Older and Faster: A Midlife Cycling Manual

’What Ed Clancy doesn’t know about cycling isn’t worth knowing’ - Sir Chris Hoy

’A timely reminder that age is no reason to slow down’ - Tour De France winner Geraint Thomas

’Brilliant advice, light-hearted and insightful’ - Olympic Champion Victoria Pendleton MBE

’Filled with hard-won advice from the pair on the training, nutrition, recovery and off-bike conditioning required for a long life on - and off - the bike’ - Bike Radar

AN EXPERT GUIDE FOR ROAD CYCLISTS LOOKING TO DEFY THE YEARS AND RIDE FASTER AND FURTHER

Getting older does not mean getting slower. Improving your performance is achievable despite the advance of the years. If you are a midlife rider who wants to ride faster and for longer, Full Gas Forever provides the complete guide.

Ed Clancy OBE, a three-time Olympic gold-medal winning cyclist and fitness writer, flexibility expert and midlife cyclist Lexie Williamson, are the ideal people to guide you through the strategies, training, benefits and pitfalls of going full-gas in your fifth or sixth decade. Mixing anecdotes, insights and personal experiences from their own sporting lives, you will find practical guidance on the following:

- exercises to enable riders to work on this area of fitness.
- off-bike preparation
- ride fuelling through a nutritionally focused diet
- recovery strategies
- injury prevention as well as advice on avoiding overtraining.
- dealing with injuries and adapting your training plan accordingly
- specifically designed programmes to smash the sprints and outlast the others in a test of endurance.

Whether you’re looking to scale those peaks, smash those sprints or outlast the others in a test of endurance, this book shows just how it can be done.

Ed Clancy OBE is the most successful Team Pursuit cyclist in history, having won gold with Team GB at three successive Olympics.
In 2020, along with former road teammate Graham Briggs, Ed launched the Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy, aiming to get children learning and enjoying cycling.

Lexie Williamson is a British Wheel of Yoga (2008) and Yoga Sports Science(R) qualified instructor and fitness writer. She teaches Yoga for Runners, Cyclists and Triathletes workshops across Surrey.