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Bios for the Authors of Bike For Life - How To Ride To 100

ROY M. WALLACK has toured tens of thousands of miles across North America, Europe and New Zealand, was one of the first Westerners to bike-tour the Soviet Union, and has survived some of the world’s toughest endurance road and mountain bike events, including Paris-Brest-Paris, La Ruta de los Conquistadores, and the TransAlp Challenge. As a long-time editor and writer specializing in cycling and fitness, he served as Editor-in-Chief of Bicycle Guide and California Bicyclist magazines and Features Editor of Triathlete in the 80’s and 90s and authored ”The Traveling Cyclist,” stories about dozens of his thousand-mile bike trips across North America and Europe, A three-time California Triple Crown winner, he currently writes about cycling, triathlon, adventure racing and general fitness matters for numerous national magazines, including Bicycling, Mountain Bike, VeloNews, Men’s Journal, Outside, and Runner’s World, and writes a bi-weekly sports gear column for the Los Angeles Times.  He lives in Irvine, California.

BILL KATOVSKY rode his bike across America in 1979, did the Hawaii Ironman triathlon in 1982, then founded what is now Triathlete magazine a year later. Since then, he’s gone on many long-distance bike tours of the western U.S., founded and re-launched several other magazines, including Inside Triathlon, Multisport, and Winning, done another Hawaii Ironman, and gained has some acclaim as an author of several recent books exploring current affairs, including the 2004 “Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq,” an oral history of the reporters embedded with the troops invading Iraq, which won Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize. He is currently working on “unAmerican: Voices of Dissent,” to be released in the fall. He lives in Mill Valley, California.

Overview

RIDE A CENTURY WHEN YOU TURN A CENTURY.  That's the promise offered by "Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100," a blueprint for using cycling to achieve an extremely active and healthy longevity. Bike for Life's message is that cycling is the world's best sport for longevity (after all, lap swimming is incredibly dull, and how many 70-year-old runners do you see?), but it is far from perfect. To  truly turn your bike into an anti-aging time machine, you have to do more than ride — otherwise there is a strong risk of osteoporosis, back pain, poor posture, declining strength and reflexes, even impotence and  poor relationships — all of which can conspire to keep you off the bike. Bone thinning, for example, is endemic in cycling, since it lacks the weight-bearing vibration that cues the body to build bone.   To enjoy the good aspects of cycling and avoid the bad as your age odometer heads for triple digits, Bike for Life teaches that you must supplement your riding with weights, yoga and  core/cross-training activities , all explained in detail in the book. It's loaded with eye-opening studies, and written in a fun, readable style heavy on profiles of real riders (several of whom you may know).  It also has a dozen, colorful  oral-history-type interviews with aging cycling  celebrities like Gary Fisher, John Howard, spinning founder Johnny G, Specialized founder Mike Sinyard, famed coach Eddie b, mountain bike legend Ned Overend and many others who talk about their lives and how they manage to stay fit past 50.  Bottom line: The authors, being endurance cyclists themselves who have done famed ultra rides like Paris-Brest-Paris and the TransAlp Challenge, have managed to pack tons of tons of relevant information into a very fun-to-read fun package.

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