Björn recenserade The Rider av Tim Krabbe
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4 stjärnor
I'm a keen cyclist, but I've always said that I don't get the point of competitive cycling. Putting yourself through the harshest training regimen of any elite sport, just to cycle past some of the most beautiful landscapes on the planet too fast and too focused to even take the time to appreciate them.
Reading Krabbé, a chess player who suddenly decided to switch to amateur cycle championships at 30 years old, I'm still not convinced it's for me, but I get it. Much like Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running it's that rare beast, a book about sports written by someone who can actually write about something beyond split times and results, but where Murakami uses it as an excuse to write a memoir, Krabbé mostly sticks to that one race in 1977, kilometre by kilometre, with all the thoughts it brings along with it. …
I'm a keen cyclist, but I've always said that I don't get the point of competitive cycling. Putting yourself through the harshest training regimen of any elite sport, just to cycle past some of the most beautiful landscapes on the planet too fast and too focused to even take the time to appreciate them.
Reading Krabbé, a chess player who suddenly decided to switch to amateur cycle championships at 30 years old, I'm still not convinced it's for me, but I get it. Much like Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running it's that rare beast, a book about sports written by someone who can actually write about something beyond split times and results, but where Murakami uses it as an excuse to write a memoir, Krabbé mostly sticks to that one race in 1977, kilometre by kilometre, with all the thoughts it brings along with it. He and his fellow cyclists - competitors but also colleagues, because nobody can run a race on their own - battle against each other and their own limits... Krabbé captures every inch of the pain, but also the elation, the physical and psychological limits that are left in the dust.
4.5/5.
Crevaison sur les pavés
Le vélo vite réparé
Le peloton est regroupé
Camarades et amitié