The carrot of Olympic qualification dangling over this Sunday’s London Marathon is enough to get even those noble souls dressed as oversized bananas dreaming of running along the banks of the River Seine this summer, but for one Yorkshire athlete with genuine ambitions of one day competing on the biggest stage of all, this is not the race to...
For Becky Briggs, a 24-year-old online running coach from Hull who represented Great Britain at the European Championships in 2022, merely being on the startline for the London Marathon is a victory in itself. Anything else would be a bonus. That is because since competing in Munich in the aforementioned continental championships 20 months ago, she has been taken on a journey of injury and rehabilitation that has been both infuriating and enlightening in equal measure.
“I’d spent the majority of my teenage years being in the middle ground of the big cross-country races, it took me until the end of my A-Levels when I really took off with it and started getting to the front of the field,” she remembers. “That first international race gave me such a perspective shift that while I’ve worked really hard academically to get to this stage, it’s not what I want to do.
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