Deadly Cadence

Harris, Pamela L.: - Pam admits to liking only three things: thinking about riding a bike, riding a bike, and writing-about just about anything.Her love of storytelling began at age five when her mother led her to the mystery section of the public library and said, "Pick out some books." That half-hour launched a lifelong obsession with crime-at least on the page.Years later, Pam spent 23 years writing for the Department of the Navy before shifting her focus to more creative pursuits-namely, dreaming up inventive ways to kill people (fictionally, of course) and writing about cycling in a far more standard fashion.Since the mystery stories and characters she loved as a child were no longer around, she started creating her own. She insists her tales are rooted in reality, just wildly exaggerated-because, as she puts it, real life is too unbelievable to pass as nonfiction.At 48, Pam took up bike racing and discovered she was pretty good at it. She won two national championships, climbed Mt. Whitney from Death Valley, and became an expert-level cycling coach. These days, she still rides-a lot-occasionally races, and spends her Sunday mornings screaming up and down mountains with her cycling posse. When she's not on two wheels, she's writing books about riding a bike in standard fashion while training the body in inventive fashion.