Mikaela Shiffrin challenging her comfort zone
Mikaela Shiffrin earned 21 World Cup victories, two world championship titles, an Olympic gold medal and a pair of reindeer — that’s right, reindeer — by racing within her comfort zone.
Next for the 21-year-old skier: raising her speed limit.
She’s working with a new coach — Mike Day, the former giant slalom mentor of Olympic champion Ted Ligety — in order to help Shiffrin, in her words, “become comfortable with being uncomfortable.”
Because that’s where she believes she can unlock even more speed and possibly more victories in her quest to one day win a World Cup overall crown.