Endurance: How to Cycle Further

by Mark Beaumont

Genres: Cycling

Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Mark Beaumont is a broadcaster who has been adventuring since an early age. When not travelling on TV projects and expeditions he is often speaking at events, involved in various charity and educational work, book writing or in training.

Mark was first inspired to go on expedition at the age of 12 after reading in a local newspaper about a cycle from John O’Groats to Lands End. For the next decade Mark’s ambitions and experience developed until after leaving University he set out to make a career in broadcasting and adventure.

Mark’s public speaking takes him to many public theatre events as well as businesses and organisations in the UK and abroad. Please get in touch to enquire about availability.

Reviews

[Radu Giurgiu · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really appreciate Mark and thoroughly enjoyed the two-part documentary on his incredible 80 days around the world feat. Although I enjoyed the book and it's a fast, easy read, it seemed to me like a series of introductions. Just scratching the surface but not really having any meat to it.

In the preface, Mark says that the editor cut a lot out of the book because he should not ask his readers the same type of reading endurance as the cycling one he advises about. I'm afraid I have to disagree. I think many of the readers of this book (and reviews are strong arguments) would have read a longer, more detailed book about how to cycle further. It's a pity that Mark's knowledge has been diluted so much for fear of not selling well.

Still, there is plenty of useful information for beginner cyclists and a good start before planning to engage in endurance sports.

[Andrej · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not that bad book but it could be much better. First, the pictures (printed on every other page) could be replaced with some meaningful text, I believe that the authors would be able to produce it. If this book was published properly with the current amount of text, it would be probably a 60-pages brouchure. Second, the book is formated like a magazine which makes it look super nice but it's very distrative and it doesn't allow you to immerse into the text. In overall, I think more effort went into marketing and making it fancy than into the content itself. Guys, I hope you can do better than this!

[Mark Bidwell · Rating 2 out of 5]

A nice looking book which is full of largely unnecessary, glossy pictures. Had they used the space to expand on the content and dig more into some key topics ( « a huge amount of endurance is about logistics and psychology » and yet only a quarter of the book is devoted to these topics), the book would be greatly enhanced. More tales of people rowing, running, walking around the world and their mistakes and recovery strategies would be a real improvement.

[Levas · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is beautifully published, but truly lacks proper content. Authors touch various topics throughout the book, but never go in depth to any. There are useful tips like certain training drills that are discussed in a bit more detail, but overall it did not do the job. Definitely, maybe if you want to cycle 50 miles and more, it's best to train and not read books, but I'm not sure what was the planned audience for this book. Professional or semi-pro riders won't find anything useful, newbies who just like to cycle from time to time won't get much either because there is, for example, no "find sponsor" item in my to do list. However, pictures are nice and it's a cool book to have on the shelf.

[Marcus Goncalves · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall, great book, but superficial, more for beginners. I loved the full page pictures in at least every other page. But more depth could have been shared using at least half of them, or not spacing out the text so much. In other words, it is a book that could be condensed into one third of its size (or been much more complete).

[Dgclingeryahoo.Com · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tough one to rate. The book is well organized, the photos good, the content wide, but not deep anywhere. I wanted to like it, and I read it quickly but really there wasn't anything there I didn't already know.

[Emil Gigov · Rating 3 out of 5]

The idea behind the book is good and the authors have the credibility to deliver an authoritative text. Disappointingly, they only touch on each topic without providing any depth.

[Kirsteen Campbell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice book but not in depth practical learning provided

[Stefano · Rating 4 out of 5]

I could have used a bit more detail here and there, but overall a good, all-encompassing guide to cycle further from an endurance legend

[Alex Stuart · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm never going to take all the advice on board so dipped in and out. Some good insights. Nice pictures.