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Draft Animals: Living the Pro Cycling Dream (Once in a While)
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From the author of the cult favorite Pro Cycling on $10 a Day and Ask a Pro, the story of one man’s quest to realize his childhood dream, and what happened when he actually did it.
 
Like countless other kids, Phil Gaimon grew up dreaming of being a professional athlete. But unlike countless other kids, he actually pulled it off. After years of amateur races, hard training, living out of a suitcase, and never taking “no” for an answer, he finally achieved his goal and signed a contract to race professionally on one of the best teams in the world.
Now, Gaimon pulls back the curtain on the WorldTour, cycling’s highest level. He takes readers along for his seasons in Europe, covering everything from rabid, water-bottle-stealing Belgian fans, to contract renewals, to riding in poisonous smog, to making friends in a sport plagued by doping. Draft Animals reveals a story as much about bike racing as it is about the never-ending ladder of achieving goals, failure, and finding happiness if you land somewhere in-between.
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Now, Gaimon pulls back the curtain on the WorldTour, cycling’s highest level. He takes readers along for his seasons in Europe, covering everything from rabid, water-bottle-stealing Belgian fans, to contract renewals, to riding in poisonous smog, to making friends in a sport plagued by doping. Draft Animals reveals a story as much about bike racing as it is about the never-ending ladder of achieving goals, failure, and finding happiness if you land somewhere in-between.
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        The odds of becoming a professional athlete in any sport are slim. For non-mainstream sports like cycling, the challenges of eking out a living are often insurmountable. In this follow-up to Pro Cycling on $10 a Day (2014), Gaimon shares his experiences as a professional from 2009 to 2016, competing on the WorldTour circuit, and wrestling to achieve personal goals while racing as a domestique (a role player charged with helping the team and leader cross the finish line first). Gaimon, who has a robust social-media following, is resolute about competing as a drug-free bike racer, even tattooing clean on his arm. Footnotes throughout the book reflect his sense of humor, and he does not shrink from his opinions on the dopers and haters (Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie). He shares the emotional roller coaster of long-distance relationships and the stresses of securing contracts with race teams. Highly recommended for anyone interested in cycling, this is a candid account from an outspoken cyclist who pursued his career with passion, a sense of humor, and integrity.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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Now, Gaimon pulls back the curtain on the WorldTour, cycling’s highest level. He takes readers along for his seasons in Europe, covering everything from rabid, water-bottle-stealing Belgian fans, to contract renewals, to riding in poisonous smog, to making friends in a sport plagued by doping. Draft Animals reveals a story as much about bike racing as...
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