![]() In her own career Eilish has gradually and effectively moved up through the distances, and now, three years after first contemplating the event, she is ready for the ultimate challenge. It will be unchartered territory for McColgan junior, not least because of the demands marathon-running places on elite athletes. ![]() For on 23 April, Eilish McColgan will fulfil that prophecy when she lines up as part of a star-studded field and makes her debut at this year’s London Marathon. However, her mum, one of Britain’s all-time great long distance runners, was right – and not for the first or probably the last time. “At the time I was just starting the 800m – to think about running 26 miles was totally alien!” Twenty years ago Liz McColgan told her then 12-year-old daughter Eilish that one day she would end up a marathon runner. ![]()
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