Eleven Brits in Monaco – runblogrun

Brit watch – Monaco

There were 11 GB athletes competing in Monaco in different formats.  This is what happened.

Ben Pattison  800m 5^th 1:42.27

Ben ran a PR of 1:42.27 for fifth place in the 800m but was not satisfied, telling me: “I feel like I could have run better.  I trusted myself. I just stuck to the rail and knew the gaps would open up when I needed them to. I probably let the leaders go a bit too much. But I closed well and yes, to run a PB by that much,  I know I’m in good shape.  It’s been a long time coming, but now all eyes on Paris and I know I can beat those guys, if but don’t make the mistakes I did here”.

Neil Gourley 1500m 5th 3:30.65,

Fifth in the 1500, in an season’s best 3:30.65, just 0.6 outside his PR but he had expected more: “The race was aggressive; I knew it would be. I was hoping to be further up.  When Laros went down, I lost connection. And it’s so hard to get back on it. But it’s a learning experience, I felt like the race kind of happened to me rather than me imposing myself on the race, which is frustrating but I still ran OK, just about in line with my PB. I don’t feel like I handled myself perfectly tactically. I should have been out harder, and so avoided that initial fall.

The instinct is to panic after someone falls and I didn’t. I still picked off one or two people, which is good but, yeah, I wanted to be further up that field today”.

Molly Caudery Pole Vault 3^rd 4.83

The margins are so small and the tactics fascinating with  Molly getting 4.83, skipping 4,88 and nearly getting 4.93. She said: “Well, it was a very good competition. You know, the girls really brought it tonight.  To have two girls over 4.88 was incredible.  I’m pretty happy;  I need  to figure a few things out and I have couple things to work on, but tonight was not the one that counts.  The Olympics will be a real battle and anyone could win it. It was a battle out there today and it’s just about who’s going to get it on the day which makes it exciting actually. We have London Diamond League next week which should pretty much be a rematch of today, which will be fun and I expect the Olympic Final will be pretty similar as well”.