The Break
Life as a Cycling Maverick
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The Break
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Robin Morrissey
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Robin Morrissey
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Steve Cummings
'Getting in a break was my one chance of winning. The hard part was working out, again and again, how to make that chance count'
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 España 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 in the cycling world'.©2022 Steve Cummings (P)2022 W. F. Howes Ltd
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There’s some great insight in it. Not just into road cycling but also in the psychological site of racing.
I really enjoyed those parts where he went into details of planning stages beforehand and the training and equipment he we’d use for giving him the best chance to win those stages and who he used all those aspect on the road for making it all work.
On the other side it feels like at least a third of the book is filled with stories and anecdotes about Wiggins, Froome, Thomas and Cavendish, which are okay to sometimes entertaining but don’t really feel like they contribute to this book in a biographical sense.
In the end it ended on a good note when he described his work as a becoming Director Sportive and gave some insight into the overwhelming logistic that go into a race from a directors perspective.
Overall a good book and at least a somehow unique perspective compared to other more moderate structured biographies.
A hard one too judge
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