Riding Through The Storm: My Fight Back to Fitness on the Tour de France

As a soccer star for Crystal Palace and other top British clubs, Geoff Thomas was in peak physical shape. So when the recently retired athlete was diagnosed with leukemia in 2003, he focused upon an incredible feat of athletic achievement to help him survive. In the summer of 2005, following a bone marrow transplant that kept him alive, Thomas joined Lance Armstrong and the other elite bicyclists in the 2005 Tour de France on their grueling 21-day, 2,200 mile odyssey, despite having never before cycled competitively. This is his story, a true life tale of grit and determination in the face of a deadly disease, and of the iron-willed support of his family, friends, and fans who raised close to £200,000 ($385,000) for charity.

Riding Through the Storm: My Fight Back to Fitness on the Tour De France

Thomas, Geoff

Biographies & Memoirs

Orion Pub Co

As a soccer star for Crystal Palace and other top British clubs, Geoff Thomas was in peak physical shape. So when the recently retired athlete was diagnosed with leukemia in 2003, he focused upon an incredible feat of athletic achievement to help him survive: the Tour de France. In the summer of 2005, following a bone marrow transplant that saved his life, Thomas joined Lance Armstrong and other elite bicyclists on their grueling 21-day, 2,200 mile odyssey, despite having never before cycled competitively. This is his story, a true life tale of grit and determination in the face of a deadly disease, and of the iron-willed support of his family, friends, and fans who raised close to £200,000 for charity.

Riding Through the Storm

Royal Air Force Thunderbolts

Air Research Publications

Footsteps into the Light: A Comprehensive Handbook and Practical Guide into the Spiritual Life for the Enquiring Mind: Spirituality and Reality

Troubador Publishing

Geoff Thomas's heroic battle to overcome leukaemia, and then take on the toughest sporting challenge: to ride the Tour de France 'A wonderfully compelling read' INDEPENDENT 'RIDING THROUGH THE STORM details movingly and eloquently how Thomas fought cancer and then took on the Tour de France to prove how alive he was ... All human life graces Thomas' outstanding book' DAILY TELEGRAPH When Geoff Thomas struggled to play a friendly game of tennis while on holiday in Mallorca in May 2003, he thought little of it. Recently retired as a footballer, he believed it was a sign of ageing and perhaps a pulled muscle. But when the pain wouldn't go away, his wife Julie persuaded him to go to a doctor. He was diagnosed as having leukaemia. RIDING THROUGH THE STORM focuses on his journey round the Tour de France in the summer of 2005, riding the 2,240-mile course in the 21 days it takes Lance Armstrong and all the top cyclists, despite never having cycled much before. Despite the odds against him achieving it, he rode the course and raised nearly £200,000 for charity. As he rides, he looks back on his successful career as a footballer, and the bone-marrow transplant that saved his life. This is a powerful, moving and inspirational story of extraordinary achievement.

Seven Dials

Let's Study RevelationEl libro del Apocalipsis es la palabra final de Dios para la Iglesia: una impactante revelación de las cosas que Él quiere que esta conozca, expresada en un lenguaje y mediante unsas formas que deslumran y a mendo sobresaltan. Tal vez por ello muchos cristianos lo encuentren intimidatorio. Derek Thomas escribe para disipar un poco ese miedo, y demuestra que el Apocalipsis es por encima de todo un libro acerca de Jesucristo: cuya intención, además de doblegar nuestro orgullo con una visión de la soberanía absouta de Dios sobre todo acontecimiento pasado, presente y futuro, es confortarnos en los momentos dificiles con el conocimiento de la victoria final de Cristo. Derek Thomas nos guía a través de esta serie de siete visiones asombrosas que representan el desarrolo de aquellas palabras que Jesús le dijera Pedro: Edificaré´mi iglesia: y las puertas del Hades no prevalecerán contra ella

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Religion & Spirituality

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Christian Literature Crusade

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