Megan Kate: I know that the 10,000 m Olympics will be one of the most difficult things in my life

Megan Kate: I know that the 10,000 m Olympics will be one of the most difficult things in my life

Almost no doubt, it’s ridiculous to get up quickly in athletic competitions, so Megan Kate’s reason is that it is completely satisfied with its own performance.
In most cases, in most cases, the number of victims of the victims, in most cases, “better” lines. It’s hard to criticize Keith for such an unforgiving view of her own performance, given that it was through her that the 22-year-old went from cross-country runner to Olympic athlete in track and field.

Keith will run the 10,000 metres at the Paris Games in 2024, marking just the Inverness woman’s fourth ever long-distance race. This statistic is almost unbelievable.
But Keith, as it quickly becomes apparent, is a generational talent. Based on cross -country specialists, the main points of XC career are included in European Gold U20 XC in 2021 and European Silver U23 in 2022. I found a race race. Rather boring. “”
Nevertheless, her random crime on the highway gave her a talented ideas that she covered -she won the European gold U23 at 5000 m last summer -and that was it. If you are ready to accept the challenge, it has become clear that the kit will accept the kit. Light, before that as a truck. She made her 5000m debut at the World Senior Championships last summer, but it was this year that Kate really came into her own, with the Highlander hitting milestones with ridiculous regularity.
Kate achieved the Olympic qualifying standard in her first competitive 10,000m race.
On her second outing, she secured Olympic selection by becoming British 10,000m champion and on her third, last month, she won her first-ever senior medal on the track in the shape of European bronze.
That European Championships medal was, to onlookers, a hugely successful achievement but Keith admits she still can’t resist critiquing her performance, despite the positive outcome. “I knew that I could have Europeans on time, but the championships might have so many races, so I asked questions in Rome. I didn’t want to be completely satisfied. ” -There is a medal.
“Winning medals was a good result, but I was not particularly satisfied with the way I participated in the race. I felt like I wasn’t fully engaging in what I was best at – going out and pushing hard, I was thinking too much about those around me and not enough about what I could do right. “This race was the most educational for me, so I’m really looking forward to coming back and hopefully doing a bit better next time.” »

The fact that Keith’s fourth 10,000m is an Olympic final is a bit ridiculous.

As the first British track athlete to secure a place at the Paris 2024 Games last May, Keith has had plenty of time to think about the possibility of becoming an Olympian. While many observers have commented on the speed of her improvement, the Inverness athlete acknowledges. She has been progressing at her own pace. In fact, it is only the reactions of others that remind us that what she has been doing for the past six months is unique. “I don’t see this as an abnormally rapid progression, I see it more as a logical progression,” she says.
“People’s reactions to me make me stop and think, yeah, that’s pretty cool. “I’m more interested in the media now, but I really want to keep myself and continue training.”

Keith is in a privileged and slightly unusual position to participate in the Olympics without pressure on his shoulders.
In addition to her 10,000 m GB vests, her colleague of Scotland, Irish Muckorgan, is a favorite of the gold medal in Gudafu Zegeye and Siffan Hassan in Ethiopia in the Netherlands. Keith has fairly refused to target a specific place in Paris, but he is certainly likely to return home with a long list of things he can improve on at his next competition.

“Everyone always talks about what they think they can achieve, but I don’t want to approach it that way,” he says.

“I’m my own harshest critic, so I just want to come home with a positive experience from my first Olympic experience in Paris. “I’m not joking because I know the race is going to be very fast and the conditions are going to be very hot,” he said. “This is probably going to be one of the toughest races of my life and I know I probably won’t be 100 percent happy, but I’m really excited to be at the Olympics.”