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Eilish: Fans carried me across finish line

- MARK WOODS

EILISH MCCOLGAN polished off a great season by smashing her own European 10k record at the Great Scottish Run in Glasgow.

And she admitted the home support carried her all the way to the finish line.

The Dundonian won the women's 10km in 30 minutes and 18 seconds in the closing act of a campaign that began in February and peaked with her sensational Commonwealth 10,000m gold in Birmingham.

The 31-year-old will jet off on holiday today to unwind from a push that also delivered two European medals in Munich and five British bests.

And she revealed the buzz from her first outing in Scotland since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth was a factor in making one last push.