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Full Gas Forever
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 28 August 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
'What Ed Clancy doesn't know about cycling isn't worth knowing' – Sir Chris Hoy
'Unless you’ve worked out how to stop time, you’re going to need this book' – Ned Boulting
‘A timely reminder that age is no reason to slow down’ – Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas
AN EXPERT GUIDE FOR ROAD CYCLISTS LOOKING TO DEFY THE YEARS AND RIDE FASTER AND FURTHER
Getting older does not mean getting slower. Improving your performance is achievable despite the advance of the years. If you are a midlife rider who wants to ride faster and for longer, Full Gas Forever provides the complete guide.
Ed Clancy OBE, a three-time Olympic gold-medal winning cyclist and fitness writer, flexibility expert and midlife cyclist Lexie Williamson, are the ideal people to guide you through the strategies, training, benefits and pitfalls of going full-gas in your fourth or fifth decade. Mixing anecdotes, insights and personal experiences from their own sporting lives, you will find practical guidance on the following:
· exercises to enable riders to work on this area of fitness.
· off-bike preparation
· ride fuelling through a nutritionally focused diet
· recovery strategies
· injury prevention as well as advice on avoiding overtraining.
· dealing with injuries and adapting your training plan accordingly
· specifically designed programmes to smash the sprints and outlast the others in a test of endurance.
Whether you're looking to scale those peaks, smash those sprints or outlast the others in a test of endurance, this book shows just how it can be done.
Critics Review
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What Ed Clancy doesn’t know about cycling isn’t worth knowing
Sir Chris Hoy
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Unless you’ve worked out how to stop time, you’re going to need this book
Ned Boulting
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Getting older doesn't mean the end of your cycling. Not even close. Ed Clancy and Lexie Williamson show you how to optimize training to keep it going – and even ride further and faster
Joe Friel
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A timely reminder that age is no reason to slow down
Geraint Thomas
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If the mind is willing but the legs are asking questions, this book has the answers!
Carlton Kirby
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A book that will doubtless help others get as much out of this marvellous machine as Ed Clancy does
Chris Boardman
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Brilliant advice, light-hearted and insightful. A valuable read from a multiple Olympic Champion (and total legend!)
Victoria Pendleton
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[From] Legendary British Cyclist Ed Clancy [the book is] especially to help cyclists who have a few miles on the clock … do have a look
Adrian Chiles
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Details
- Author
- Ed Clancy and Lexie Williamson
- Narrator
- Lexie Williamson, Oliver Hembrough
- Duration
- 5 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 August 2025
- ISBN
- 9781399420211
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Cycling: general and touring, Fitness and diet, Coping with / advice about ageing
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Full Gas Forever: A 40+ Cyclist's Guide to Riding Faster and Further by Ed Clancy and Lexie Williamson read by Lexie Williamson and Oliver Hembrough'What Ed Clancy doesn't know about cycling isn't worth knowing' – Sir Chris Hoy'Unless you’ve worked out how to stop time, you’re going to need this book' – Ned Boulting‘A timely reminder that age is no reason to slow down’ – Tour de France winner Geraint ThomasAN EXPERT GUIDE FOR ROAD CYCLISTS LOOKING TO DEFY THE YEARS AND RIDE FASTER AND FURTHERGetting older does not mean getting slower. Improving your performance is achievable despite the advance of the years. If you are a midlife rider who wants to ride faster and for longer, Full Gas Forever provides the complete guide.Ed Clancy OBE, a three-time Olympic gold-medal winning cyclist and fitness writer, flexibility expert and midlife cyclist Lexie Williamson, are the ideal people to guide you through the strategies, training, benefits and pitfalls of going full-gas in your fourth or fifth decade. Mixing anecdotes, insights and personal experiences from their own sporting lives, you will find practical guidance on the following:· exercises to enable riders to work on this area of fitness.· off-bike preparation· ride fuelling through a nutritionally focused diet· recovery strategies· injury prevention as well as advice on avoiding overtraining.· dealing with injuries and adapting your training plan accordingly· specifically designed programmes to smash the sprints and outlast the others in a test of endurance.Whether you're looking to scale those peaks, smash those sprints or outlast the others in a test of endurance, this book shows just how it can be done.
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