1 KATIE ARCHIBALD
It’s late 2014 and 20-year-old blue-haired Katie Archibald is writing in one of her many journals. This one asks her a question each day, things like, who are you closest too? Or what’s your salary? You repeat it every year to create a record of your changing relationships, status and ambitions.
“It asks, ‘What’s something that you’re aspiring to? I’ve written ‘the Olympic omnium spot!’ when it’s just a total pipe dream,” she says. “There’s no way that this is happening. I used to say that I wanted the Olympic omnium spot loads with no sense that it would be attainable at all. But of course, that’s the dream.”
That day comes round again in 2018. “The Olympic omnium spot!” she writes, as she has done each year since. Soon after writing it she decides she’s not ready and takes herself
