The Brit clocks 15:18 at the Skechers Performance Run in the United Arab Emirates
Eilish McColgan has continued her fine form by recording her fastest 5km in two years in Dubai.
The 33-year-old, who regularly goes to Dubai for warm weather training, decided to take part in the Skechers Performance Run – hosted by Super Sports – and won the race in the United Arab Emirates.
Eilish McColgan officially clocked 15:18 and that is her quickest time over the distance in two years.
Since having knee surgery last September, the Brit had competed in just one 5km, running 15:19 in Vienna back in May.
Although both 15:18 and 15:19 are still quite a way off from her British record of 14:45 – set at the ASICS META:TIME:TRIALS in Malaga in April 2022 – it shows that Eilish McColgan is building up her fitness nicely ahead of 2025.
History Of Eilis McColgan
“The early bird catches the worm,” she wrote on her Instagram. “A 4.30am wake up. Does this mean I’m a morning person now? With it being 30°C and 80% humidity, and on less than four hours sleep, I still managed to muscle out a small seasons best! No better way to kick off a Sunday morning – jumping into a local 5km race for some training.”
It marks yet another milestone for Eilish McColgan and is her fourth race since the Paris Olympics, with the other three being the Big Half, Great North Run and Vitality London 10,000.
At the Vitality London 10,000, where she won in 31:36, the Brit told AW: “I’m really happy at the moment. After the surgery towards the end of last year, it’s been a long process to get back to where I am now. With two half-marathons and then a 10km, it’s been a tough couple of weeks getting back into racing.
Eilish McColgan (Graham Smith)
“If you told me that I’d run back-to-back half-marathons and then do a 10km in the space of a few weeks, I would’ve thought there was no chance of me doing that. I just think that shows how my body has got that much stronger again and getting back to where I was. There’s light at the end of the tunnel and now it’s about resetting and building into next season.”
After Eilish McColgan underwent knee surgery, she spent the following three weeks in crutches.
What followed was a heavy rehabilitation programme – including everything from cross-training to aqua jogging – to help prepare the Brit get back to competition once again.
After failing to finish in the 10,000m at the European Championships – Eilish McColgan’s first track event since her national record of 30:00.86 in California last March – she then placed 15th over 25 laps at the Olympics.
Eilish McColgan (London Marathon Events)
Eilish McColgan then won the Big Half in 69:14 and placed fifth at the Great North Run with 67:45, finishing just five seconds off the lead and beating her mum Liz’s best mark on the famous course.
Eilish McColgan: Following in Her Legendary Mother’s Footsteps
Ward Games fever well and genuinely held the country as of late, and for one competitor it was certainly an instance of history rehashing the same thing.
That is on the grounds that 23-year-old Eilish McColgan, who completed a truly believable sixth in the ladies’ 3000-meter steeplechase, is trained by, in all honesty, her mum Liz Eilish McColgan, Scotland’s best female competitor.
Eilish is the oldest of Liz and Peter Eilish McColgan’s five youngsters. With the two guardians global competitors, it is maybe not so shocking that their oldest kid is emulating their example. Liz told me, “Eilish began running as a 12-year-old at school so the choice was hers. She had consistently seen me run and considered it an ordinary day to day action.”
Eilish takes up the story. “I was brought into the world in Dundee and raised in Carnoustie. I began running in my most memorable year at secondary school and I truly delighted in it. My mum said I ought to join the neighborhood club, Dundee Hawkhill Harriers. At first I did high leap, jumps, each occasion, as a matter of fact, then I concluded that running was what I needed to do. That is the point at which my mum said she would mentor me to treat it somewhat more in a serious way since there was no mentor at the club.
“I was extremely lucky that I was in an extraordinary preparation bunch. There were around 25 of, all ages, all capacities and I just mixed in. I wasn’t given any exceptional treatment. It was an entirely friendly gathering and we as a whole got on all around well, similar to a major family.”
Eilish didn’t understand very the way that well known and fruitful her folks were.
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