From making her first Olympic team at age 15, Katie Hoff was labeled the U.S.’ next swimming superstar and spent more the next decade authoring a distinct career.
Hoff’s memoir, “Blueprint: An Olympian’s Story of Striving, Adapting, and Embracing the Suck,” was recently released and is available here. Here is an excerpt:
Blink.
Go on. Blink your eyes.
How long do you think that took? A fraction of a second, for sure, but what fraction? A quarter of a second? A fifth? A “split” second, whatever that means?