Ten Points

This book by Bill Strickland came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Skye Fitzgerald. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

When Natalie, Bill Strickland's preschool-aged daughter, asked him if he could win ten points during one racing season-the bicycling equivalent of taking an at-bat against Randy Johnson or going one-on-one with Lebron James - a sensible man would've just said no and moved on. Instead, Strickland decided to try. In the process, he discovered that he was racing toward the loving home he cherished and, at the same time, trying to get away from something far worse - his legacy of horrific child abuse.