Between the Lines: My Autobiography
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Victoria Pendleton. Between the Lines: My Autobiography
Between the Lines
Laoshan Velodrome, Beijing,Tuesday 19 August 2008
Laoshan Velodrome, Beijing, Tuesday 19 August 2008
Pruszków, Poland, 26 March 2009
Ballerup Super Arena, Copenhagen, 24 March 2010
Ballerup Super Arena, Copenhagen, 27 March 2010
Apeldoorn, Holland, 23 October 2011
The Olympic Velodrome, Stratford, London, 17 February 2012
Hisense Arena, Melbourne, 6 April 2012
Olympic Velodrome, Stratford, London, Thursday 2 August 2012
Olympic Velodrome, Stratford, London, Friday 3 August 2012
Olympic Velodrome, Stratford, London, Tuesday 7 August 2012
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We racked up some big rides together. I remember telling my teacher at Fearnhill on a Monday morning that I had ridden fifty miles the previous day. ‘Fifteen!’ she said, as if I needed to be corrected. ‘No,’ I said quietly. ‘Fifty. Five-oh.’ I don’t think she believed me, even though she knew I was not a girl who usually lied. But Dad, Alex and I had really ridden fifty miles. We had stopped for a break in the middle but, still, fifty miles for a thirteen-year-old girl felt like an achievement.
Alex and I also won lots of little trophies at grass-track meetings around the Home Counties. They felt more like picnics than anything serious and we enjoyed racing each other and some of the same kids that popped up all over the place. The grass-tracks developed our bike-handling skills and, allied to the stamina we’d forged on our Sunday morning marathons with Dad, Alex and I began to win regularly. We’d come home and say to Mum: ‘Look what we won! Ta-dah!’ And we’d wave our small cups and plinths of bronze cyclists in the air.
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