It has been a long and painful road back for Taylor Phinney since his career-threatening injury last May, but by the end of the season the American could find himself with a top ten place at the UCI Road World Championship – thus guaranteeing selection for next year's Olympic Games time trial - and with a World Championships medal around his neck courtesy of the team time trial.
There are plenty of ifs, buts and maybes before those fanciful scenarios can play out, but given Phinney's form, his rehabilitation, and his current outlook on racing and life, almost anything seems possible for the 25-year-old.
And as Cyclingnews finds out Phinney isn't just focusing on results these days. His time away from the sport as he recovered from a horrific leg injury has given him, and at times forced him, to take stock of both his life and his career.
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It may seem hyperbolic, and in some ways it is, but Phinney hasn't just rebuilt a shattered left knee, he has rebuilt his outlook on life.
"I sometime wonder what kind of guy I would have been if I hadn't had that crash," he ponders.
It's late on a Thursday evening and Phinney has gone through another tough day of training at BMC's team time trial camp in Belgium. Lying on his bed, stretching out his knee to give it some flex, he questions the last year of his life:
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