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

    Written by Phil Gaimon

    Narrated by Phil Gaimon

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    About this audiobook

    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 "no" 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, cycling's highest level. He takes listeners 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. 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 10, 2017
    ISBN9781541483866
    Draft Animals: Living the Pro Cycling Dream (Once in a While)
    Author

    Phil Gaimon

    Phil Gaimon is a cyclist, writer, and entrepreneur who retired from laziness and computer games in 2004 in favor of riding a bike to lose weight. On a whim, he started racing and soon discovered that he was a natural. Phil advanced rapidly through the amateur ranks and turned professional in his second full year, still ignorant of a century of cycling etiquette. He slowly learned the rules and clawed his way to the top of the American pro ranks, joining Garmin-Sharp in 2014. He maintains a website where he chronicles his ceaseless pursuit of the best cookies and milk in America.

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    • 5/5
      Glad I found Phil’s book. You think you know the cycling greats out there but as in Charlie Wegelius’ ‘Domestique’ you learn that those are just the unsavory characters. Charlie’s book was great, ( so was Merckx’, Hamilton’s, even Armstrong’s, at one time) but unlike Charlie, Phil emerges from pro cycling without being bitter, spiteful, or full of remorse. Highly recommended for a firsthand (no ghost writers) account of what it takes to make it in the dog eats man world of pro road racing. #prayforphil!!
    • 5/5
      I'm sorry that Gaimon is no longer in the World Tour peloton. He has many interesting observations on pro cycling.