Alisha Rees in Racial Action at Laughborough International last weekend (photo of Bobby Gavin)
By Peter Jardine, head of communications
Alisha Rees He has revealed how he resisted the temptation to leave athletics after two years of injuries and diseases.
The fastest female sprinter of Scotland, the Edinburgh AC athlete has the 100 -meter record of women, does not yet know how far his return can take her.
But, after a difficult path already, returning to British champions In August he would help to close after Bee Kured at the event in Manchester in 2023.
Alisha seriously broke the hamstrings after a horrible fall in torrential conditions in the Manchester regional sand. Other automobile health problems in 2024 derailed hope for many months.
“He has a long way back back,” Alisha told us in a sincere trackside interview in Laughborough.
‘This time last year I could not walk or at least not without pain. If you had told me in May of last year, I would run again for Scotland in Laughborough, then I would probably not believed you.
“So I am grateful to compete in athletics.”
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After only one output of more than 100 meters so far in 2025, last Sunday he saw his career for Scotland in the relief and 4x100m female clock 11.84 seconds in a guest of 100m. Two more steps along the way to recovery.
“Laughborough was my first relay since the Commonwealth Games final in Birmingham in 2022,” Alisha revealed.
‘To be honest, I would have an easy -to -say leg’I’ve had enough, I renounced ‘. I definitely thought about quitting.
‘I just didn’t want to remember my career in a few years and think’Did I do everything in the sport I could have done? “
‘I will see where the season takes me now. I really did not understand how difficult it would be to return from a serious injury. I know now! Special after two years outside.
Alisha with her Scotland relay team in Laughborough (L A R): Taylah Paterson, Lucy Fraser and Lois Garland (photo of Bobby Gavin)
‘I did nothing for two years. I appeared for training, but I could not run or do any real work and adequate training.
“I just need to get some races and have a normal training regime. I think you can take some careers to return to where I want to be, but at this moment I just need to take each race as it comes.
‘I hope for the end of the season I am running faster. I just need to return to the track. Hopefully in August he can go to the British champions and rewrite what happened a couple of years ago in Manchester. ‘
For Alisha Rees, this year’s British champions scheduled for Birmingham, instead of Manchester, can feel like karma.
*Alisha has the national record of Scottish women for 100 meters at 11.30 seconds and the national record of women covered for 60m to 7.27 seconds.
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