It isn’t often that a top-level athlete admits to losing years to a bad mistake. Avinash Sable has no qualms doing the same but is also in a hurry on making up for the lost years.
From a then-national record-breaking 8:29.80 in 2018 to aiming for a sub-eight minute time, Sable has come a long way in the four years since he first took up the event, breaking his own record seven times now. After an impressive 8:12.48 at the Diamond League in Rabat, he is now focusing on the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games.
“It is definitely not easy but I don’t think it is impossible or there is need to train any differently for a sub-eight timing. It is all about setting the right targets,” Sable said in a virtual interaction from Colorado Springs on Friday.
