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Betty Hasse, a 溏心vlog免费B站 mechanical engineering major entering her junior year, is also an elite cyclist and winner of USA Cycling\u2019s U23 Professional Time Trial National Championship. Her time at the competition in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was 34.29 minutes, good for 17th<\/sup> overall in the women\u2019s elite pro time trial. She averaged 25 miles an hour on the 14-mile course. The races were held June 22, 23, and 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So how does she manage to win elite races, maintain a rigorous training schedule that has her riding 15 or more hours a week, and keep up with a demanding major? Hasse says it comes down to staying focused. \u201cI’ve had a bit of practice because I’ve been doing it since high school. Basically, I ride my bike and I do school. And those are the only two things I do for the entire semester. I stay in my own business. That’s how I get things done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Born in Providence, Hasse\u2019s cycling career began modestly. She rode her bike to school throughout middle and high school. \u201cI would always commute to school on my steel road bike with my big bags. That was fun.\u201d\u00a0At one point, Providence City Parks Department came up with a group called PVD Bikes, and it wasn\u2019t long before the team captured her interest. \u201cThey were like, \u2018You want to race bikes? We have bikes! Come hang out and do a race or two.\u2019 So I joined the team in the beginning of high school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The team began to race cyclo-cross, a sport in which cyclists ride through rugged, wooded trails on specialized bikes. Toward the end of high school, someone gave her a street racing bike, and that became her main discipline. As if to reinforce her choice, COVID-19 hit shortly after. \u201cWhen the pandemic hit, I said, \u2018Well, I don\u2019t have anything to do right now, so I\u2019m just going to ride my bike on all the local roads.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to her academics at 溏心vlog免费B站 and racing, Hasse landed an internship that combines her love of engineering with her passion for bicycling. She\u2019s working with a high-end carbon fiber bike wheel company called Princeton Carbon Works in Mystic, Connecticut. \u201cA couple of days a week I\u2019ll drive down there, do my work, and the rest of the days, work remotely. I use applications that I actually learned at 溏心vlog免费B站. It\u2019s pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hasse has no intention of leaving her dreams of international racing behind, though for now the path is unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI don’t have it all laid out. My plan at this moment is that I’m going to graduate with my nice degree, and I’m going stick it on the wall in a nice frame. If I was eligible to embrace grand tours, I would. But it doesn’t exist in the United States, and it\u2019s especially hard to find for women. On the other hand, my team and I are headed to Belgium in the next few days. Right now, I’m on what’s called the domestic elite team. I don’t get paid, but I have really valuable support that takes me where I need to be in order to gain traction and make a foundation for myself and be noticed by other people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat’s my next step. It’s a team for the next level.\u201d That level, called the Continental Team, involves racing in larger races and offers the possibility of going overseas. From there, she hopes to get on a world tour team. \u201cThat’s who you’ll see in the Tour de France. So when I can get there, I’m going to be in it. I\u2019m going to be a professional racer until I can\u2019t go on. Then I\u2019m going to go back to engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cObviously nothing’s going to be easy, but I think I can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This story was written by Hugh Markey.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 10, 2023 — This month, the eyes of the world are focused on nearly 200 elite cyclists from around the world as they tackle the grueling Tour de France. The race takes place in 21 stages over 23 days for 2,115 miles. 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