“I'm not one of these ex-brokers who had a bad day at the office and decided to start over, to leave the stock exchange behind and dedicate myself to cycling.
No, that's not who I am.
I decided instead to become an ultra long distance runner, and to take part in the toughest physical tests in the world, in order to find out the limits of the human body—the limits of my body—in the same way that a good stockbroker sniffs around, listens, weighs things up and ultimately takes risks to make the most of an up in the market, and to establish how long to hold on before he sells."