Clare De Salis isn't focused on the Olympics or the Commonwealth Games right now.
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The Canberra-born runner is taking each moment as it comes after getting out of the heats at the Stawell Gift and into the semi-finals, which will be run on Monday.
"Whatever happens from now on, to me it doesn't really matter. I've already done what I came here to do and that's just get out of the heats," De Salis said.
It's the second time De Salis has run in the Stawell Gift, Australia's richest footrace held over the Easter weekend each year, but it's the first time the athlete has made it to the semi-final.
"I think it came as a surprise, because with gift running, it's all handicapped.
"It's not like the Olympics where you can kind of tell who's going to win based on times alone.
"You don't know whether you're going to make it through or not," she said.
With a 6.5 metre handicap, De Salis won her women's gift heat in 14.328 seconds.
But for De Salis, athletics isn't just an individual sport. The 18-year-old has also been able to share her successes with her squad.
"I've never felt like it's an individual sport. I've always felt like I've been part of a team," she said.
Everyone in the squad, coached by Canberra's Debbie Oakman, has made the semi-finals of their event, including Bradley Jones.
Jones will line up for the men's gift semi-finals after coming second in his heat with time of 12.523 seconds from a 6.5 metre handicap.
"I guess celebrations at the moment are quite low key because we haven't finished racing. We can't eat chocolate yet," De Salis said.
Coming up to exams in her first semester at the University of Canberra, where she's working towards a degree in exercise physiology and rehabilitation, De Salis said she had started to get the balance right between running and studying.
Being able to switch focus between training and reading was important when running could be mentally draining.
But right now De Salis is focused on making sure she enjoys competition and isn't distracted by results.
"If you had asked me a couple of years ago what my goals were, I would have definitely said the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games.
"That's a big goal for everyone but I think for me just in the next couple of years, it's just to try and keep improving and to just try and run personal bests."
De Salis isn't intimidated by her competition, because she is still fairly new to gift running and a lot of faces are unfamiliar.
"I may not know some of the girls I'm up against, and I guess that's a good thing in a way," she said.
Alexia Loizou qualified for the semi-finals fastest, in 13.856 seconds.
The semi-finals and finals of the men's and women's gifts at Stawell will be run on Monday.