Whatever happens next, Max Burgin will ensure that he experiences Tokyo this year.
The Record-Breaking 23-year-old has already booked an end-season holiday to detect Japan, a country that he always wanted to see.
Ideally, however, he will do so in his possession with the World Championship medal.
Given its issues in recent years, Burgin is not taking anything before the important UK Athletics Championship of this weekend in Birmingham.
Carefully to move his speed, he is only ready to accept that it is “definitely the best first part of a season I did in a long time”, talking to the BBC Sport.
The signs are really highly promising.
While following the Olympic and World Champion on the line in the London Diamond League, only four people worldwide have grown faster than Burgin this year, when they reduced their personal best by one minute to 42.36 seconds.
The time is within 1.5 seconds of David Rudisha’s 2012 world record, and made him the third fastest British person in history.
It was the latest indication that the Halifax athlete is beginning to highlight its real ability, breaking the world, European and British records as a junior.
Burgin says, “I have a lot of obstacles and not necessarily they moved forward in the way people expected me back, but I think I am more than a lot of challenges of the last five or six years.”
“Finally, I am coming back into the trajectory that I was showing when I was younger and breaking all these records.”
