When she reached the line after one of her greatest races Laura Muir slumped to the track and gasped for breath.
She lay on her back with eyes closed, her body throbbing in response to the trauma she had put it through. “Everything hurt,” she said as an ‘instant’ bronze medal, Britain’s first of these World Championships, was handed to her.
“That last 100.. my legs were just on fire, I felt like I couldn’t lift them, I was running in treacle. Everything was burning.”
