Mountain Bike Fitness Training Book

Let me sum up this book for you: The author hates everything about cycling except going downhill, and spends the entire book complaining about it. Nearly every page includes some parenthetical comment about how she'd rather be eating/watching TV/being sedentary than doing any sort of exertion. It's the same joke over and over. The phrase "butt soreness" appears more than any other word(s) aside perhaps from our friend "the". Motivated yet?

The advice is about as superficial as reading the titles of a Google search result, and the only chuckles come from the journal entries that detail her misadventures -- and are great examples of what NOT to do when you ride a race. The fact that she doesn't actually complete either of the centuries she starts (she ends up riding a 100-mile route of her own creation) should be reason enough to dismiss this as a guide. In fact, in chronicling her personal experiences, Ms. Dais doesn't even follow her own advice, and without the slightest hint of irony.

If you must, read only the journal-entry pages and enjoy the schadenfruede, but please don't pick this up expecting any sort of substantive guidance. Unless, that is, you need someone to tell you how to put together a workout playlist on your ipod -- but you really shouldn't one using while cycling anyway.