Parkrun drew David Gillick back in.
The Olympian and two-time European Indoor 400m champion has spoken openly about his relationship with athletics fracturing and the mental health struggles he endured.
“I had my career and the elite side of it, and then I drifted away from it for a couple of years,” Gillick, now best known for his brilliant trackside interviews with Irish athletes, tells The 42.“Through my own mental health journey, I realised that actually running is part of who I am.
“She loves it. It kind of reminds me of why I got into running: the freedom, you’re just running. There’s no times, it doesn’t matter where you come, where you finish, what time you ran. It’s just that sense of just getting out and running.” This has been “an unbelievable season for Irish athletics”, Gillick says, from the European Championships in Rome to the Olympic Games in Paris.
He is backing Adeleke, who finished fourth in the 400m in Paris to “have her day”, for one, but is mindful of tempering overall expectations. Gillick is happy being the other side of the fence now, but insists he’ll never lose the feeling of wanting to be out on the track — or the pre-race nerves.
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