May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 39m
English

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
—Lance Armstrong
I am a cycling fan. For years, I enjoyed grinding up and down hills and mountains on a road bike in the Pacific Northwest. My wife and I became fans of Lance Armstrong when he donned the rainbow jersey after winning the cycling World Championships in Oslo, Norway, in 1993. This was well before he won his first Tour de France in 1999. Our oldest son was born in 1998, and we almost named him after Lance—thank goodness, we didn’t. I shudder to think of poor “Lance Rossman.” What a dark and complex legacy to carry around ...
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