When Keely Hodgkinson takes to the start line at the UK Athletics Championships this weekend, things will look a little different. The 800m Olympic champion is set to race in the 400m.
It is all part of a larger plan that saw Hodgkinson start her outdoor season at the same distance at the Rome Diamond League at the start of the month, clocking a time of 51.41 seconds.
It was a personal best but it is not the dream, with Hodgkinson noting pre-Rome that she is targeting a sub-50-second run.
Now, set to line-up for the race at the UK Championships against Britain's best, it remains to be seen whether second time is the charm.
"The 400m, for me, is a bit of fun as well as something different," she said.
"I've really thrown myself in the deep end and I'm looking forward to challenging myself in that environment.
"I've always considered myself a 400-800-type athlete.
"I don't think I've shown all my potential in the and I got a bit of a glimpse of what I could do at the Indoor Championships, so I'm really excited to bring that outdoors.
"I'm still very much learning the event. I am still not quite sure how to bring it."
With the 800m still the priority, Hodgkinson is lining up for the shorter distance as a key marker for how quick she can push her first lap.
And with a new British record and personal best of 1:54.33 recorded over 800m just days after her first 400m foray, it is evidentially working.
"Hopefully bringing down that 400m time, it is just going to make that first lap of the 800m feel nice," she added.
"I think it will give us some confidence that over the years people have been like, 'Keeley's got no speed' and I'm like, 'Yes, I do'."
Hodgkinson comes into this season with a sparkle in her eyes after a lingering hamstring injury led to a frustrating 2025 season. She just about made it to the World Championships in September and won 800m bronze, one place behind her training partner and fellow Olympic medallist Georgia Hunter Bell.
But the Wigan athlete immediately got back to winning ways by setting a new 800m indoor world record of 1:54.87 in February.
It means that the possibility of chasing down Jarmila Kratochvilova's outdoor standard of 1:53.28, set in July 1983, remains at the forefront of her mind.
"Obviously, I would love to have that happen on home soil," she said.
"It is not something that you can plan straight away and think, 'Yeah, let's do this'.
"If I happen to come into shape and I think I want to go at it sooner, or if it happens to be a bit later in the season, that could just be how it goes.
"The preparation has gone very well. I'm very happy with where I'm at, building on the indoor season that we've had.
"I have been healthy for a year now and I have not missed a training session, so I'm in a really good place."
The UK Championships are just the first step in a bumper outdoor athletics season on British shores, with the London Diamond League kicking off a summer to remember.
August brings with it the Birmingham 2026 European Championships and Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, while Athlos - a lucrative all-female athletics event bankrolled by Serena Williams' husband Alexis Ohanian - will make its London debut at the StoneX Stadium on September 18.
Hodgkinson hopes that four potentially sold-out events in one summer can prove major athletics events belong in the UK.
"We've gone from having nothing in the UK to four events in one year, which I think is really good, especially two years out from the Olympics," she said.
"Bringing the Diamond League here is great, it is my favourite event. And when you get to speak to Alexis [Ohanian], you'll see how passionate he is about women's sport and the plans he has for the Athlos league, so I look forward to doing that in September and competing in the UK.
"The people that we have and the base that we have, we are in a perfect position right now for British athletics and for pushing the sport out there, so I just hope people take notice."
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