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Inside Running – What Most Runners Missed
🏟️ Welcome back
Your weekly dose of what's happening in the running world — with a coaching lens on what we can actually take from it.
This week, the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń just wrapped up. And Great Britain had a historic one. This one’s performance is worth breaking down.
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🏴 Keely Hodgkinson — World Indoor Champion
On March 2026, she delivered one of the most controlled championship performances we’ve seen.
The result: 800m gold. 1:55.30. Championship record.
How she did it: She took the lead from the gun. 27.26 through 200m. 56.96 at the bell. Never looked back. Won by 1.34 seconds over Audrey Werro — a gap you almost never see at this level.
Why it matters: At 24, she's the Olympic champion, the world record holder (1:54.87), and now the world indoor champion. Every expectation was on her. She didn't force it. She executed a plan and let the race come to her.
The coaching takeaway:
That 1.34-second winning margin didn't come from going out reckless. It came from years of controlled racing — knowing her splits, trusting her fitness, and not panicking when the pressure was highest. She ran to her plan, not to her limit.
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🇬🇧 Britain's Biggest Week in Indoor Athletics
It wasn't just Keely.
→ Georgia Hunter Bell — 1500m gold in 3:58.53 (British indoor record, world-leading time). First global title.
→ Molly Caudery — Pole vault gold, clearing 4.85m. Regained her world indoor title.
→ Josh Kerr — 3000m gold in 7:35.56 the night before. Second world indoor title.
Four athletes. Four world titles. Two nights.
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💬 Be honest with me:
What's your niggle?
The one you've been ignoring. The one you warm up and it "goes away" so you keep running. The one you haven't told your training partner about.
I carried mine for a decade. I'll share what I'm finally doing about it in this issue — but I want to hear yours first.
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Inside Running – What Most Runners Missed
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