{"product_id":"rough-ride-9780224080170","title":"Rough Ride","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eye-opening expose of and a heart-breaking lament for professional cycling\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Kimmage''s boyhood dreams were of cycling glory: wearing the yellow jersey, cycling the Tour de France, becoming a national hero. He knew it wouldn''t come easy, but he was prepared to put in the graft. The dedication paid off  he finished sixth in the World Championships as an amateur and in 1986, he turned professional.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe soon discovered it wasn''t about courage, training hours or how much you wanted to win. It was about gruelling defeats, total exhaustion, and drugs - drugs that would allow you to finish the race and start another day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kimmage ultimately left the sport to write this book  profoundly honest and ground-breaking, \u003ci\u003eRough Ride \u003c\/i\u003ebroke the silence surrounding the issue of drugs in sport, and documents one man's love for, and struggle with, the complex world of professional cycling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA must read for any cyclist' \u003ci\u003eCyclist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSent shockwaves through the peloton -- Daniel Friebe * Outdoor Fitness *\u003cbr\u003eA devastatingly frank description of life on the professional road cycling circuit, hurtful in its telling of unwelcome truths yet powerful in its capture of what it takes, legally and illegally, to compete -- Mary Perryman * Huffington Post UK *\u003cbr\u003eIn the wake of the Armstrong affair, you can’t move for books about doping, but Kimmage, and ex-pro rider himself, was the first to ‘spit in the soup’ back in the 1990s... A must read for any cyclist * Cyclist *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48883866698071,"sku":"9780224080170","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780224080170.jpg?v=1722529372","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rough-ride-9780224080170","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}