“ Nonsense ” to think that Eilish McColgan can break the record of the London marathon during the beginnings

The Olympian quadruple Eilish McColgan easily concedes that its beginnings at the London marathon will not be completed in a record way.

The Scottish champion prevailing the 10,000 -meter Commonwealth Games provided that her young daughter turned 26.2 miles would reach the 2023 edition, but feels “rushing” that the process contributed to the injuries that left her incapable to run for almost six months.

McColgan supports itself to possibly lower the British marker almost 22 years old by Paula Radcliffe by 2:15:25, but first the 34 -year -old woman must simply have a good taste of the way in which the writing of this “chapter different from his career really work in practice.

“I think it’s so unrealistic to think that I will enter and beat Paula Radcliffe’s file on my very first attempt,” said McColgan.

“It is a nonsense. It just won’t happen. But do I think I am able to spend these moments in the future? Absolutely. I wouldn’t be there if I didn’t think I was.

“But I play more than a long game, and I take things month and year per year rather than trying to precipitate things.”

McColgan believes that she was in “the best form of her life” before she was away, after having broken the British record 10k from Radcliffe Radcliffe, then improving his own British record at half-marathon in Berlin.

The recovery process was exacerbated by confusion and an erroneous diagnosis on what the problem was precisely, but McColgan finally underwent knee surgery.

She says that her goal is “all on the roads now”, although the Commonwealth 2026 home games during the Glasgow scale event – where there will be no road events – remains at the mind.

“I learned a lot from 2023. Now I just want to make sure I build things gradually, do things correctly, and I just want the longevity in my career,” she said.

“I still believe that this next Olympic cycle that I can be at my best. I can even break records, I think I can go faster on 5k and 10k.

“But really the marathon is a long -term project. I think I’m just going to try to learn as much as possible from this process, then try to implement it in the coming years to see how I fill the gap around 2:09 or whatever the time that they have cut by then. “”

This year is a basic question – even the simple understanding of how to optimize supplies, gels and drinks will be new for McColgan, which also has no idea of ​​the duration of its recovery process.

But she couldn’t have a better coach – McColgan’s mother Liz won the London marathon in 1996.

Eilish was only five years old when it happened and had “no real concept of what the race was”, but recalls everyone who was rushing around a “small little television screen In a VIP hospitality tent.

There is a photo, buried somewhere in her phone, of her with the trophy on her head.

McColgan said: “For me, it was probably much older, watching Paula make him work, I remember thinking:” I want to do this one day. “I want to run the London marathon one day.

“Even at this stage, I never thought I would be a professional athlete. I never thought that I would be good enough to be a runner, so it’s very, very surreal now to queue on the starting line as my mother did, and as Paula did, and All other elite athletes over the years.

“Many people said why choose such a big race that your debut?” There are other marathons that you can choose and hide in a smaller event, but London is London.

“There is really no other atmosphere like that. The only buzz in this whole city the day is difficult to put in words unless you are there. “”