Book description
The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting,
adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for
men who are time-poor but want the best. Lives Less Ordinary
drops you into extreme first-hand accounts of human experience,
whether that's the adrenaline-pumping heights of professional sport,
the brutality of the modern battlefield, the casual violence of the
criminal world, the mind-blowing frontiers of science, or the excesses
of rock 'n' roll, high finance and Hollywood. Lives Less
Ordinary also brings you some of the finest comic voices around,
on every subject from toilet etiquette to Paul Gascoigne.
With more Tour de France stage wins than any other Brit, Mark
Cavendish is one of the most explosive sprint cyclists that has ever
graced road racing. This is his heart-pumping account from the saddle
of what it takes in body and mind to win one of the sport's most
legendary classics - the 298 kilometre Milan-San Remo.
This digital bite has been extracted from Mark Cavendish's riveting
book Boy Racer.
Born and raised on the Isle of Man, Mark Cavendish became a world
track champion as a teenager in 2005, a Commonwealth Games gold
medallist a year later and in 2008 regained his world title in
partnership with Bradley Wiggins. Having now switched his focus to the
more glamorous world of road cycling, Mark is widely regarded as the
most exciting and charismatic young rider to grace the sport in years, a
status he confirmed with his fantastic record-breaking performance in
the 2009 Tour de France. Mark rides for Team Columbia and lives on the
Isle of Man.
