“She is no easy task to beat in practice, even as a male,” he said. “I didn’t get broken by her, so I’m happy with that.” He added: “I saw her break a lot of guys in practice. … What I mean is if we’re doing a 3K threshold” — 30 all-out 100 frees — “she’ll just start beating you every single hundred, and slowly but surely you get broken like you do in a long race, like a mile. Your morale goes down pretty quickly when you get broken by a female in practice. I saw a couple of guys have to get yanked out of workout because they got beat by her.”

When I asked Ledecky about this, she claimed not to have noticed. “I was probably just concentrating on doing my own work,” she said.

“The Phenom” by Michael Sokolove in the NY Times Magazine (via oykamu)

My other favorite thing about Katie Ledecky is this article that allows her male teamates to monologue at length about how they are left emotionally and physically  “broken” from being so consistently beaten by a little girl.  Followed by her saying that she didn’t even notice the demoralized men she left in her literal wake.

(via galesofnovember)

“I was probably just concentrating on doing my own work.” – Every single woman I know who have out-performed men in male-dominated work spaces.

(via usachavez)