The most poignant passage has to be this: (forgive me for direct quoting Hannah, just have to pop it up...)
Christine Vardaros was in town for her only US race this season besides Nationals. I had the pleasure of meeting her and some friends for lunch on Friday in Providence, and getting to hang out a bit at the races. She had nothing but kind words of encouragement for me--that helped me feel optimistic about choosing to move up to the Elites. She commended me for upgrading, "Look where you want to go," she said, making a cycling analogy, "if you look at a tree, that's where you'll go, if you look at the dirt, that's where you'll go....look where you want to go."
(emphasis added by me - not needed but that's what rung true and lemme tell ya, i can hear Christine sayin that - even though i am pretty sure i wasn't around when those sage words were spoken).
Good stuff.
Look where you want to go...
look where you want to go...
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