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Do You Want to Ride to 100--and Beyond? Now with training plans, worldwide adventures, and more than 200 photos Ride a century when you turn a century: that was the promise Bike for Life offered when it was first published. A decade later, this blueprint for using cycling to achieve exceptional longevity, fitness, and overall well-being has helped tens of thousands of cyclists to ride longer and stronger. Now, nationally-known fitness journalist and lifelong endurance road and mountain biker Roy M. Wallack builds upon his comprehensive Bike for Life plan with even more practical tips and strategies to keep you riding to 100--and beyond. Fully updated, revised, and illustrated, Bike for Life features: Cutting-edge workout strategies for achieving best-ever fitness at any ageScience-based 8- and 16-week Century training schedulesA radical new workout method that'll make you fly up the hillsAn anti-aging plan to revive muscularity, strength, and reaction timeAn exclusive 10-step Yoga for Cyclists routineStrategies to fix cyclist's knee and biker's back Advice on avoiding cycling-related impotence and osteoporosisWays to survive mountain lions, bike-jackers, poison ivy, and headwindsHandling skills and bike-fit advice from famous coachesTips on staying motivated with worldwide adventures and challengesThe Bike for Life hall of fame: stories of amazing riders in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and upWith oral-history interviews and profiles of the biggest names of the sport, including: John Howard, Gary Fisher, Rebecca Rusch, Ned Overend, Tinker Juarez, Juli Furtado, Marla Streb, Missy Giove, Johnny G, Eddie B, Mike Sinyard, and Rich The Reverend White.

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Roy M. Wallack has survived the Eco-Challenge, the Soviet Union by bike, and some of the world's toughest two-wheel events. Author of The Traveling Cyclist and a former editor at Bicycle Guide, California Bicyclist, and Triathlete magazines, he is a sports-gear columnist for the Los Angeles Times and covers cycling, fitness, longevity, triathlon, and running for Bicycling, Men's Journal, Playboy, Outside, Competitor, and VeloNews. He lives in Irvine, CA. Bill Katovsky biked solo across America, finished the Hawaii Ironman twice, and founded Triathlete magazine. In 2003, he co-authored Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq: An Oral History, which won Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize. He is also the author of Return to Fitness. He lives in Mill Valley, CA.

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