Draft Animals: Living the Pro Cycling Dream by Phil GaimonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Gaimon explains how he reached the second tier of bicycle racers but didn’t quite reach the top. His stories are humorous, covering his life and his racing over a four year period, with expected anecdotes and plenty of behind-the-scenes looks at the best racers of our time, their sponsors and support staff. Gaimon’s story is personal and first-person. You learn as much about what makes him tick as about the racing crowd. And he writes about the business of bicycle racing on big European teams as well as smaller North American teams, but from his perspective, quite a ways down the totem pole. I enjoyed most of the humor in his voice, which wavered between self-deprecating and just a bit creepy when focused on drug use. And there’s a lot of that covered here. Gaimon has opinions on performance enhancing drug use, and this is his soapbox. And he likes to name names. But you also see some growth here, as he spends time with performance drug users who have been punished. A very human story.
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