Summer reading Post #4

The reason that I chose this book out of all the options I had is because when I was reading the descriptions of the books this was the only one that sounded interesting to me. After reading this book the one idea that stuck with me that I could connect to myself was the idea of people having big dreams to go away and accomplish things with their lives but they just end up back home and with a normal job and they don't seem happy. Like they are living through life just doing the motions. The reason that this scares me is because I want to be a professional cyclist. I want to spend my life traveling the world and racing. this is obviously a very different route from what most people take and it is an extremely hard goal to accomplish with the fact that very few racers make the world tour pro ranks. There are so many hurdles that you have to jump over to get there. first you have to give up all of your time for training so that you can be the best physically fit, and the scary part about this is that no matter how hard you work there is the possibility that your body just doesn't have what it takes to be as fast as you have to be to be pro so you have to quit. And then you have the obstacle of having the mental grit to get up every day rain or shine and ride till your legs won't work anymore, and for some people there are just so many days that you can get up see that its going to be 40 degrees and you have to go ride 100 miles. even the strongest people in the world, because even if your muscles are ready, but your head isn't it the right place so it can't give the commands to go out and ride. So that is why this book really struck home to me. If I had to give this to to anyone, I would give it to my mom because she loves to read books that have messages like this one.