Jemma Reekie is hoping to use her form this summer, which saw her reach yet another World Championship final, as well as victories in the Diamond…
Championship final, fifth place in the world 800m rankings and running some of her fastest times ever were not enough to satisfy her this summer.
Add to that, a sudden and somewhat out-the-blue, to outsiders anyway, split with her long-term coach Andy Young in March, it was understandable that Reekie went into the summer of 2023 having joined forced with her new coach, Sussex-based Jon Bigg, with a blank slate when it came to targets. “When I joined Jon's group in March I was not in good shape; we were talking about me running under 2 minutes which, when you look at how fast I’d run previously, it was really going backwards,” she says.
It was a target she, ultimately, failed to fulfil – a fifth place in last month’s World final in a time of 1 minute 57.72 seconds was, objectively, a good performance, particularly when it came on the back of her victory at the London Diamond League. But Reekie admits that it took considerable persuasion to convince herself of the success of her season.
And it’s a regime that, Reekie believes, is exactly what she needs to enable her to find the extra few percent that will allow her to challenge the likes of Keely Hodgkinson, Athing Mu and Mary Moraa on the global“The move came at a good time for me – it felt like it was now or never,” she says of her new coaching set-up.“Coming fourth in Tokyo was tough because I came so close to a medal doing training that I felt didn’t suit my body.
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