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When Lance Armstrong won his record-breaking seventh Tour de France championship in 2005, Chris Hong was playing the violin, not giving a moment’s thought to cycling. Now, four years later in Hong??€™s senior year at Harvard, his stringed instruments have been pushed to the wayside for handlebars and a saddle, and cycling has become his new, and favorite, tune...
...Hong??€™s mentor and high school teacher, Rick Norton, explains, “In cycling, unlike in other sports, you make only incremental gains each year you train. It takes a special kind of discipline to continue training once you encounter difficulties, reach a plateau in your improvement, or when the gain you make is much smaller than the amount of work you put into...
Anna McLoon, one of Hong??€™s training partners and a Harvard graduate student, continues, “I think the things that have helped Chris develop so quickly in the sport are the things that really set any athlete apart. Chris is innately good at figuring out what his goals are both long-term and short-term, what he needs to do week by week and year by year to get to there...It’s that combination of good goal setting, flexibility, and tenacity that sets Chris apart...
Perhaps the most impressive thing about Hong??€™s success is that, as McLoon puts it, “his natural body-type isn’t exactly one that screams out at you ‘elite cyclist...
...rigorous cycling program blended perfectly with Hong??€™s impeccable work ethic...