The thought of becoming a marathon runner makes Wellings nauseous

NSWIS track star Eloise Wellings says she isn’t ready for a potential move to marathon racing, and will instead focus on the 5000-metre and 10,000-metre events up until the 2020 Olympics.

Wellings left this year’s Rio Olympics as one of track and field’s success stories, slashing close to 40 seconds off her PB in the 10,000-metre event, where she finished 10^th in the final.

Convinced that the best is still to come in the 10,000-metre and shorter 5000-metre races, Wellings denied any inclination to switch to Marathon, saying she would focus on her other events at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast too.

“I have no desire to race that far yet,” Wellings said of the marathon to Swoop journalist Amanda Lulham.

“I have a good friend who has done it and listening to her talk about the training makes me feel a little sick.

“I still believe I’m a really good chance in the five and ten at the Commonwealth Games and my best is still to come.”

However before she gets that far down the track, the immediate focus for the recently crowned Australian Road Running Champion will be the ‘Shire Mile’, one of a number of sporting events at the ‘International Beach Festival’ in Cronulla this November.

A creation of pro surfer Sally Fitzgibbons the four-day event will be headlined by a pro surfing event, with the running race one of many additional events, Wellings glad to be racing at home.

“It will just be great to do a race at home,” she said.

You can see Wellings racing the Sydney Shire Mile Run at the International Beach Festival from 7am on Saturday, November 5, 2016.