It's a special book, "Bike coaching" (Pendreagon, 160 pages, 15 euros). Because it's a book divided, or rather, multiplied by four. Four books in one.

Sara Poluzzi deals with training. She proposes bike coaching, precisely, a trademark and way of training "through the bike, to experience your body and emotions, offering you the opportunity to reflect and reach your personal goal in the most natural way for you". Six chapters: going out (working on personal growth path), climb (reaching goals), rhythm (going fast), overcoming limits (confronting oneself and others), cycling (going far) and free-wheeling (changing perspective).

Roberto Tomesani deals with routes. He describes six, each very different from the others: from Bologna to Montovolo via Sasso Marconi and Grizzana Morandi (about sixty km, 1230 meters of elevation gain, return by train); Stelvio with two routes then 48 hairpin turns up to 2757 meters with 1900 meters of elevation gain; Montagnola, part park and part velodrome, in Bologna; L'Eroica in Gaiole in Chianti, the mother of all vintage cycling events, to be tackled the first weekend of October with ten thousand cyclists or whenever you want on the permanent route; Vento, from Venice to Turin, as an example of a cycling trip, even a circular one, leaving and returning to your home's door; the Poggio, the last balcony before the Milano-Sanremo finish line, this time going downhill, four kilometers and about ten turns (but the author claims there are other poggi, and describes one in Nice).

Silvia, Mariateresa, Alessia, Nives, Fulvia, and Concetta share their experiences. This is the third book. Two pages each: age, profession, then personal trajectory, urban or tourist, and their bike, road or gravel, and their world, geographical or spiritual.

The fourth book is about exercises and training. Yellow pages. A kind of guided do-it-yourself, accompanied, explained. Instructions for use. Useful information.

"Bike coaching" – the subtitle: bike routes outside and inside yourself - was published in 2024. But its value and validity seem destined to resist over time and kilometers.