Cyclosportive
Chris Sidwells writes about new cycling craze for A&C Black
'Cyclosportive' is a training manual aimed at people who want to take part in one of that fastest growing sports events in the world. Cyclosportives are long distance cycling challenges, often run on the same roads as famous professional bike races such as the Tour de France, and they are presently undergoing a boom similar in size to the great city Marathon boom of the eighties and nineties. The philosophy of cyclosportive events is the same as mass-participation Marathons, they are a challenge for anyone to complete, and a race in which the really keen can set a time they can compare with their age-group participants or allcomers in the event. 'Cyclosportive' is the first book that is specifically designed to help people take part in their first cyclosportive event, and to assist more experienced participants to improve their performance.