Really like the notion of toxic resilience. Finished it once and raced straight back to play it again.

I think the writing was compelling. It moved the reader into getting into the mindset of the creeping control and expectation others have of the athlete and blurred the lines of how much the person really had a say in what they wanted to do versus everyone else around them. Especially when you become something like Olympian material, the harder it becomes to choose a different path. Your destiny is decided, while others are given the freedom and flexibility of changing their minds with no backlash. 

Nice! I did feel a little pushed at the end into a "still going to go for next year" ending, like if I just let my mum rant and not listen and such... doesn't mean I would have to! :D  I wanted to toss the mum out a window.

I really liked the story, the writing and the interpretaion of the theme in this one. Great job!

I really liked the theme interpretation! How resilience can also be taken into another extreme, pushing ourselves to an extend where it is no longer in our best interest.