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For Paul Howard, who has ridden the entire Tour de France route during the race itself—setting off at 4 am each day to avoid being caught by the pros—riding a small mountain-bike race should hold no fear. Still, this isn’t just any mountain-bike race. This is the Tour Divide.
Running from Banff in Canada to the Mexican border, the Tour Divide is more than 2,700 miles—500 miles longer than the Tour de France. Its route along the Continental Divide goes through the heart of the Rocky Mountains and involves more than 200,000 feet of ascent—the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest seven times.
The other problem is that Howard has never owned a mountain bike—and how will training on the South Downs in southern England prepare him for sleeping rough in the Rockies? Entertaining and engaging, Eat, Sleep, Ride will appeal to avid and aspiring cyclers, as well as fans of adventure/travel narrative with a humorous twist.
Running from Banff in Canada to the Mexican border, the Tour Divide is more than 2,700 miles—500 miles longer than the Tour de France. Its route along the Continental Divide goes through the heart of the Rocky Mountains and involves more than 200,000 feet of ascent—the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest seven times.
The other problem is that Howard has never owned a mountain bike—and how will training on the South Downs in southern England prepare him for sleeping rough in the Rockies? Entertaining and engaging, Eat, Sleep, Ride will appeal to avid and aspiring cyclers, as well as fans of adventure/travel narrative with a humorous twist.
Price: $13.99
Pages: 256
Publisher: Greystone Books
Imprint: Greystone Books
Publication Date:
15 February 2011
ISBN: 9781553658184
Format: eBook
"Tongue in cheek, [Paul Howard] endures the nastiest of weather and the loneliest of trails. He braves bears, mountain lions, moose, wolves, coyotes, all manner of insects and snakes, and the occasional whiskey drinking cowboy, all without losing his sense of humor. The narrative chronicles his twenty-eight day ride to the finish line and reads like a Monty Python script with its descriptions of places like Togwotee Pass, Swatch Range, and the infamous badlands of El Malpais. No, Howard doesn't win the race. But, he lives to tell us about it."--Sacramento Book Review, Aug 29, 2011
Paul Howard's first book, Riding High, was shortlisted for the National Sporting Club’s Best New Sports Writer prize, while his account of Jacques Anquetil's life, Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape, was shortlisted in the Biography of the Year category at the British Sports Book Awards.
Acknowledgements
Sussex
Chapter 1 Seduction
Chapter 2 A series of unfortunate events
Canada
Chapter 3 The bear necessities
Chapter 4 A horseshoe for luck
Chapter 5 Bringing up the rear
Chapter 6 Where the wild things are
Montana
Chapter 7 Breakfast with Dolly Parton
Chapter 8 Swan Lake
Chapter 9 A river runs through it
Chapter 10 Three kinds of psychopath
Chapter 11 Signs of life
Chapter 12 Singing in the rain
Chapter 13 Here’s mud in your eye
Chapter 14 This is not Peru
Chapter 15 Leaving Montana
Idaho and Wyoming
Chapter 16 No room at the inn
Chapter 17 Down the Green River
Chapter 18 Encounter with a cowboy
Chapter 19 Across the Basin
Chapter 20 Saved by a siren
Colorado
Chapter 21 Moscow calling
Chapter 22 Eat, sleep and be grumpy
Chapter 23 I wandered lonely as a cloud
Chapter 24 Cannibal adventure!
Chapter 25 It’s all downhill from here
New Mexico
Chapter 26 Independence Day
Chapter 27 Through the rainbow
Chapter 28 Losing my innocence in Wal-Mart
Chapter 29 Pie Town
Chapter 30 Geronimo!
Chapter 31 The fall
Chapter 32 Satisfaction
Sussex
Chapter 1 Seduction
Chapter 2 A series of unfortunate events
Canada
Chapter 3 The bear necessities
Chapter 4 A horseshoe for luck
Chapter 5 Bringing up the rear
Chapter 6 Where the wild things are
Montana
Chapter 7 Breakfast with Dolly Parton
Chapter 8 Swan Lake
Chapter 9 A river runs through it
Chapter 10 Three kinds of psychopath
Chapter 11 Signs of life
Chapter 12 Singing in the rain
Chapter 13 Here’s mud in your eye
Chapter 14 This is not Peru
Chapter 15 Leaving Montana
Idaho and Wyoming
Chapter 16 No room at the inn
Chapter 17 Down the Green River
Chapter 18 Encounter with a cowboy
Chapter 19 Across the Basin
Chapter 20 Saved by a siren
Colorado
Chapter 21 Moscow calling
Chapter 22 Eat, sleep and be grumpy
Chapter 23 I wandered lonely as a cloud
Chapter 24 Cannibal adventure!
Chapter 25 It’s all downhill from here
New Mexico
Chapter 26 Independence Day
Chapter 27 Through the rainbow
Chapter 28 Losing my innocence in Wal-Mart
Chapter 29 Pie Town
Chapter 30 Geronimo!
Chapter 31 The fall
Chapter 32 Satisfaction