I've read just about every cycling and training literature that has come out in the last twenty years. But if I had to pick a book that got me the most, it's this title.
Just published in the third edition, Matt Fitzgerald uses numerous practical examples to show what is really important in endurance sports in addition to physical form in order to finish at the top. Or how athletes like to get in their own way, only to then make a film-ready blunder. Winning is mostly a matter of the mind.
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