Elite Athlete

She was an elite athlete, It was an obsession, and she was good at it, because she Trained Hard. She did not train hard because she had great ambitions, she had no goals to get to the Olympics or anywhere else, she just wanted to exert herself physically, it gave her a place to go, stuff to do and occasionally even a sence of accomplishment or direction. Most of all it gave her friends, and people who could support her.

Her sport saved her. It gave her what she needed, when she most needed it.

The mandatory drug tests even managed to keep her off drugs, even though she was searching for every form of relief she could find and surely would have tried to find it with them.

She stuck with the relief of wearing herself out physically in the company of greatly supportive people and friends. And although she was always searching for something more, that was essential to her, for getting her through hard times. The harder things were for her the harder she trained, she trained so hard that she represented her country, even though she never had any ambition to. And it did, for a small time, make her feel proud.