Chased by Pandas: My life in the mysterious world of cycling

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Even though I think I can safely say that I’ve got a rational mind, I ended up developing an almost mystical rapport with the bike. I won’t spoil the book but there’s more in the book than the edited extracts on CN, you can see more sides to things.

The good vibes he sent through the peloton were rewarded by a Most Aggressive Rider prize at the 2018 Tour de France, where he took his trophy on the final podium on the Champs-Elysées. That Tour of 2003, it’s one of the swipe-left Tours, won by Lance Armstrong and best remembered today for Jésus Manzano leaving it in an ambulance, electrodes attached to his chest. Was a huge fan of Dan Martin ever since the Liege win, where he displayed an unbelievable level of cool to just tail-gun the pack and pick his moment. Yet imagine our surprise when we got back to the HQ for the results and a cuppa: the lad had ridden over to the break, then straight over them to take to win.Perhaps the Panda is wondering how Dan Martin got there and what he’s done since, and that’s where this book comes in.

This book scores well on the day to day detail, Dan’s personal training approach of preparing to ride a race like La Doyenne as well as the appraisal of equipment choice and bike fitting when he moved to the UAE team.It's refreshing to read a modern-day rider's memoire that's not all about watts, calories, and such other science stuff that now drives rider performance. Dan is a proud husband of Jess, a British long-distance runner who competed in the 2016 Olympics, in Rio, and a proud father of twin daughters, Ella and Daisy, born in September 2018.