Earlier this year, the former British champion reflects his decision to compete on 29.
In the summer, Reec Prescod has announced its retirement of international athletics in sports for more than a decade: a career she saw that she was 100 m at the end of the 2017 world.
It was a calm decision made at the beginning of the year, later spread publicly. While many were surprised, 29, the former British champion had already begun to put forward what could come next.
“I think I reached the end of the last season and obviously I didn’t do (the Olympic) team,” he said. “In my last two race, I just found that I was a little struggle.”
Instead of pushing through another cycle, he paused, and that break brought clarity.
“I did not have a reflective of summer. I started training a little in London. But it was about looking at the whole cycle.
Prescod’s retirement has not been marked with a big send or farewell race. In fact, at the end of the announcement, the decision has been made for a long time.
“In fact, I retired in February, my birthday,” he said. “My close friends and family obviously knew, but I gave me a lot of time to find out what I wanted to do next.
“Many things I wanted to achieve, I have already done,” he said. “It simply came to our notice then. I think I would have to put a lot to them close to them. But I told myself.
“You need a really good support system with Athletics, you need a structure and you need a really good sponsor so you can see the vision.
When the news was published, the response was mixed.
“Some people were amazed. Some people were shocked, “he said. “I am 29 years old, most of the athletes retire in mid-thirty, so people were like:” You have a lot of talent. “
But private, the answer was different and told.
“There were a few athletes who came and like,” Well, I may also think it. What was kind of interesting?
“Sometimes as a athlete you are a small carrier zone. When is the next champions? When the next team. You just don’t stop. People tend to forget what you do.
Presskod does not see his career as “unfinished”, just ended in terms of himself.
During his 15-year-old career, he reached the World’s Final and Olympic semi-finals, 9.93, he became the best of the most attractive era of British Sprinting.
“I ran to the SUB-10 before they turned over the super-stains. So I’m glad I got there. “
Although the prescod has left, he remains closely related to sports and is optimistic about where British Sprining is going on. He points to the current generation of Sprinters as evidence of how deep the talent pool is now, even if the path of consistency remains tough.
“We have seen ZARNEL (Hughes) as someone who has been talented over the years,” he said. “One year he can start to find a way, next year he breaks the British record and is amazing.”
Presskod also attaches importance to Louis Hinchliffe as one of the last year’s progress, as well as one of the breakthroughs of Jeremiah Azu.
“Someone like Jeremiah, who is hungry with talent, was damaged as a junior, went to Italy, and smashed it in 9.9 last season.
“It’s part of sprinting. There is always and down.
Prescod’s prospect is formed with experience. He understands how good the margins are, and how long can it be necessary to find and then hold.
“As a sprinter, you buy from 10.7 to 10.3, it’s a big open. Then from 10.3 to 10.1. Then, when we saw it, they can get it for years.
“It’s part of Sprinting. Is the same in all events. Athletics is difficult. And if you didn’t get emotional support out of it.
“I have always been focused on things I have not reached.
“In tennis or golf you are in the world’s top 20. You are a great player. But in athletics, if you are the 13th or 12th in the world, it’s like: “It’s not very good.”
Now, Prescod redirects the same competitive disk for coaching and brutal development. He has already qualified as a coach with England athletics and has started speed of sports in England for his own Sprint program.
“Every day it is about me that I give it differently, helping people to be formed and presenting them to fitness. But to help younger athletes.
“Before you become the best athlete. Now we are talking about becoming the best coach.
“You need education to become the best coach. Do you need an attempt? You have to spend hours what you are doing.
“I feel that I started the Olympic cycle, right now in another place. For more than four years, how can I increase more children and still be involved in more children? “
