Paid to Suffer: A Year in the Life of Pro Cycling

by Neal Rogers

Going beyond the public persona of pro cycling’s riders from the legends to the middle-rankers to the ambitious unknowns, Paid to Suffer digs into the day-to-day details of their professional life. It’s all here in these dramatic personal the endless hours of training, the nerve-wracking contract and sponsor negotiations, the travel, the hotels, the pressure to perform, dealing with the press and public, the excitement of the races, and the fearsome consequences of injury. Paid to Suffer pulls no punches in this compelling look at what really goes on in professional cycling ranks.

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007