Mark Cavendish
Cyclist
1985-05-21
Books by Mark Cavendish
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At speed
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Quotes by Mark Cavendish
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When I was younger, I didn't really train for the sprint - I trained to get over the mountains. I have to train it now I'm getting older. But the sprint is more born, rather than made.
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I'm 100% a sprinter... an old school one, not one of these new guys that can climb and sprint.
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When you win sprints, you're a great sprinter, but when you win a great one-day race, you've proved you're a great rider.
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Psychological edge is massive in sprinting.
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But you have to take asthma seriously. People do not realise the stress our bodies go under.
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Training-wise, I don't have an extreme plan I stick to. I know what I have to do, I know the goal. But it's not really structured. That's the beauty of road cycling. It all depends on the conditions on the day and where you are in the world.
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Lance Armstrong won seven Tours, that's 147 days of racing, and he never had a puncture or a mechanical. You can really minimise your chances of a mistake if you do everything right.
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Every rider trains their muscles but few train their brain.
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The stronger you are as a unit, the more you can control a race. The strongest cyclist in the world isn't as strong as two guys, let alone nine.
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You can only pre-plan stuff to a certain degree because there are so many variables - road conditions, weather conditions, mechanicals... You have an idea of whose wheel you want to be on.
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You concentrate just on yourself. I can't wallow in anything, can't worry about what others are doing.
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You can believe or you can doubt yourself. It's the difference between a gap being one metre late that you're gonna launch, then it's three seconds and you're sat on the wheel and you're about to lose.
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