Eat, Sleep, Ride (eBook)

How I Braved Bears, Badlands, and Big Breakfasts in My Quest to Cycle the Tour Divide

Paul Howard (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
256 Seiten
Greystone Books (Verlag)
978-1-55365-818-4 (ISBN)

Infos

For Paul Howard, who has ridden the entire Tour de France route during the race itselfsetting off at 4 am each day to avoid being caught by the prosriding a small mountain-bike race should hold no fear. Still, this isnt just any mountain-bike race. This is the Tour Divide.Running from Banff in Canada to the Mexican border, the Tour Divide is more than 2,700 miles500 miles longer than the Tour de France. Its route along the Continental Divide goes through the heart of the Rocky Mountains and involves more than 200,000 feet of ascentthe equivalent of climbing Mount Everest seven times.The other problem is that Howard has never owned a mountain bikeand how will training on the South Downs in southern England prepare him for sleeping rough in the Rockies? Entertaining and engaging, Eat, Sleep, Ride will appeal to avid and aspiring cyclers, as well as fans of adventure/travel narrative with a humorous twist.

Autor

Paul Howard's first book, Riding High, was shortlisted for the National Sporting Club’s Best New Sports Writer prize, while his account of Jacques Anquetil's life, Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape, was shortlisted in the Biography of the Year category at the British Sports Book Awards.

Inhalt

AcknowledgementsSussexChapter 1 SeductionChapter 2 A series of unfortunate eventsCanadaChapter 3 The bear necessitiesChapter 4 A horseshoe for luckChapter 5 Bringing up the rearChapter 6 Where the wild things areMontanaChapter 7 Breakfast with Dolly PartonChapter 8 Swan LakeChapter 9 A river runs through itChapter 10 Three kinds of psychopathChapter 11 Signs of lifeChapter 12 Singing in the rainChapter 13 Here’s mud in your eyeChapter 14 This is not PeruChapter 15 Leaving MontanaIdaho and WyomingChapter 16 No room at the innChapter 17 Down the Green RiverChapter 18 Encounter with a cowboyChapter 19 Across the BasinChapter 20 Saved by a sirenColoradoChapter 21 Moscow callingChapter 22 Eat, sleep and be grumpyChapter 23 I wandered lonely as a cloudChapter 24 Cannibal adventure!Chapter 25 It’s all downhill from hereNew MexicoChapter 26 Independence DayChapter 27 Through the rainbowChapter 28 Losing my innocence in Wal-MartChapter 29 Pie TownChapter 30 Geronimo!Chapter 31 The fallChapter 32 Satisfaction

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Fahrrad
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Motor- / Rad- / Flugsport
• ISBN-10: 1-55365-818-3 / 1553658183
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55365-818-4 / 9781553658184