To stay confident, Madison would need a shift in perspective. The same time that had won a race in high school would put her in the middle of the pack in college. But that needed to be okay; she needed to give herself time. Although Dolan thought she was doing well, Maddy couldn’t accept the abstract idea that she was doing “well”—not when she had a visceral reminder that she definitely was not. Weren’t runners streaming past her on the course?
