Staring out into the drizzle through the wide windows of the Emirates Arena, Jamie Bowie cannot help but feel a sense of hope that he will get a Caribbean call.

Last spring, he was summoned to the Bahamas for the inaugural World Relay Championships. Parties on the beach, soaking up the sun, just two parts of a highly attractive offering.

"If you see this weather, it's good for the motivation," the Inverness Harrier laughs. "It was a really fun event. In a championships, relays aren't forgotten but it was good for it to be central stage. The Bahamas are Olympic champions in 4x400 and they love their track and field. The island came alive but it was so relaxed. They did a fantastic job. They wouldn't be able to host a worlds or Olympics so this was great. And the athletes were happy to take the trip."

Having experienced three global excursions in as many seasons, the 25-year-old must ensure he does not drop the baton. Cut from UK Athletics funding list at the end of a campaign where he could not earn the individual 400 metres qualifying time for Glasgow 2014, he has been asked to prove himself all over again.

The process of measuring himself against his English-based contemporaries will re-commence next week, at the annual Sainsbury's Indoor International in Glasgow. The event, which has been reduced in size and ambition for 2015, will feature Scotland against France, Germany and the rest of the UK. 12 months ago, the home squad had a greater collective experience. For a few, the din provided a foretaste of what lay ahead at Hampden when the Commonwealth roar began.

Yet Bowie's campaign peaked just weeks later, joining the select group of Scots with world indoor medals to their name. While Eilidh Child ignited a glorious spell with a bronze, her one-time training partner returned with a 4x400 silver in which he played a fulsome part. The relays have provided a route to high achievement. Now, he declares, the moment has arrived to prove he can stand on his own two quick feet.

"For me, going forward, I've established myself in terms of relay running," Bowie confirmed. "Now the focus goes from making relay teams, and being a key part, but also pushing on for individual spots as well. It's good to have that focus with it being three and a half years to the next Commonwealth Games, or six months until the world championships. But it's about managing that step up and being not just a relay runner but proving myself individually."

Some might argue he would be better served by moving to Loughborough, where his rivals are based in packs, each feeding off one another while raising the bar. Bowie remains loyal to his Pitreavie-based group, and to his athletics development role in East Lothian. There has, he declares, when he felt cast him out to the margins by his northern locale.

"You're sitting having lunch and Mo Farah will sit down," he recounts. "You speak to people like Christine (Ohuruogu) who have so much experience, and they're under huge pressure at a championships, but they make the time to make you feel welcome and part of the team."

Some are friends, but inevitably rivals. Whoever lines up beside him in Glasgow will note what Bowie achieves. "People know me," he adds. "That makes you more exposed because people know what you're capable of. You're not that unknown factor."

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