FOR the first time since becoming a professional and being injury-free, Jamaican sprint ace Veronica Campbell Brown ended her season early, in August.

Campbell Brown ended her 2010 competitive season with a 100-metre win at one of her favourites cities.

“Zurich and the Letzigrund Stadium hold a lot of memories for me, actually the “‘old”‘ Letzigrund Stadium,” she wrote in her IAAF on-line diary published yesterday.

Campbell Brown ran a then personal best 10.85 seconds on a rainy and cool Friday afternoon in 2005; 10.89 seconds to win in her first race there since and what turned out to be her final race of the season, edging American Carmelita Jeter, who was credited with the same time, while American Marshevet Hooker was third.

Like most other athletes, Campbell Brown will look forward to next season, which will be highlighted by the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea and said she would spend some time, “laying the groundwork for a few of the ‘off season”‘ projects I will be embarking on once September rolls around”.

The two-time Olympic Games 200m champion and World Championships 100m winner ran sparingly this season as she was left off the list of IAAF Diamond League Ambassadors, but had one of her best seasons as she led the world performance list in both the 100m and 200m.

Campbell Brown clocked a personal best 10.78 seconds to win at the Prefontaine Meet in Eugene Oregon on July 3 after running 21.98 seconds, her second best over the 200m at the Adidas Grand Prix in New York a month earlier.

In her diary, Campbell Brown also welcomed former Kingston College and University of Arkansas long jumper Alain Bailey to her OnTrack management group led by Claude Bryan, as well as American sprinter Porsha Lucas.