* MOST OF THE TIME WE INTERVIEW ULTRAFIT SUPERSTARS or maybe-not-so-incredibly-fit personalities who have started training. Yet our favorite (and riskiest) profiles are the byproduct of keeping our eyes peeled for people off the cultural radar who seem to have a certain something that embodies what this magazine is all about.
* BACK IN NOVEMBER 2003, some readers were surprised when we wrote about a 5'1", 100-pound female racecar driver. Danica Patrick may have been obscure at the time, but we could tell she was headed somewhere bigger than her next race.
Asked then what had made Bobby Rahal predict she could win the Indy 500 one day, she said: "If I set out to do something, I don't see letting down as an option. Usually, when things get bad, I push harder."
* WE DIDN'T EXPECT HER TO become (arguably) the biggest sports story of the year, but we weren't surprised, either. As everyone knows by now, Patrick, 23, only the fourth woman to race at Indy, finished fourth in the May 2005 event after leading with eight laps to go.
* CONGRATULATIONS, DANICA, on your achievement, and for proving yet again what this magazine has always preached--the only real limits to what you can accomplish are those that you place on yourself. You go fast, girl.
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