Spence had focused a Scotland jersey at first of the season and achieved that, having competed on the Diamond League and the Loughborough Worldwide.
However extra was to return for the 23-year-old midwife, who travels throughout from Orkney for competitions and has to steadiness coaching round her shifts.
Orkney sprinter Taylah Spence reckons her season has exceeded all expectations after incomes Commonwealth Video games choice.
Spence was introduced within the 4x100m relay workforce final week and can be on the monitor for her nation in Birmingham.
“I came upon final Wednesday night time, two days earlier than the announcement got here out, so it wasn’t too lengthy to maintain it a secret,” she mentioned.
“With every little thing we’ve achieved as a relay squad, I really feel like we need to be going. It’s at all times one thing while you’re rising up you’ll like to do, to compete at an enormous occasion just like the Commonwealth Video games or the Olympics.
“When it comes to real looking targets it wasn’t one thing on my radar this season; my goal was to get my first Scotland vest. To get that and to be going to the Video games is greater than I anticipated.
“You by no means know while you’re going to be hit by sickness or harm, which scuppered me final season. I bought unwell in the midst of the season and that jeopardised the nice instances I used to be placing out.
“It was good to get these instances on paper this 12 months and show what I’ve at all times thought was in me.”
Spence has been racing alongside fellow north athletes Rebecca Matheson and Alisha Rees, who hail from Keith and Torphins respectively. The trio have competed towards one another at membership stage, however have united beneath the Scotland flag to safe their place on the Commonwealths.
The relay workforce hit the qualifying customary in Might, breaking the nationwide 4x100m relay file in Birmingham at a Diamond League assembly.
The athletics on the Video games can be held in the identical enviornment, the Alexander Stadium – which might be omen for the squad.
“Athletics is sort of a person sport and for years we’ve competed towards one another,” mentioned Spence. “We’re comparable ages and we’ve at all times been on the start-line collectively.
“It’s fairly particular to have the ability to put our abilities collectively and put efficiency out.”
