I can be breaking records over even, still, I think I can get faster over 5k and 10k.
McColgan said: “For me it was probably much older, watching Paula run it, I remember thinking, ‘I want to do that one day.’ I want to run the London Marathon one day.
“I think it’s so unrealistic to think I’m going to go in and break Paula Radcliffe’s record on my first ever attempt,” said McColgan.
McColgan backs herself to eventually lower Paula Radcliffe’s nearly 22-year-old British marker of 2:15:25, but first the 34-year-old simply needs to get a proper taste of how writing this “different chapter” of her career will actually work in practice.
I think I am going to just try to learn as much as I can from this process, and then try to implement that over the next few years to see how I bridge the gap towards a 2:09 or whatever crazy time they’ve run by then.”.
