The Graeme Obree autobiography is out. I bought it yesterday and finished it early this morning. Fascinating, harrowing, triumphant and bleak. One of the most honest and insightful accounts of a cycling champion that I've ever read.
I knew something of his problems, but the book highlights the strakness of the condition and how it influenced his career and blighted his life.
Maybe I'm biased as I'm from the same part of the world and know a lot of the characters in the book, but isn't Obree's one of the most incredible cycling stories ever?
Steve McGinty <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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The Graeme Obree autobiography is out. I bought it yesterday and finished it early this morning. Fascinating, harrowing, triumphant and bleak. One of the most honest and insightful accounts of a cycling champion that I've ever read.
I knew something of his problems, but the book highlights the strakness of the condition and how it influenced his career and blighted his life.
Maybe I'm biased as I'm from the same part of the world and know a lot of the characters in the book, but isn't Obree's one of the most incredible cycling stories ever?
Besides some obscure Individual Pursuit stuff from 10 years ago and the Hour Record/Superman thing, what are Obree's palmares?
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Maybe I'm biased as I'm from the same part of the world and know a lot of the characters in the book, but isn't Obree's one of the most incredible cycling stories ever?
Besides some obscure Individual Pursuit stuff from 10 years ago and the Hour Record/Superman thing, what are Obree's palmares?
-Ken
It is his concepts and thought processes countering conventional wisdom that are so intriguing.
Besides some obscure Individual Pursuit stuff from 10 years ago and the Hour Record/Superman thing, what are Obree's palmares?
He won virtually every individual time trial in Scotland that he entered, but never a major road race.
UK National 50-mile TT champ 1993, UK National 25-mile TT champ (1993?), UK 10-mile record holder (1993-1996) with 18:27, National 10-mile TT champ 1988-1992.
Of course you know that when he broke the World record in Hamar, it was the day after his original attempt, which marginally failed...
Steve McGinty <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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The Graeme Obree autobiography is out. I bought it yesterday and finished it early this morning. Fascinating, harrowing, triumphant and bleak. One of the most honest and insightful accounts of a cycling champion that I've ever read.
I knew something of his problems, but the book highlights the strakness of the condition and how it influenced his career and blighted his life.
Maybe I'm biased as I'm from the same part of the world and know a lot of the characters in the book, but isn't Obree's one of the most incredible cycling stories ever?
Besides some obscure Individual Pursuit stuff from 10 years ago and the Hour Record/Superman thing, what are Obree's palmares?
The point about Obree is that he has no palmares - he came from total obscurity (from an international point of view) to break Moser's Hour Record. Then went on to beat the Olympic Champion (Boardman) in the World Pursuit Championship.
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It is his concepts and thought processes countering conventional wisdom that are so intriguing.
Google "Obree" with Shaun Wallace as author.
Sorry 'bout that. Google "Obree" with GBShaun as author.
Shaun plays a pretty crucial role in the story. At the Atlanta Olympics Graeme's illness is so bad he climbs onto his room's window ledge to consider whether the drop will kill him. Shaun, his room mate comes in and asks him what he's doing - "Just getting some air" says Graeme, and his first suicide attempt is aborted.
