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Riding Through The Storm: My Fight Back to Fitness on the Tour de France: My Fight Back to Fitness on the Tour De France | 
 enlarge | Author: Geoff Thomas
Publisher: Orion
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 127972
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0752893432
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780752893433
ASIN: 0752893432
Publication Date: June 12, 2008
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 5 Stars for Geoff / 2 for the book January 4, 2008
J. Skinner (Norwich. United Kingdom)
Geoff Thomas is without doubt an inspirational character and his ride of the Tour de France route is a superhuman effort. Raising money for cancer and aiding his recovery are feats of pure heroics.
I picked up the book expecting it to be a focus on the ride and the battle against leukemia. It's a mixed bag and I was left with the feeling that it tried to cram to much into too few pages, it was autobiography, ride highlights vs. low points and the cancer battle story.
For me it had too much emphasis on the football, the missed chip against France is an obvious and overstated sore point and in places the narrative repeats itself or contradicts itself in a short space. On meeting Graham Taylor again at Wolves, we are told that he grinned as if to say we meet again Geoff, a few pages later we are told that when they met again Graham Taylor said ahh we meet again. I suppose the editing of the book lets it down.
There are great moments concerning the ride such as when the fans emerge from their camper vans late in the night to cheer the riders up the final climb of the day. You get a sense of the suffering endured everyday and I suppose that the ride is one long punishment with a few noteworthy events occuring every other day.
Just to ride one stage of the Tour is a great achievment for an experienced rider but for Geoff and the team to do it after only six months of cycling and training is a hats-off colossal thing - good for you Geoff.
 Awe-inspiring June 12, 2007
L. Callaghan (Linlithgow, UK)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book will appeal to everyone, whether you are a fan of cycling, football, or inspirational stories about battling cancer. Personally I am not a football fan, so my first real "introduction" to Geoff Thomas was seeing an interview conducted throughout the ITV coverage of the 2005 Tour De France. Having read all of the Lance Armstrong autobiographies, I was interested to see Geoff's story compared - and I was equally as inspired by this book.
Each chapter is titled after the corresponding stage of his 2005 Tour and contains a delicate balance of anecdotes about the stage, his football career, his battle against Leukaemia and some of the fellow sufferers he has met since undergoing treatment - done in such a way that it did not make me want to put the book down, or fast forward the discussion of your football career.
I see that Geoff is undertaking another Tour this year and he will certainly be getting my backing again this time round, especially after reading this... Chapeau Geoff!!
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