The book is an ‘Everyman meets Supermen and Superwomen’ tale of woe, blood, sweat, tears, disappointment and the odd laugh.
This isn’t my first book but it’s the first where I’ve shone a light on myself. It’s about me as a 40-something-year-old taking on a major challenge, the Étape du Tour, a mass participation ride that mirrors one of the big mountain stages of the Tour de France.
To prepare myself, I tapped into my contacts from many years working in the cycling industry to try to learn the tricks of the pros and assimilate them in a very diluted way that would work for me – someone with a day job and a couple
