Saturday’s spectacular performance in the women’s 100m at the Racers Grand Prix has given Shericka Jackson the firm belief that she’s well on the right trajectory to achieve her goal of 10.6 seconds, set last year.
Jackson, last year’s silver medalist at the 100m and the 200m gold medalist at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, USA, sped to a smashing Meet Record of 10.78 seconds to beast a decent field inside Kingston’s National Stadium.
An aspect of Jackson’s performance that impressed the most was her bullet-like start, which resulted in her striking the lead in her acceleration phase. From then on it was simply a matter of how far she would have won.
“Good that I have been working on the first 30(m), I think that was the weakest part of my race and I think tonight (Saturday) I did really good and I’m just grateful,” was her response to her quick start in the execution of her race.
She added: “We’re now at June and last year June I ran 10.77 at the Jamaica Trials which was later in June, so to run it (10.78) so early in June is such a great feeling.
“I continue to write goals and whenever I achieve them I tick them off and last year one of my goals in the hundred was to run 10.6 and I didn’t achieve that. I went close though and came back and I was like, look I definitely can go faster and I am working harder to go faster so it’s just to stay focused.”
The MVP Track Club standard bearer is eagerly anticipating executing a “solid hundred” at the Jamaican Championships (Trials), as she’s convinced she’s on the right track, based on Saturday’s 10.78 seconds, to achieving one of her goals, 10.6 seconds this season.
But for the immediate future, she’s not overly concerned about improving her personal best of 10.71 seconds.
“Right now I don’t think coach and I are focused on running a personal best, if it comes it comes.”
