Faster

The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists

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Faster

By: Michael Hutchinson

Narrated by: Simon Vance

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About this listen

For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details and take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right - it's the doing everything right that's hard. And that's what fascinates and obsesses Michael Hutchinson.

With his usual deadpan delivery and an awareness that it's all mildly preposterous, Hutchinson looks at the things that make you faster - training, nutrition, the right psychology - and explains how they work and how what we know about them changes all the time. He looks at the things that make you slower and why they do so and how attempts to avoid them can result in serious athletes gradually painting themselves into the most peculiar lifestyle corners.

Faster is a book about why cyclists do what they do; about what the riders, their coaches, and the boffins get up to behind the scenes; and about why the whole idea of going faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all of us.

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Where does Faster rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

One of the best.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Michael Hutchinson

What about Simon Vance’s performance did you like?

Very entertaining.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

I enjoyed every part of this book, very well written and funny.