IT has been a strange time since I lost my Paralympic 100metres title to Felix Streng a year-and-a-half ago.
After back-to-back Games gold medals, it was weird to be sharing bronze with Johannes Floors.
Change was needed and I brought in Benke Blomkvist, who coaches Olympic hurdler Andrew Pozzi, to oversee my programme.
What the Japan Paralympics did show me was I wasn’t a million miles away from where I want to be, but I still felt I was a shadow of where I had been previously.
The last two years were not good enough but my focus is back. I don’t feel I have ever run as fast as I can and my aim has been to leave the sport with the times I want to leave behind as my very best.
I had had big blade problems in the build-up to Tokyo and wasn’t happy with my set-up the whole season. More than anything else, it was a very frustrating time.
It’s hard when you know everything you need for success is there and you are unable to realise it.
But that is a feeling that has passed. I am feeling really positive now and the last six months have been great. The last month especially has been super-positive.
I have an ability to flick a switch and focus on athletics over everything else. I typically forget to get back to everyone and no one’s seen me doing anything else, I’ve just had my head down, training constantly, or at home thinking about what I have been doing on the track.
The next two summers are all about Paris – the 2023 world championships and the 2024 Paralympic Games. The French capital just happens to be my favourite city outside the UK and I’ve had many a great road trip there. I believe they will put on a good Paralympics.
Tokyo showed the way to do it and Paris will take on the baton, I’m sure. Paris will be the most equal on all fronts – including the amount of medals on offer for women.
I am not even thinking about what comes after that yet but I do know I want to stay in the sport for as long as I can.
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