If You Worried About Falling Off The

It's Tough To Be A 15- Or 16-year-old Athlete Competing Around The Country. There's Tension, There's Media. I Had No Idea What I Was Getting Into.

Hard Work, Sacrifice And Focus Will Never Show Up In Tests.

Me And Running Don’t Always See Eye To Eye. Some Days It Hurts More Than Others. But It Doesn’t Mean I Don’t Do It. I Deal With It And I Keep Running Because Not Everything That Is Good For You, Always Feels Good For You.

I Figure The Faster I Pedal, The Faster I Can Retire.

There Were Something Like 50 Good, Arduous Climbs Around Nice, Solid Inclines Of Ten Miles Or More. The Trick Was Not To Climb Every Once In Awhile, But To Climb Repeatedly. I Would Do Three Different Climbs In One Day, Over The Course Of A Six- Or Seven-hour Ride. A 12 Mile Climb Took About An Hour, So That Tells You What My Days Were Like.