The race is not over until it over…
Check out the video below and you will understand why I say this, over and over….
Before yesterday’s race, Laura Muir had an Indoor PB of 1:59.50. Jemma Reekie, the training partner of Laura Muir, had a PB of 2:01.43. The 4J Studios Championships was going well, with Laura Muir leading through 700m, when Jemma Reekie, double U23 European champion, put her kick into high gear and put daylight between herself and the 4 time European indoor champion, Laura Muir. It was not that Laura Muir was giving up, no way! Muir ran a fine PB of 1:58.44.
It was the amazing show of speed, as Jemma Reekie, arms pumping, knees lifting as she completely erased her PB and destroyed the ten year old British record of Jenny Meadows (1:58.43). Jemma Reekie had just 1:57.91! A PB by almost 4 seconds!
Jemma Reekie just set British and Scottish records!
It was the amazing show of speed, as Jemma Reekie, arms pumping, knees lifting as she completely erased her PB and destroyed the ten year old British record of Jenny Meadows (1:58.43). Jemma Reekie had just 1:57.91! A PB by almost 4 seconds!
Jemma Reekie had just set British and Scottish records.
Wow, @scotathletics record for @JemmaReekie ahead of @lauramuiruns , what a race!! pic.twitter.com/C5kC9JnWXl
— SALMarkMunro (@SALMarkMunro) February 1, 2020
A classy tweet by @lauramuiruns:
Wow wow wow! @JemmaReekie so proud of you! 💕
Super happy to run an indoor 800m PB of 1.58.44 for this amazing lady to go smash the British Record!! 🙌🙌Photo cred @Bobby_ThatOneMo pic.twitter.com/tso95f8ftZ
— Laura Muir (@lauramuiruns) February 1, 2020
To read the entire piece in AW by our fave Jessica Whittington:
WATCH 👀
Our report on Jemma Reekie’s British indoor 800m record in Glasgow yesterday now includes a video of the race by Gordon Curran/@scotathletics âž¡ï¸ https://t.co/dMCMeD5a1e @JemmaReekie— AW (@AthleticsWeekly) February 2, 2020
