Waterstones Swim, Bike, Run
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Price: £10.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Swim, Bike, Run - The ultimate guide to triathlon by Olympics heroes Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee A Number One Bestseller This is the story of how two skinny lads from west Yorkshire became the best triathletes in the world. Meet the Brownlees: Olympic Champion Alistair, World Champion Jonny. Brothers, training partners, rivals. They have obliterated the competition and set new standards for swimming, biking and running. In this revealing, often very funny book they take us inside their world. It's both a riveting story of the races, the success and the brotherly rivalry, as well as a guide to triathlon with sections on how to swim, bike and run and packed with advice on nutrition, injury, and mental approach. This book will appeal to readers of cycling and running books like Mark Cavendish's Boy Racer and Running with the Kenyans, as well as fans of Chrissie Wellington's A Life Without Limits and Andy Beckett's Can't Swim, Can't Bike, Can't Run.' Sport has two new heroes: a couple of nice lads from Yorkshire' The Times Alistair Brownlee, 24, is a British triathlete from Yorkshire. He is the reigning Olympic champion, a back-to-back European champion and a two-time World champion. Jonathan Brownlee, 22, is also a British triathlete from Yorkshire. He is the reigning World Champion, a two-time World Sprint champion and an Olympic bronze medalist.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780241965849
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780241965849
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Author: Fulltopuk
Rating: 5
Review: Great book proving that sporting greatness can be achieved on their own terms
Author: K. G. A. Alavi
Rating: 4
Review: A very good book/training manual. I would not call this really an autobiography simply because apart from Alistair and Jonathan's early years and start in Triathlons there is very little on their personal lives. However with them both being so young and so much of their time is taken up by their training it does not really leave much time for a social life. 2/3 of the things of the book are done brilliantly. The tip and training secrets are great. The Brownlee brothers inside the race commentary is amazing. The only thing that was just ok is the book just did not grip me the way some other sports autobiographies did. This could be because simply because these boys train so hard, and love what they do, so the racing is almost a forgone conclusion. Don't get me wrong the races they do talk are described excellently. However they is not enough of their races in the book. This is just the choice made by the authors to concentrate on the training, as this is where races are really won and lost. As important as this is it is not the most exciting part. From a training point of view and if look at what it takes physically, mentally and drive you need to succeed at the elite level you could not find a better book, but I wish it was another 100 pages longer so they could talk more about the races as well.
