A Lifetime in a Race

"A very honest book - not in a sensational way - but more revealing in the realities of training, competing and racing ... Extremely enjoyable" Daily Telegraph "A good book, well-written, informative, engaging, revealing ... The insights Pinsent brings to his sport are worth the price alone" Sunday Times "The most insightful of the post-Olympic books in which the super-human rower demonstrates a reflectiveness that is rare among sportspeople ... He writes superbly" Independent on Sunday "Pinsent tells his own story in A Lifetime in a Race, and tells it truthfully ...This is another tale that rips off the page and says big, powerful things about sport, and about the frailties of big, powerful men" The Times "A gripping account of his life and most recent times. He deftly conveys the sheer effort needed to survive the brutal training regimes in top-level rowing, as well as the obsessive intensity that brought him his Olympic haul" Independent