I will always be grateful to you. Two years ago my life turned upside down and these past two years would have been impossible without you. Before that fateful day I have always thought  I would become next great swimmer (afterall I was college "superstar") I would compete till retirement then open my own swimming academy.

I forgot that even the best-laid plans often failed. I had patellar tendon rupture over a stupid post training bet. Long story short doctors called it career ending injury  and I was too idiot too conceited  too weak to handle life's ups and downs therefore I fell of the wagon. I could not graduate on time, begun drinking  excessively, I put on massive amount of wrong type of weight. I was literally living in my own nightmare.

Eight months ago my best friend survived horrible car crash. Thankfully she has made full recovery but process did shake me to my core.  I restarted training, revised my eating habits and along with relatively decent base I have made good progress. I am still not anywhere close to my competitive shape but eventually I will get there. Because you are here your journey is here.

Whenever I feel like progress has stalled I come here. "Oh my god she is gorgeous and she is 20 years older than me?!" , "look at here she is a couple of inchs shorter but she has packed amazing mass" , "you complain about guzzling down another shake look at her amazing progress" these are just a few of countless examples.

Bottom line is I'm grateful to find this community and I'm absolutely grateful to find amazing role models. (I'm looking at you GRRL). Afterall there is nothing more than knowledge and inspiration here.