LAURA MUIR, ominously, sees the finishing line in her race to journey from the trough of hip injury in the spring to lofty conquests in the summer. “I'm getting pretty close,” the Olympic silver medallist attests. A good place to be, four weeks out from the world athletics championships in Oregon where the 28-year-old senses a chance to fill one of the few voids in an already illustrious CV.
At the UK Championships in Manchester this afternoon, she will be as searingly hot a favourite as imaginable to regain her British title in the women’s 1500 metres. One step, one rehearsal closer to the trio of gargantuan opportunities that awaits over the next two months.
