Download or read book Racing Through the Dark written by David Millar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WORLD-CLASS CYCLIST, Tour de France stage winner, and time trial specialist David Millar offers a vivid portrait of his life in professional cycling—including his soul-searing detour into performance-enhancing drugs, his dramatic arrest and two-year ban, and his ultimate decision to return to the sport he loves to race clean—in this arrestingly candid memoir, which he wrote himself. As a young Scottish expat living in Hong Kong with his father after his parents’ divorce, Millar showed early promise with mountain biking and BMX. Two wise local cyclists took him under their wings, encouraging him to concentrate on road racing. Millar proved a ready convert. Racing Through the Dark offers the winning account of his climb through the ranks—first as an amateur and then as a pro, riding for the French team Cofidis. Among his early triumphs were several stage wins in the Tour de France. From the moment Millar turned pro, he began to see hints of the unethical measures that many— maybe most—of the other pros were taking in order to race at the very tops of their games . . . and beyond. At first, he felt that he was immune to temptation, that he could win clean. But the ugly pervasiveness of performance-enhancing drugs and the seemingly universal attitude that condoned it began to corrode his willpower. Racing Through the Dark details his eventual capitulation, his subsequent arrest and two-year ban from cycling, and his remarkable comeback as a clean cyclist who is now doing his utmost to keep performance-enhancing drugs out of the sport he so loves. Filled with thrilling descriptions of the world’s most spectacular courses, Racing Through the Dark captures the pure joy of cycling and includes some of the most vivid accounts of racing ever written by a true insider.
Download or read book Racing Through the Dark written by David Millar and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tour de France cyclist comes to terms with drug use and cleans up.
Download or read book The Racer written by David Millar and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it really like to be a racer? What is it like to be swept along at 60kmh in the middle of the pack? What happens to the body during a high-speed chute? What tactics must teams employ to win the day, the jersey, the grand tour? What sacrifices must a cyclist make to reach the highest levels? What is it like on the bus? In the hotels? What camaraderie is built in the confines of a team? What rivalries? How does it feel to be constantly on the road, away from loved ones, tasting one more calorie-counted hotel breakfast? David Millar offers us a unique insight into the mind of a professional cyclist during his last year before retirement. Over the course of a season on the World Tour, Millar puts us in touch with the sights, smells and sounds of the sport. This is a book about youth and age, fresh-faced excitement and hard-earned experience. It is a love letter to cycling. 'Cycling has always been about a great deal more than its winners, and The Racer is quite a ride' Spectator
Download or read book The Racer written by David Millar and published by Yellow Jersey Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and powerful insight into the mind of a professional cyclist in his last year before retirement, from British cyclist David Millar, writer of the bestselling Racing Through the Dark. What is it like to be swept along at 60kmh in the middle of the pack? How does it feel to be reeled in from a solo breakaway metres from the line? What happens to the body during a high-speed chute? What tactics must teams employ to win the day, the jersey, the grand tour? How does a domestique keep going to the end of a stage when he's blown-up after towing his leader to the penultimate climb? How does a time-triallist maintain his form when every muscle and sinew is screaming at him to stop? What sacrifices must a cyclist make to reach the highest levels? What is it like on the bus? In the hotels? What camaraderie is built in the confines of a team? What rivalries? How does it feel to be constantly on the road, away from loved ones, tasting one more calorie-counted hotel breakfast? David Millar offers us a unique insight into the mind of a professional cyclist during his last year before retirement. Over the course of a season on the Pro Tour, Millar puts us in touch with the sights, smells and sounds of the sport -- the barked instructions of a road captain in a sprint chain, the silence of a solo training ride. This is a book about youth and age, fresh-faced excitement and hard-earned experience. It is a love letter to cycling.
Download or read book The Black Circle written by Mansfield Scott and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cat in the Dark written by Shirley Rousseau Murphy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of course I worry. What if the cops witness a cat opening a skylight and masterminding a robbery? The tabloids will love it." There's a new pair of thieves in MolenaPoint, California, a renegade yellow-eyedtomcat with a cold disdain for the law,and a scruffy human partner who isno better. The two, clever and silentat their work, are bad news indeedto crime-solving cats Joe Grey andDulcie. But when Joe learns the pair'sconnection to a good friend, and then an innocent couple turns up dead in the library garden, Joe and Dulcie must engage in some fancy paw work to unmask the deceptions and route the real killer -- before his brazen criminal crime spree careens madly toward them.
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Download or read book The Dark Dawn written by Martha Ostenso and published by New York : Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 1926 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Psychological conflict in a marriage against a midwestern farm background." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
Download or read book Watcher in the Dark written by Beverly Hastings and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1986 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erin is caring for 4-year-old Abby while Mr. Peters is away, when mysterious phone calls and a feeling of being watched start, then Abby disappears.
Download or read book In the Dark of the Night written by John Saul and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brewster family's idyllic summer vacation at Phantom Lake turns to horror when their teenage son and his friends stumble upon a mysterious secret room in their rental home, a room that has a strange influence over the boys.
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Download or read book Autumn Rose The Dark Heroine Book 2 written by Abigail Gibbs and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated sequel to The Dark Heroine: Dinner with a Vampire
Download or read book Are You Afraid of the Dark with Bonus Material written by Sidney Sheldon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a limited time, and at a special price, discover Sidney Sheldon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? with Bonus Material. Plus, receive an excerpt from Sheldon’s new book Sidney Sheldon’s The Tides of Memory, available April 9th. In Are You Afraid of the Dark? all around the globe, people are being reported dead or missing. In Berlin, a woman vanishes from the city streets. In Paris, a man plunges from the Eiffel Tower. In Denver, a small plane crashes into the mountains. In Manhattan, a body washes ashore along the East River. At first these seem to be random incidents, but the police soon discover that all four of the victims are connected to Kingsley International Group (KIG), the largest think tank in the world. Kelly Harris and Diane Stevens—young widows of two of the victims—encounter each other in New York, where they have been asked to meet with Tanner Kingsley, the head of KIG. He assures them that he is using all available resources to find out who is behind the mysterious deaths of their husbands. But he may be too late. Someone is intent on murdering both women, and they suffer a harrowing series of near escapes. Who is trying to kill them and why? Forced together for protection, suspicious of each other and everyone around them, and trying to find answers for themselves, the two widows embark on a terrifying game of cat and mouse against the unknown forces out to destroy them.
Download or read book The Black Swans and Other Friends Indoors and Out written by Alvin Howard Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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