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

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

<b>From the author of the cult favorite <i>Pro Cycling on $10 a Day </i>and <i>Ask a Pro</i>, the story of one man’s quest to realize his childhood dream, and what happened when he actually did it.</b><br /> <b><i> </i></b><br /> 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.<br /><br /> Now, Gaimon pulls back the curtain on the WorldTour, cycling’s highest level. He takes readers 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. <i>Draft Animals</i> 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.