DESPITE not doing as well as she had hoped in her historic IAAF Diamond League appearance in Beijing last weekend, national discus record-holder Allison Randall said the experience was a positive one.

Jamaican Randal, who threw a personal best and Olympic B standard 61.21m in March, finished at the back of the field with a best throw of just over 53m, but said the outing was “a huge learning experience.”

Randall was the first Jamaican female to participate in an IAAF Diamond League meeting.

In a post on her social media Facebook page, the 26-year-old American-born athlete who won the National Senior title last year, said she had a lot of work ahead of her as she continued to seek the 62.00m Olympic A qualifying standard and said she planned to “take (her performance) and correct where I fell short. Much work it ahead of me… but I can’t stop, won’t stop.”

Randall, who won the bronze at the Central American and Caribbean Senior Games last year in Puerto Rico, told he Jamaica Observer she planned to compete a few more times before next month’s Olympic Trials, but was yet to confirm her competitions.