Eilish McColgan will hold showdown talks with UK Athletics chiefs this week in a bid to create a roadmap over her plans to compete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
The 23-year-old steeplechaser has just returned from a training camp in Rio to start the countdown to next summer's European Championships as well as the Commonwealth Games.
With her mother and coach Liz Lynch now based part-time overseas, McColgan is set to split her life between Dundee and Loughborough. And she is confident that with enough support, she can emerge as a contender for major titles.
"I need to sit down with Neil Black and UK Athletics and work out exactly what camps I'm going to be on, what races I'm going to do, and where I'll base myself for the next three years," she said. "I want another crack at the Olympic steeplechase in Rio. I feel London came far too soon for me.
"But now I feel like a different athlete. I race these girls now every week and I'm used to that level. I'd like to be at Rio and give the steeplechase a real shot before moving up in distance."
McColgan, who this week picked up a sponsorship deal with law firm Lindsays, is now planning an assault on the indoor circuit in the New Year once she returns from a second trip to Africa.
And that could lead to a championship tilt at March's world indoor championships in Poland.
"I didn't plan to do it last year, but it worked out really well and I was fifth in the world rankings," she said. "So if I come back from Kenya in good shape, I'll definitely have one eye on making the team for the world indoors over 3000m."
o Three teenage members of Edinburgh Athletic Club, dominate the back-marker positions for the 2014 New Year Sprint, the draw for which takes place tomorrow at Musselburgh Racecourse where the 144th professional handicap will be held on December 31 and January 1.
Liberton High schoolboy Morro Bajo, 17, is the scratch man off 2.75 metres, while 18-year-old Heriot-Watt student Sam Revie is next off 3.75m. The holder, George Watsons schoolboy Ben Robbins, 16, has been given four metres by Glenrothes handicapper Adam Crawford compared to 7.5m when he won the race last year.
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