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Take one very large guy. Add booze, cigarettes,
and an extreme amount of junk food. Mix in a wry, self-effacing
wit. Throw in a bike. The result? Heft on Wheels, a potently
funny look at turning your life around, one insanely unrealistic
goal at a time.
Not that long ago, Mike Magnuson was a self-described lummox
with a bicycle. In the space of three months, he lost seventy-five
pounds, quit smoking, stopped drinking, and morphed from the
big guy at the back of the pack into a lean, mean cycling
machine. Today, Mike is a 175-pound athlete competing in some
of the most difficult one-day racing events in America. This
irreverent and inspiring memoir charts every hilarious detail
of his transformation, from the horrors of skin-tight XXL
biking shorts to the miseries of nicotine withdrawal.
Heft on Wheels is an unforgettable book about getting
from one place to another, in more ways than one.
Mike Magnuson teaches
creative writing at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale
and has written for Esquire, GQ, and Bicycling.
He is the author of two novels and a memoir.
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