Neil Gourley is a person on a mission. The Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow looms massive this summer season and the 31-year-old Scot is decided to solid off months of harm frustration with a starrring function.
“I shall be there if I’ve to crawl around the 4 laps of the monitor,” he advised BBC Scotland.
Gourley, who has world and European indoor 1500m silver medals to his identify, has already been chosen for the mile occasion in his house metropolis after an “injury-plagued winter that was dominated by two completely different accidents”.
“I’m doing so much higher now than I used to be just a few months in the past,” Gourley added.
His winter started on the sidelines, coping with a patella tendon tear that had been troubling him final season.
After returning in February, a damaged foot the next month consigned him to additional weeks on the sidelines.
Hardly supreme preparation for his bid to be a house hero.
Nonetheless, he defined: “I’m beginning to actually see some consistency now and due to the cross coaching I used to be doing, I are not too far-off from health.
“The problem is to show that throughout into health in time for the Commonwealth Video games amongst different issues this summer season.
“I’ll by no means draw back from the very fact I wish to be on the high finish of championships and I’d like to win a medal in Glasgow, however it’ll be extremely difficult.
“I’ve made it tougher for myself by having a number of the setbacks I did this yr. But when on daily basis goes to plan between from time to time I believe I shall be actually aggressive in that ultimate.”
