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I knew I would have to read this book after I saw this article (http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-...) on Outside Magazine. I bought it the day it came out and have spent every spare moment reading it since. A little background: my dad is a huge cycling fan. He even raced in some small races when he was younger. He taught my sister and I to ride bikes when we were young and it turned into a family hobby—long bike rides to all sorts of places. There was no city too big or any ride too long. We each had our own special mountain bikes…Treks for everyone! They let us buy helmets and gloves that matched our bikes too. Green for me, gray for my sister. We started watching the Tour de France as a family when I was still very young, but it didn’t start to really interest me until I was in high school. It became a big summer event for us. When we vacationed in Nova Scotia and stayed in a cabin on the lake that didn’t have cable, my grandma recorded each stage for us and we jerry-rigged a VCR (!) up to a small TV and huddled around to watch. Of course, we were watching to see if Lance Armstrong could win again. And then next summer, we’d ask: Can he do it yet again? We discussed his rivals in detail—their pros and cons. I knew all the best phrases that Paul Sherwin and Phil Liggett (the Tour de France commentators) used when they got excited. “He’s riding like a man possessed!”Turns out, they were sort of right, but in a way that maybe no one imagined…or more likely, that no one wanted to admit. When I was in high school, each summer my dad and I would go on “training rides” in the rural hills around our home in Virginia with the intent of us doing a fast century (100 mile) two-day ride someday. We’d ride in the early morning before the bugs got bad and the humidity became too oppressive. I’d drag myself out of bed, put on something spandex, strap on my clip-in shoes and grab a banana to stick in my jersey pocket. We’d draft off each other on the flats and suffer through the long uphill climbs that never seemed quite so bad when we were driving in the car. At the end of each ride, my dad would compare our statistics to the day before. Did we go faster? What was our average MPH? How many miles did we get in today? Sometimes my sister would go with us too, but she generally favored sleep over a 10 mile ride at 7 am. She was the smart one. I remember we’d watch the Tour after we got home from our bike rides and I’d marvel at how the riders could attack, or accelerate ahead of the group, on some of the largest mountains in France. I’d wonder how they could increase their speed over and over again going uphill. It seemed superhuman. One day my dad and I were out riding and were going up a modest climb, but it was near the end of our ride and I could feel the lactic acid building up. I had been drafting behind him up the hill, but all of a sudden I realized I had more. I passed him and flew up the hill, hardly feeling the incline. All I saw was the pavement flying by under my wheels. When my dad caught up to me, he started laughing. “No fair, you’re 17 and I’m 42.” That experience gave me a tiny taste of the complete rush that cycling can give you. I was in pain, but didn’t mind it. I didn’t feel anything once I started accelerating. I just knew that I could go. Tyler Hamilton’s book begins with him explaining that he has a knack for managing pain. He thrives on it. When things start getting really painful, that’s where he shines. He can push through. He likes pushing through. Cycling was a perfect sport for him. Unfortunately, despite his obvious natural talent, his best barely registered on a sliding scale of doping and performance enhancement that had taken over the sport. He began doping after he realized that he had no chance of a viable career if he didn’t. Everyone else was doing it too. Doping leveled the playing field if everyone was involved, right? Not quite.To really dumb down the science, everyone has a natural level of hematocrit (or amount of red blood cells) in their blood. EPO, the widely-used drug that enhances red blood cell production (and the one that most cyclist mean when they say they were doping), assisted in bringing up a cyclist’s hematocrit level as high as possible without passing 50—the level that the sport’s governing body deemed the maximum allowable. So, if you had a “regular” hematocrit level of 42, you could use more EPO than someone with a natural level of 47—increasing the effectiveness of the drug on your performance. I can’t emphasize to you how well the book is written. Hamilton, with the assistance of Daniel Coyle, tells an incredibly compelling story in a way that’s so earnest and so forthright that you can’t help but believe every single word that’s written. Compare this account to Lance Armstrong’s public statements regarding the doping allegations and there’s no mistaking Hamilton’s honesty counts for a lot more than Armstrong’s sometimes abrasive denials. Reading this book cast the many summers I spent watching cycling in a totally different light. Events I watched live on television that had seemed like supreme athletic achievements were described very differently by Hamilton. When cyclists described each other as doing something superhuman, they really meant “doped up.” His descriptions of Armstrong’s secretive, scientific and wholly integrated doping program that spread throughout the US Postal Team seemed like something out of a spy novel. Secret cell phones, code names and messages, an EPO messenger on a motorcycle meeting the team at predetermined spots. If it weren’t so believable and if Hamilton weren’t so brutally honest, it would almost seem too ridiculous to be true. And, maybe that’s why it went unpunished for so long. The idea that an entire sport could be dominated by superior athletes who could transform themselves into demi-gods was too good and too lucrative to pass up. A one-man breakaway over a hundred miles? Too ridiculous to be true, but damn, that’s good television. A man winning the most demanding sports contest year after year after year post-cancer? Too ridiculous to be true, but look how much money he can make us. In light of Armstrong’s decision not to contest USADA’s doping charges against him and the subsequent stripping of his titles, this book provides a powerful answer to the question many (including myself) have asked: Why would Lance Armstrong—a man near possessed by the desire to win—simply give up? He gave up because he’s guilty. It was better for him to ride off in a cloud of maybes and probablys than lose definitively the only thing cycling fans have left of him: the amazing memories of watching him win.
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