How Did You Develop Into a Senior Athlete?

I looked up to a lot of the athletes who are already in the group, because they'd already won English schools medals. There was Liz Taylor and Emma Sowkord - I couldn't believe I was going to train with them. And it was fine to be like that, but thought there's no way I would ever get a senior international best. Went away, kept trying to train, but unfortunately suffered a lot of injuries for a few years.