Kathryn Bertine / World’s Fastest Woman

The reading that I read was about a Kathryn Bertine a cyclist in her own right and her story on how she got to become a cyclist. Kathryn Bertine has a rather interesting story as her life took many turns in where she finally got with cycling. Kathryn started off as an ice skater/ a figure skater in where she focused in and had a side interest as a writer. Throughout her life Kathryn was open to many sports along the way and was talented in many sports. Some of these sports were Skating, Running, Rowing and she also participated in many triathlons. Kathryn was special in a way that she set goals, met them and exceeded most of her goals as her mindset and mentality was of very strong will. Kathryn picked up things and succeeded in nearly every sport she tried and with these sports reached collegiate, professional or even Olympic levels. After constantly achieving goals in education and various sports mentioned earlier. Kathryn finally picked up cycling where she went from a level 4 to level 1 level in just a few months. This was already impressive as her leg strength from other sports she has done, benefitted her in many ways and helped her fast improvement. She picked up much joy for the sport and continued with it as she wanted to compete in the Olympics. As she didn’t make the Olympic team, she didn’t give up there. Her determination led her to find another way, in which she was forced to find another country with a poor cycling reputation and make their team, improve their team and earn citizenship in that respective country.

 

Another article I read was Denise’s Miller, fastest women on earth. This article was very interesting as it told the story of her love with speed. I found it so interesting in how she felt when she was riding 100+ miles an hour on a bike. Denise explains the dangers of cycling at that speed as an adventure because although it is a risk it’s something they calculate and work hard and train to be able to ride at that speed.

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