Bicycle Road Racing
This is an iconic book, i have paged through my worn out copy of this book regularly for 20 years. It is very dated in some aspects yet a lot of the training theory is still excellent. If you don’t have a power meter then this is probably one of the best books available as the training is based around perceived effort, not power. This is a back-to-basics guide to training. It is also a bit of a walk down memory lane as you see pictures of American cycling icons before they were icons, the chapter on stretching has to been seen to be believed. The book has been out of print for years, though you can find a used copy for under 10 bucks online, or roll by one of your buddies house’s and poke around their bookshelves and dig one up. Almost everyone that has ridden for more than 20 years has a copy laying around somewhere collecting dust. Truth be told, I still bust mine out and page through it occasionally!
