedly blazed his own winning trail in international cycling. A maverick who defied the dominant teams, to record a sequence of gloriously improbable victories, he has lived and raced with legends of the sport - Cavendish, Wiggins, Froome, Thomas and others - about whom he has strong views and untold stories. This autobiography of one of Britain's most successful international riders of the modern era takes the reader from Steve's earliest days as a junior, pounding across the flatlands of the Wirral, through his love-hate relationships with the British Cycling track cycling squad, to his series of top-level breakaway victories in the Tour de France, Tour of Britain and Vuelta a Españ a and - rather than standout physical talent - how developing his own strategies and training techniques enabled him to succeed against the odds. The Break will be the first full-length account of the life and times of, in the words of ProCycling magazine, a 'universally popular and respected rider

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781838953935
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Publication date: 09/15/2023
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 822,019
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Born in the Wirral, Steve Cummings was a track rider for Team GB from 2001-2007 before racing for top pro teams including Team Sky, BMC and MTN-Qhubeka-Dimension Data. He completed two of the most spectacular stage race victories in recent Tour de France history: at the mountain-top finish in Mende in 2015 and through the Pyrenees in 2016, as well as a stage at the Tour of Spain. He was crowned both British Time Trial and Road-Race National Champion in 2017, the first rider to 'do the double' since Tour de France star David Millar ten years earlier.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Geraint Thomas Preface: The Landmark That Wasn’ t Doughnuts Dilemmas Contrasts 2008– 09: Road or Track? Man on a Mission The Wrong Kind of Limits: Team Sky 2010– 11 No Stress Man Roller Coaster A Human Time Bomb Mandela Day Why I Couldn’ t Train with Mark Cavendish The Right Direction A Race Against Time Back to My Roots Bottles, Britain and a New Beginning Nine Lessons Palmarè s Plate Section: Photography Credits Acknowledgements Index
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