For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, obviously, closely related. However surprisingly, for most, a desire to move faster is a lot more important than a wish to win. Somebody who wants to move faster will continue to work at the details and take little steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just occurs when you are doing everything right – it is the doing everything right that’s hard. And that’s what fascinates and obsesses Michael Hutchinson.

With his usual deadpan delivery and a knowledge about Faster that it’s all mildly preposterous, Hutchinson looks at the things that cause you to faster – training, nutrition, the right psychology – and clarifies the way they work, and exactly how what we know about them changes all the time. He looks at things that cause you to slower, and just why, and how tries in order to avoid them can lead to serious athletes gradually painting themselves into the most peculiar life-style sides.

Faster is a book about so why cyclists carry out what they carry out, about what the riders, their coaches and the boffins get right up to behind the moments, and about as to why the whole idea of going faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all those.