Welcome To Your Fifteen Minutes

"Welcome to your fifteen minutes." That's the first thing my friend Kat said to me as I was talking to her about how everything has changed since I was nominated to the US Paralympic Team.
It's been a hectic week of work, training, endless phone calls, and interviews.
I really can't complain right? This is the culmination of years of training and petitioning to get snowboarding in to the Paralympics. This is what I've been training for, so why does it all seem so overwhelming?
Maybe it's because all of this time I've been pretty incognito. Nobody knew my name. I was just a southern girl living in a world of snow.
Not to mention the fact that I'm a full time engineer at a large company. The last couple of years have been extremely difficult since I've had to work long hours to make up for the time I take off to train. Now throw on interviews and countless emails on top of that. Sometimes it feels like too much, but then I remind myself that I took 19 credit hours my senior year in college so that I could move out to Utah quicker. It seemed impossible at first to do everything, but I practically slept with my planner, prioritized every activity, and got in to a nice flow. I'll just treat this experience the same way.
I've got this. I'm Megan Harmon. I can do anything! That's what I tell myself while I'm in the start gate along with a few deep breathes.