Racing Through the Dark by David Millar - 9781409120384

David Millar

Title:. Racing Through the Dark Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback Overview:. Racing Through the Dark is a candid, unflinching memoir from cyclist David Millar that pulls back the curtain on the pressures and temptations of professional sport. Millar takes readers from his eighteenth birthday, when he first moved to France to chase the dream, to the moment he signed a professional contract and began racing at the highest level. He describes a rapid ascent, a lifestyle fueled by ambition, late nights, and the relentless pursuit of victory. But the story turns as a broken heel from a fall after too much alcohol marks the beginning of a darker chapter: the dawning realisation that doping was not a rare exception but a pervasive part of the sport’s “white noise.” Millar explains that he doped to secure money and glory and sustain his status, driven by peer pressure and the fear of failure. The narrative moves through the consequences, the arrest years later, and the difficult, necessa...