‘I’ve acquired an enormous 12 months of sport however no marriage ceremony plans’

Commonwealth Games champion Eilish McColgan stated she has needed to put marriage ceremony planning on maintain as she prepares for a “big year of sport”.

The 10,000m gold medallist introduced her engagement to fellow athlete Michael Rimmer in May, simply days after she competed in her first London marathon.

The couple, who’ve been relationship for greater than a decade, posted photos on Instagram of the proposal in entrance of Mount Fiji in Japan.

McColgan informed The Saturday Show on BBC Radio Scotland they’d initially supposed to tie the knot in 2026 however plans for the large day have been at the moment “non-existent”.

McColgan stated: “We were very gung-ho at the start.

“Getting engaged is thrilling, however life has simply taken over and it is exhausting if you’re an expert athlete.”

The 35-year-old has now decided to find a wedding planner while she balances her busy schedule and continues to “stay out of a suitcase”.

McColgan said she wanted to get married in Scotland surrounded by friends and family.

But she will not be roping in her mum, Liz, to help out despite the former world 10,000m champion being desperate to step in and lend a hand.

“Every couple of days she’s pestering me asking if I’ve checked out attire or performed something, and I’ve not,” McColgan revealed.

“If I let my mum plan my marriage ceremony, she’d have it organized by this weekend and we might be married in a barn someplace.

“She’s all over it but I want to do some of it myself and not let her take over.”

The Dundonian kicked off her 12 months with a new women’s 10km record in Valencia, knocking 12 seconds off her earlier private greatest.

And she credit her preparation over the festive interval, which included 4 days alongside Rimmer retracing her childhood operating routes, along with her success.

McColgan stated: “It’s really special being home and I try hard to come back for Christmas every year so I can have an easier week of training and catch up with my family.

“But this 12 months was completely different as a result of I educated by way of Christmas.

“I had a really hard session along the waterfront in Dundee then a session on the cross-trainer in my dad’s living room, but it all paid off and it was worth it.”

And with the Commonwealth Games solely six months away, McColgan’s coaching reveals no indicators of slowing down as she hopes to return to the monitor once more.

“If the Commonwealth Games were anywhere else in the world, I wouldn’t be running at them this year,” the four-time Olympian stated.

“But it’s hard to turn down a home Games and there is something special about it coming back to Glasgow for me.”

McColgan has received silver and bronze medals at European degree over 3,000m, 5,000m and 10,000m throughout a glittering profession.

But she is greatest remembered for her 10,000m triumph and 5,000m silver on the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

McColgan not too long ago turned her consideration to highway racing as she enters what she has described as “the last chapter” of her profession.

Last April, she ran her first aggressive marathon in London and crossed the road in 2:24:25 to set a brand new Scottish document.

Liz McColgan accomplished the London marathon in 2:26:52 in 1997, having received the long-lasting 26.2 mile (42.2km) occasion the 12 months earlier than.

But her daughter has now damaged all of her mom’s private bests, nearly all of which have been British data at one level.

“The marathon is something that I feel I have a lot of untapped potential in, which excites me,” she stated.

“It’s very different to the track so it’s totally new to me, but London was an incredible experience, and I can now call myself a marathoner.”

During preparations for the marathon McColgan acquired body shaming comments on social media, suggesting she had anorexia.

The runner stated her traditional response was to really feel “no emotion”.

But McColgan admitted she struggled when she acquired racist feedback after asserting her engagement.

“The abuse was absolutely disgusting,” she stated.

“Normally I’m numb to it but it’s the first time I felt upset while reading what people were saying about Michael and our partnership.

“It made me realise different folks’s feelings are concerned and it is not good for my household to learn.”

But McColgan said she tried not to get caught up in it as she looks to the future.

She has already broken Paula Radcliffe’s records in the 10km and half marathon.

But now she has her sights set on the former world champion’s 2003 British marathon record of 2:15:25.

She said: “It’s time to actually begin attempting to assault occasions now.

“Paula’s time seems insane to me. There’s a lot of grown men across the UK that would be very happy to run that time so for a woman to do it, it’s pretty remarkable.

“But by no means say by no means. I need to dream large.”

Listen to the complete interview on The Saturday Show from 11:00 GMT on BBC Sounds.