Julien Alfred to contest a longer distance at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix

will be in action at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on Sunday, February 2, 2025, at the TRACK at New Balance in Brighton, Massachusetts.

This time around, she will not be going for the usual 100m or 200m but has decided to test herself over the 300m, where she will compete against her training partner and American Lynna Irby-Jackson.

The race will be her season opener since she last competed at the 2024 Diamond League Meeting final in Brussels, Belgium where she won the 100m.

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Julien last competed in a 300m race at the 2022 Commonwealth College Opener where she set a personal best time of 37.36 seconds and will be out to throw herself in the deep end again.

She has always complained about the 200m and her coach, Edrick Floreal, wants to create a new challenge for her with the hope that she develops a positive attitude towards the distance that she claimed a silver medal at the

However, her attitude is slowly changing despite the few times she doubted herself and lost races when it mattered the most.

“I think, in the nationals, last year (2023)…I think that’s when it really clicked for me, just in the final, just following his (coach) instructions…so I went out there, followed his instructions and I think that’s when it clicked for me,” Julien Alfred told Ato Boldon in an interview in 2024.

“Before that season, my personal best in the 200m was like 22.9 indoors. It followed outdoors when I ran a wind-aided 21.7 at nationals in Texas, around there, it clocked for me that I can be good in the 200m but it’s not golden waves.”

She now starts her season in a unique way, not with the 60m as per usual but her goal will be defending her indoor title before proceeding to the outdoor catalogue where she wants to impress at the in Tokyo, Japan.

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Winning the indoor title at last year’s global event in Glasgow, Scotland set the stage for Julien Alfred to be great and she showed it off at the Paris Olympic Games.

She has made only two appearances at the outdoor World Championships, competing in Eugene, Oregon and Budapest, Hungary.

In Eugene, an inexperienced Julien Alfred was disqualified from the race in the semifinal of the 100m but in Hungary, she seemed to have learnt her lesson the hard way and made it to the final of both the 100m and 200m.

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She finished fourth in the 200m final and fifth in the 100m final and this year, she wants to go one place better.