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Overview'Getting in a break was my one chance of winning. The hard part was working out, again andagain, how to make that chance count.' - Steve Cummings Sharp, resourceful and a permanent outsider; for nearly 20 years Steve Cummingsdeterminedly blazed his own winning trail in international cycling. A maverick who defied thedominant teams, to record a sequence of gloriously improbable victories, he has lived andraced with legends of the sport - Cavendish, Wiggins, Froome, Thomas and others - aboutwhom he has strong views and untold stories. This autobiography of one of Britain's most successful international riders of the modern eratakes the reader from Steve's earliest days as a junior, pounding across the flatlands of theWirral, through his love-hate relationships with the British Cycling track cycling squad, to hisseries of top-level breakaway victories in the Tour de France, Tour of Britain and Vuelta aEspaa and - rather than standout physical talent - how developing his own strategies andtraining 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 ProCyclingmagazine, a 'universally popular and respected rider in the cycling world'. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Steve CummingsPublisher: Atlantic Books Imprint: Atlantic Books Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.561kg ISBN: 9781838953911ISBN 10: 1838953914 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 19 May 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contentsi: Foreword: Geraint Thomas ii: Preface: The Landmark That Wasn't 1: Doughnuts 2: Dilemmas 3: Contrasts 4: 2008-09: Road or Track? 5: Man on a Mission 6: The Wrong Kind of Limits: Team Sky 2010-11 7: No Stress Man 8: Roller Coaster 9: A Human Time Bomb 10: Mandela Day 11: Why I Couldn't Train with Mark Cavendish 12: The Right Direction 13: A Race Against Time 14: Back to My Roots 15: Bottles, Britain and a New Beginning iii: Nine Lessons iv: Palmares v: Acknowledgements vi: IndexReviewsIf you wanted me to pinpoint the main reason why Steve succeeded, it's the way he sees bike racing, his willingness to try something new, to do something differently ... There are so many guys out there who are strong, but Steve didn't just have the legs, he had the brains and the head for it all as well and that was his big advantage. * Geraint Thomas * Author InformationBorn in the Wirral, Steve Cummings was a track rider for Team GB from 2001-2007 before racing for top pro teams including Team Sky, BMC and MTN-Qhubeka-Dimension Data. He completed two of the most spectacular stage race victories in recent Tour de France history: at the mountain-top finish in Mende in 2015 and through the Pyrenees in 2016, as well as a stage at the Tour of Spain. He was crowned both British Time Trial and Road-Race National Champion in 2017, the first rider to 'do the double' since Tour de France star David Millar ten years earlier. Recently retired, he is now development director at Ineos Grenadiers. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |