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Le Loop: How to Cycle the Tour de France
Le Loop is a guidebook for success and exhilarating adventure as one ordinary man tackles the world's toughest bike race.
Ceri Stone is an ordinary guy. He wanted to do something extraordinary just once in his life. This book is the exhilarating story of that adventure. He lays out a template for personal success, garnered from some rich life experience, and he puts his theories to the test by cycling Le Loop. Le Loop is an annual charitable event where riders cycle the route of the Tour de France one week before the pros.
This is an inspiring adventure for athletes of all levels that proves we can achieve our wildest dreams and laugh along the way. Much like the tour itself, there are extreme highs and lows, and Ceri faces them with a searingly honest sense of reflection and a trivial sense of humor. This story is warm, empowering and leaves you itching to get off your sofa - but with a template to succeed at the same time.
Join Ceri in his quest to live a life less ordinary.
Ceri Stone is an ordinary guy. He wanted to do something extraordinary just once in his life. This book is the exhilarating story of that adventure. He lays out a template for personal success, garnered from some rich life experience, and he puts his theories to the test by cycling Le Loop. Le Loop is an annual charitable event where riders cycle the route of the Tour de France one week before the pros.
This is an inspiring adventure for athletes of all levels that proves we can achieve our wildest dreams and laugh along the way. Much like the tour itself, there are extreme highs and lows, and Ceri faces them with a searingly honest sense of reflection and a trivial sense of humor. This story is warm, empowering and leaves you itching to get off your sofa - but with a template to succeed at the same time.
Join Ceri in his quest to live a life less ordinary.
352 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2023
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June 22, 2022
I've read a book by Ceri Stone before, "An Indian Summer", which I really enjoyed. That's why I picked up this book by him.
What an altogether different book.This serves somewhat as a journal of the author's attempt to cycle the circuit of the Tour de France.
In summary, it's excellent.
But further detail is required: It is funny in places, but there are also some sad moments. It's quite thrilling in some parts too. It's obviously the biggest challenge the author has undertaken. His writing made me feel sometimes that I was cycling the journey with him.
I had no prior knowledge of the Tour, nor any real interest, so when a book turns around one's way of thinking and helps a new interest to be discovered, it has surely done its job.
I look forward to the author's next book. Indian Summer and Le Loop are so different - God only knows what he'll come up with next.
I understand the author is a fellow Welshman:
Diolch o galon, Ceri. Llyfr gwych! Llongyfarchiadau.
What an altogether different book.This serves somewhat as a journal of the author's attempt to cycle the circuit of the Tour de France.
In summary, it's excellent.
But further detail is required: It is funny in places, but there are also some sad moments. It's quite thrilling in some parts too. It's obviously the biggest challenge the author has undertaken. His writing made me feel sometimes that I was cycling the journey with him.
I had no prior knowledge of the Tour, nor any real interest, so when a book turns around one's way of thinking and helps a new interest to be discovered, it has surely done its job.
I look forward to the author's next book. Indian Summer and Le Loop are so different - God only knows what he'll come up with next.
I understand the author is a fellow Welshman:
Diolch o galon, Ceri. Llyfr gwych! Llongyfarchiadau.
June 27, 2022
Excellent book. This is a tale of sporting adventure and a template on how to succeed all in one seriously engrossing book. It is humorous, dramatic and above all inspiring. Very easy to read and I couldn't put it down.
August 28, 2023
Brilliant book. Very inspirational, humorous and engaging. You don't need to be a cyclist to read this book, but it may leave you itching to ride your bike.
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