I still can't believe it. I really had hoped that I would medal and I knew if I ran to the best of my ability I would have a good chance of medalling but I was just dying to get the gold medal. The aim was to get one so to get two was way beyond expectation so it was great.

The 1500m was, believe it or not, the race I was most looking forward to. Up until a few years ago I would have been swinging more towards the 800 but I suppose this last couple of years I was focusing more on the 1500 and the 3000 on the track so I was dropping down to the 800 and I could count on the one hand the number of races I have had in the 800 over the last couple of years so I wasn't sure how I would feature in the 800. I felt more confident going into the 1500.

I had a nice break between the two races and the legs were well rested and I felt good. It was actually a bit cooler too and I felt more comfortable.

My plan coming in was to wind it up. The first 300 metres were slow and my intention was to try and wind it up and I knew once I got going that if the German Olga attacked in the last lap I had another gear in me. It was great that it all went to plan.

A couple of times this year I had sat in and tried to work off somebody else's game plan and I suppose you always go in with an idea of what you want to do. I just decided to go in with my own race plan and I knew that I had a lot more in my legs. That race was actually the slowest 1500m that I have ran this year. I decided to go with what I was confident with in my own head and just be more self assured going into it. I was just going to run my own race and not worry about ehat anybody else was going to do and see what happens. If you blow up in the last 200m after running your own race then you can't do anything about it but if you blow up after running somebody else's race then you would be kicking yourself.

I actually couldn't hear Olga, I glanced over my shoulder with 150 to go and I could see her hand swinging so I knew she was still there but I felt good and I knew I could kick on. Irene Clements was there and they were shouting me to let me know where she was and as I said I knew I had another gear and it was a much more enjoyable 100m than the 800m when I was willing the line to come!

At the minute I'm still in disbelief. It is something that I have been hoping for so long but now that I have finally done it I can't believe it. I'm pinching myself but it makes all the hard work worthwhile.

For now I'm going to take a few weeks off and then I'll do a proper winter block training with long miles and strength and conditioning work and I'll sneak in a few road races and cross country races over the winter just to build up the strength and then I'll see for next year.

There World Indoors is in Poland in March and I'll see what the forms like. If it is good I would consider going over there 3k but I wouldn't be doing anything shorter until the summer again. I'll work away over the winter and take it from there. I'm looking forward now though to spending a bit of time with Philip and the boys.