Velopress: 80 books
A Dog in a Hat
An American Bike Racer's Story of Mud, Drugs, Blood, Betrayal, and Beauty in Belgium
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
A Dog in a Hat is the remarkable story of Joe Parkin. In 1987, Parkin left the comforts of home to become a bike racer in Belgium, the hardest place in the world to be a bike racer. As one of the first American pros in Europe, Parkin was what the Belgians call “a dog with a hat on” — something...
Trizophrenia
Inside the Minds of a Triathlete
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Life is better when you're a triathlete. That is what author and triathlete Jef Mallett believes, and millions of triathletes around the world agree.
Trizophrenia: Inside the Minds of the Triathlete, by nationally syndicated illustrator and veteran triathlete Jef Mallett, offers up the first...
by Peter Sagan
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Peter Sagan, at just 29 years of age, is already one of cycling’s greatest riders of all time. With six Tour de France points jersey victories, three road race world championships, the 2018 Paris-Roubaix, and multiple spring classics among Sagan’s palmares, the world of cycling agrees that this...
Descent
My Epic Fall from Cycling Superstardom to Doping Dead End
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The Award-Winning, International Best-Seller
“I have success, money, women. I’ve been lionized by the public and the press. The world is at my feet. I’ve spread my wings and here I am, soaring above everything and everyone. But in reality, the descent has already begun.”
At age...
Ask a Pro
Deep Thoughts and Unreliable Advice from America's Foremost Cycling Sage
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Author writes the popular "Ask a Pro" column for Velo magazine (45,000 paid circ)
Cycling fans have enjoyed following Gaimon’s career as he rose through the ranks onto the ProTour circuit, lost his contract, and once again rode his way back into the Big Leagues.
A regular Joe enters an arcane...
Racing Weight Quick Start Guide
A 4-Week Weight-Loss Plan for Endurance Athletes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
If you’re like most endurance athletes, you’re concerned about your weight. You know that every extra pound slows you down.
Matt Fitzgerald’s Racing Weight Quick Start Guide applies all the principles of his best-selling book Racing Weight in a detailed set of weight-loss training plans....
Running Rewired
Reinvent Your Run for Stability, Strength, and Speed
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Running is America's favorite outdoor sport. 51 million Americans ran in 2014 including 1 in 6 adults (33 million). Runners run 80 days per year, on average.
Competitive running is one of the most popular sports in America, with all-time record highs of 19 million runners finishing a running...
American Pro
The True Story of Bike Racing in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Like Phil Gaimon’s best-seller, Pro Cycling on $10 a Day, Smith traces the arc of one team’s racing career.
Reveals the struggles of U.S. bike racing teams in the post-Lance Armstrong era.
Release timed with Paris-Roubaix and the beginning of the U.S. domestic racing and peak riding season.
Slaying the Badger
Greg LeMond, Bernard Hinault, and the Greatest Tour de France
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Bernard Hinault is "Le Blaireau," the Badger. Tough as old boots, he is the old warrior of the French peloton, as revered as he is feared for his ferocious attacks. He has won 5 Tours de France, marking his name into the history books as a member of cycling's most exclusive club.
Yet as the...
Iron War
Dave Scott, Mark Allen, and the Greatest Race Ever Run
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2011
The 1989 Ironman® World Championship was the greatest race ever in endurance sports. In a spectacular duel that became known as the Iron War, the world's two strongest athletes raced side by side at world-record pace for a grueling 139 miles.
Driven by one of the fiercest rivalries in triathlon,...
Racing Weight
How to Get Lean for Peak Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Racing Weight is the proven weight-management program designed specifically for endurance athletes.
Revealing new research and drawing from the best practices of elite athletes, coach and nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald lays out six easy steps to help cyclists, triathletes, and runners lose weight...
Natural Running
The Simple Path to Stronger, Healthier Running
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Natural Running is the middle ground runners have been looking for. By learning to run the barefoot way, while wearing shoes, runners will become more efficient, stronger, and healthier runners. Backed by studies at MIT and Harvard, running form and injury expert Danny Abshire presents the natural...
Pro Cycling on $10 a Day
From Fat Kid to Euro Pro
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Plump, grumpy, slumped on the couch, and going nowhere fast at age 16, Phil Gaimon began riding a bicycle with the grand ambition of shedding a few pounds before going off to college. He soon fell into racing and discovered he was a natural, riding his way into a pro contract after just one season...
Team 7-Eleven
How an Unsung Band of American Cyclists Took on the World—and Won
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In 1980, there were exactly four professional bike racers in America. Six years later, an American cycling team would wear the coveted yellow jersey of the Tour de France. And that same team would go on to win Italy's greatest race—the Giro d'Italia—only two years later. Team 7-Eleven is the extraordinary...