Reading the Race: Bike Racing from Inside the Peloton Author: Smith Jamie Horner Chris Chris Horner | Language: English | ISBN:
B00GA9R2FQ | Format: PDF
Reading the Race: Bike Racing from Inside the Peloton Description
In Reading the Race, race announcer Jamie Smith and veteran road captain Chris Horner team up to deliver a master class in bike racing strategies and tactics. Armed with strategies and tactics learned over thousands of races, cyclists and cycling fans will learn how to read a race—and see how to win it.
Bike racing is called a rolling chess game for a reason. Sure, a high pain threshold and a killer VO2max are helpful. But if you’re in it to win it, you need race smarts. Starting breaks, forming alliances, managing a lapped field, setting up a sprint—on every page, Horner and Smith reveal new secrets to faster racing and better results.
Smith and Horner dissect common mistakes, guiding riders with lessons learned from decades of racing experience. Reading the Race reveals the veteran’s eye view on:
- Assembling the best possible team
- Crafting strategies around the team, course, and rivals
- Reacting instantly to common scenarios
- Making deals and combines
- Breaks, echelons, blocking
- Pack protocol and etiquette
- Finishing in the prize money or on the podium
- Winning the group ride
Whether you’re a new racer, an aspiring pro, a team manager, or even a roadside fan, Reading the Race will elevate your cycling IQ for better racing.
- File Size: 11804 KB
- Print Length: 256 pages
- Publisher: VeloPress (September 13, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00GA9R2FQ
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,535 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Sports > Individual Sports > Cycling - #75
in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Individual Sports > Cycling
I've been racing off and on since the 1980's and I have read almost every book written in English about the tactics and techniques of the sport. This is one of the best, and for the typical American amateur racer, the best manual about "how to race bikes".
The author covered just about everything, and did it well with humor and stories. Especially the last few chapters on teams and goals, great reminders about what's really important.
Unequivocal recommendation. Buy it. Read it. Get your teammates to read it. Require any new teammies to read it. Have a test.
By Scott Braden
Good book with lots of tips. However, the way it is advertised it makes it look like Horner is giving inside the peleton info. He doesn't. His contribution is limited to sidebar stories.
By Mfeather
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