It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong

It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This is an interesting read about an athlete’s return to form after a battle with cancer. Although it’s not about the bike, there’s a fair bit of cycling mentioned. Armstrong isn’t a natural writer, and just as you want to get into further detail exploring into one topic, he stops narrating it and launches into another. What we can learn from our author is that he’s a stubborn and arrogant man who demands to be put first and doesn’t show compassion for his fellow humanity unless there’s some kind of gain for him. But it’s also a story of never giving up and you really feel for him as he crosses the finish line. There wasn’t much mentioned of his first long-term relationship, so it’s not surprising that it doesn’t last. And ten years later, his career doesn’t last either as everything becomes undone with the help of performance-enhancing drugs. But of course, the book only charters his first title. It’s all downhill from there.

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