2020 Glasgow Diary: Jemma Reekie sets new British NR of 1:57.91, breaking ten year old record of Jenny Meadows!

The race is not over until it over…

Check out the video below and you will understand why I say this, over and over….

Before yesterday’s race, Laura Muir had an Indoor PB of 1:59.50. Jemma Reekie, the training partner of Laura Muir, had a PB of 2:01.43. The 4J Studios Championships was going well, with Laura Muir leading through 700m, when Jemma Reekie, double U23 European champion, put her kick into high gear and put daylight between herself and the 4 time European indoor champion, Laura Muir. It was not that Laura Muir was giving up, no way! Muir ran a fine PB of 1:58.44.

It was the amazing show of speed, as Jemma Reekie, arms pumping, knees lifting as she completely erased her PB and destroyed the ten year old British record of Jenny Meadows (1:58.43). Jemma Reekie had just 1:57.91! A PB by almost 4 seconds!

Jemma Reekie just set British and Scottish records!

Jemma Reekie had just set British and Scottish records.

Wow, @scotathletics record for @JemmaReekie ahead of @lauramuiruns , what a race!! pic.twitter.com/C5kC9JnWXl
— SALMarkMunro (@SALMarkMunro) February 1, 2020

A classy tweet by @lauramuiruns:

Wow wow wow! @JemmaReekie so proud of you! ðŸ’•
Super happy to run an indoor 800m PB of 1.58.44 for this amazing lady to go smash the British Record!! ðŸ™ŒðŸ™Œ
Photo cred @Bobby_ThatOneMo pic.twitter.com/tso95f8ftZ
— Laura Muir (@lauramuiruns) February 1, 2020

To read the entire piece in AW by our fave Jessica Whittington:

WATCH ðŸ‘€
Our report on Jemma Reekie’s British indoor 800m record in Glasgow yesterday now includes a video of the race by Gordon Curran/@scotathletics âž¡ï¸ https://t.co/dMCMeD5a1e @JemmaReekie
— AW (@AthleticsWeekly) February 2, 2020

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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