It is only 12 months ago that Lucy Garner was preparing to tackle the national junior road race in South Wales.
Victory there gave her the first leg of a stunning triple crown as she went on to add the European and world crowns.
But just how much her cycling world has been transformed can be gauged by her next port of call.
On Sunday, the 18-year-old from Cosby leaves her base in the Netherlands with three of her Team Argos-Shimano colleagues, Amy Pieters, Willeke Knol and Janneke Busser, for a stint of racing in Shanghai.
The riders face a three-day race at Chongming Island, starting a week today, before completing the trip with the latest World Cup round at the same venue.
The team was dealt a blow last week with the loss to injury of star sprinter Kirsten Wild, but Garner, pictured, remains undaunted.
"It will be hard because there are only four of us going now," she said.
"I don't think the courses will be really hard, not that hilly, so it gives us all a chance to get a result. It is all experience. I'm sure the racing will be fine.
"I don't know how things like jet-lag and different food might affect how we go, but I am really looking forward to it.
"We would have been working for Kirsten because she is our strongest sprinter. But her not being there opens doors for the rest of us, if we get the chance."
The Mercury's Young Sportswoman of 2011 and 2012 will travel in good heart.
The former Leicestershire Road Club rider has had a quiet spell since finishing sixth in the Dwars door de Westhoek race in Belgium 10 days ago.
However, fourth place in a training race at Amersfoort at the weekend shows the Great Britain Academy star remains in good order.
She was certainly in decent company in a fast race as her boyfriend, Lars van der Haar, who rides professionally for the Rabobank Development squad, was second.
Welland Valley's defending super veteran champion Vic Barnett rode to victory in the second round of British Cycling's national mountain bike cross-country series in Cornwall.
Following on from his first-round victory, Barnett crossed the line two minutes ahead of his nearest rival after four laps of the 5.6km course at Redruth.
With large sections of single track, overtaking proved difficult anywhere apart from the finishing straight.
For the first two laps, Barnett and eventual second-placed rider John Lloyd (mtb-marathon co.uk) could not be split, until the county man attacked on a steep climb to forge a gap.
The Welland Valley stalwart then attacked on every climb as he countered Lloyd's ability on the technical descents and secured a convincing win.
Win number nine of the season came for Matt Bottrill on familiar territory at Six Hills as he won the VTTA 25-mile time-trial.
The Drag2zero man clocked 49min 53sec to beat Pedal Power's Adam Gascoigne (53.52). James Perkins, riding for Zenith-Buzz Cycles, was third on 54.06, with Matt Sinclair (Lutterworth Cycle Centre) fourth in 54.14.
