Young guns go the distance in Melbourne

“The aim of the camp was to get all our talented younger distance runners together and for them to have a good time while learning from external presenters and also our older, more experienced athletes who acted as mentors in an informal environment,” Jamieson said.

“We wanted to provide the athletes with some knowledge they possibly hadn’t heard before to help them to reach the next level in their athletics career, if they could walk away from the camp with a couple of things they’d learned to help them become better then that’s the aim.

“We pinpointed girls who were too old for our junior programs but hadn’t really cracked a senior team and people who we could see as having the potential to make a Commonwealth or Olympic team in the next four years.”

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