Last weekend, Gail Duckworth ran at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium on the new track which apparently felt good. The new stand is excellent but puts the rest of the Stadium to shame unfortunately! The work is still not complete and there were workmen there trying to push it through for the Diamond League meeting in July. Gail ran 1500m on Saturday and 5000m Sunday – thankfully at 9.30am and even then it was very hot!

 

Gail once again won two Gold medals. She says they were not fast times but that's often the way in Championships. In preperation Gail did a bit of speed work for the event at the last Watford Open meeting. It was her first 800m for many years (probably at least 8)and was reasonably happy with 2:38:8.