Great Rides According to G, Geraint Thomas
Great Rides According to G, Geraint Thomas
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Great Rides According to G

Author: Geraint Thomas

Narrator: Joe Leat

Unabridged: 4 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 10/26/2023


Synopsis

A bespoke collection of the best bike adventures from Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas's career

Across the UK, into Europe and further afield, these are the training rides, races and journeys closest to his heart. From one-day classics in the Peak District and Snowdonia to the rolling roads of Tuscany and the wide-open vistas of New Zealand's South Island, these are the routes you'll want to ride alongside Britain's favourite cycling superstar.

We ride out with him from his winter home in the south of France, and around his old Tuscan training base as a GB Olympic hopeful at the very start of his career. We take in the valley roads of the Tour de Suisse (overall winner, 2022), and the sinuous coastal roads of Milan - San Remo.

We go long in Mallorca and bounce along the short cobbled secteurs of Belgium; we take in the vineyards around Adelaide and the bright blue skies of southern California.

And we have guest rides too: from world champion Remco Evenepoel and his favourite winter training ride in Calpe, Spain; around Yorkshire, with Olympic mountain bike champion, world cyclo-cross champion and newly crowned winner of Strade Bianche, Tom Pidcock; in the wilds of western Ireland from champion sprinter Sam Bennett.

Twenty rides, twenty adventures you'll never forget.

(P) 2024 Quercus Editions Limited

About Geraint Thomas

Geraint Thomas OBE is the winner of the 2018 Tour de France, a double Olympic gold medallist and multiple world champion who has been an indispensable part of Team INEOS since its inception. A Tour de France veteran, he had both completed the entire race with a fractured pelvis and been essential in piloting Chris Froome to the yellow jersey multiple times before his own win. One of the most popular men in the peloton, he has watched and contributed from the inside as British cycling has been transformed over the past decade. In 2014 he won Commonwealth road race gold in Glasgow and was voted BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year. In 2015 he became the first British rider to win the E3 Harelbeke: in 2016 he won Paris-Nice and in early 2018 won the Criterium du Dauphine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen on January 25, 2024

Didn't enjoy this book felt it was boring overall......more

Goodreads review by Bryn on January 08, 2024

It was alright.......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on April 01, 2024

Nice addition to the other books in G’s cycling collection. However if I’ve got any complaints… how hard would it have been for the publishers to add a map or route plan page for each ride that’s discussed?......more

Goodreads review by Philippa on May 31, 2024

Great book for any cyclist who wants to follow the routes of the professionals (and eat great food and regularly stop for coffee, anywhere in the world) Tour de France winner, Welshman Geraint Thomas, has a lovely and amusing writing style and, as a cyclist myself, really does make the individual ro......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on April 03, 2024

Despite the large print it still took me over 3 months to read! From the land of my fathers, across the seas and back again this is an easy read of inspiring bike rides from around the world. Enough detail to get you to reach for a map or equivalent software to plot your adventure without being over......more