Inside Keely Hodgkinson’s elite training group: South African sprint climbs and twice-daily sessions

Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows have created a training culture that has fostered a remarkable wider story.

From coaching locally near their Wigan home, the group has steadily grown to attract people from places like Chester, Huddersfield and Preston .

Painter feels a paternal responsibility to his athletes and reasons that the biggest thing he can do for athletes in such a gruelling sport is make it fun.

Keely Hodgkinson will challenge the world record of 1min 53.28 sec set by Jarmila Kratochvilova in 1983 .

She defied the British team doctor's notes by racing in the European Championship final in June with a virus.

Hodgkinson and Meadows gave their training group a name earlier this year - “people kept asking and we couldn’t keep calling it Trev and Jen’s” - and so the M11 Track Club was born.

Georgia Bell , who will run the 1500 m in Paris , has won a European silver medal and run times in the top five in the British all-time list at both 800m and 1500 m.

“What Georgia has done is beyond our wildest dreams,” says Meadows .