Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180

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.

Author: Mike Magnuson
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 05/24/2005
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.26w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781400052417
ISBN10: 1400052416
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Sports & Recreation | Cycling
- Health & Fitness | Exercise | General

About the Author
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.