GREAT-ISH' AND A WINDUP TO COME!

With the domestic season all but done, Trackspeed1-UK athletes cannot stop improving their lifetime best performances, as demonstrated recently by Blackheath and Bromley Harrier, Ishmael Smith-John.

The 21-year-old has consistently sliced fractions off his personal best over 100m this year, and signed off from his 2016 campaign with another improvement at Hendon last weekend.

Ishmael Smith-John put his pre-season training in the US
(above) to good use this summer with PB's in abundance!

Competing in the London Inter-Club Challenge meeting, he also improved his 200m best, with both performances wind-aided, but with the 100m legally so, and the 200m only just over the limit at 2.2m/s.

“It’s been a great season in terms of improving times,” commented Ishmael afterwards, “although I have to say my targets were a little faster, but it’s always good to aim high, and I just have to stay patient - I know it will come in the very near future.  Meanwhile, it’s time to rest up and be ready to go again for 2017.”

Coach John Powell, abroad for the meeting, sent a message of congratulation to his protégée, commenting:

“It’s been a truly fantastic year in many ways.  Ishmael’s late PB is in many ways the icing on the cake, but it’s not just that – the squad have gelled so well as a group.  The focus is there, the work ethic is there, and the humour is there too.

“We aren’t allowed to say too much right now, but people need to keep a look out on Channel 4 this autumn – and when we know it’s being broadcast we will advertise on this blog.  It’s a tongue-in-cheek programme that provided me the opportunity for the wind-up of a lifetime for 6 of our athletes earlier this summer.  I’ve barely stopped laughing now!”