I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.
From Victoria Pendleton
The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.
Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
I'm not one for going out on the town on Friday night, as I've never been a big drinker, so I like getting the rubbish jobs out of the way so we can enjoy our free time.
Oddly enough you'd think, now that I wasn't training professionally, I'd be able to enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, but I actually slept more when I was competing because I was so tired.
I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
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