Having crossed the line in two hours, 24 minutes and 25 seconds, McColgan wants to be below 2:20, a time when she believes it is necessary to compete worldwide.
“London was the main priority and I didn’t schedule anything after that, because I wasn’t sure how it would recover,” she said. “It gave me a lot of confidence, knowing that, ok, it wasn’t great, my first, it was difficult, I felt that I fought, but I got eighth and held Brit.
“The next to me can be the big northern race in September – a half marathon there.”
McColgan has not yet decided if your next appropriate marathon will be one where male participants will help ridicule it at a time faster, or “I go something more tactical like New York?”
She found the London Marathon “quite stressful” because it was “a baptism of fire” making her debut at a high -level event full of distance out champions.
However, she liked “that buzz you get” to have fans shouting her name all the way – and feels suitable for a distance as she aims at the next Olympics.
“This is definitely a new chapter for me,” McColgan added. “I always felt that one day I would reach the marathon and go a little later than perhaps was originally planned.
“There is a lot more space on the road too. On the track, I’m very tall and flowing, so I used to be cut and stumbled – and on the road it’s good to have my own space and rhythm.”
