http://asktheauthor.gather.com/groupInvite.jsp?ref=ata_dc
Dan is discussing the Tour de France and his book Lance Armstrong’s War this afternoon at 2pm at Gather.com. The address above may not be a link (for a reason I can’t figure out right now), but you can cut it into your browser to join him.
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger – New York Times
Though Dan Coyle has written THE book on Lance Armstrong, he doesn’t have inside info on Armstrong’s cancelled wedding with Sheryl Crow this past weekend. But in Play, the NY Times new sports magazine, Coyle explains ultra long distance biking star Jure Robic, who will bike 3,000 in nine days, spend the last three in a frighteningly delusional hallucinatory state, and take home enough money to pay his crew.
Then do it again three weeks later. Everyone hopes Armstrong enters the race this year, maybe because then the prize money will actually mean something. In the meantime Coyle helps us wonder about the meaning of such extreme performance and the limits of the human body and mind.