![]() Photograph: Ian Stephen/ProSports/Shutterstock Reece Prescod after winning the 100m at Gateshead earlier this month. He said I needed to get my head down and train.” Coming back from trials he said: ‘Reece, that’s just not you’. “I was well overweight and I got absolutely whooshed, absolutely battered. “It was weird when I was running in the trials,” he confesses. But Prescod admits he struggled with the intensity of the Florida regime, led by the leading US coach Mike Holloway, as well as homesickness and a recurrence of his hamstring problems.īut having begun his comeback last month sluggishly, which was reflected in a disappointing 10.33sec and a fifth-place finish in the UK trials, Prescod was given a lifeline by selectors – and realised he had to knuckle down fast. But then, having started 2019 with an even bigger bang, he suffered a serious hamstring injury and did not race for two years.Ī move to the US at the start of this year was supposed to revitalise his career. The Londoner is so talented that, as a 22-year-old in 2018, he broke 10 seconds for 100m four times, ran a wind-assisted 9.88sec, and finished with a silver medal at the European Championships. If Prescod lives up to his promise, nothing is beyond him. “There will be no Cake and Custard Factory and all that stuff. “This holding camp I need to stick to the fruit salads and the water, chicken and ease up a little bit,” he says. And he insists there is still time to drop to his race weight of 79-80kg in time for the Olympic 100m heats, which begin on 31 July – especially now that he has gone on a crash diet and stopped eating lunch. Prescod admits that he weighed 87kg at the British trials. You do that for a week and the weight just ends up going on.” ![]() Before you know it a jam tart, a pink icing cake with some custard, and then I’ve ordered two, and an Appletiser and then I go to bed. “And instead of eating a fruit salad, I might order from Cake and Custard Factory. ![]() “Then I jump on Call of Duty with the boys, and we’ll have a little snack break,” he adds. ![]() And Daryll Neita is one of my close friends and her family have an amazing Caribbean restaurant too. There’s Nando’s, there’s Gourmet Burger Kitchen. “Where I live in Canary Wharf, you’ve got Joe and the Juice in the morning and Pret. “Deliveroo is just very convenient,” says the 25-year-old, who is one of the most popular and engaging members of the British team. ![]()
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