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This beautifully written memoir is sure to appeal to all cyclists. It contains some of the best writing on competitive cycling—from the cyclist's viewpoint—ever published.
Bruno Schull enters the California amateur racing circuit, and in the course of one long season climbs from the lowest ranking to near the top. Like the film Breaking Away, this is the story of an unknown cyclist striving for greatness. Bruno Schull's story covers a dozen local races, paralleled by his fixation on the Tour de France on TV. He captures the spirit of cycling at its highest levels, and the more peculiar, unsung glories of amateur racing. Funny, smart, inspiring, elegant—and full of great cycling.
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Mike Westen
reviewed The Long Season: One Year of Bicycle Road Racing in California on January 13, 2016
The Long Season
THE LONG SEASON b Bruno Schull is often advertised as an amateur's view of bicycle racing. However the book goes further than that by juxtaposing his training and racing against the 1995 professional season in Europe. It was the year that Miguel Indurain won his fifth and final tour victory and the year Fabio Casartelli died on the tour.
Schull tells of his training in the bay area of California with 4 close friends, his classes at UC Berkeley, his girlfriend and parents who are tired of his obsessive cycling. There are also sections on his training in Italy, his suspicions of the pros using drugs, his tactics during racing and deadly crashes. While all of this sounds like it should be interesting, the tone of the book is flat and joyless. Even as a cyclist and racing fan, I wanted to tell him to give up some of the cycling and live a little.
For amateur racing, of the books that I have read so far I would recommend ROADIE: THE MISUNDERSTOOD WORLD OF A BIKE RACER by Jamie Smith and THE GAMES WERE COMING by Michael Anthony over this book. .
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