The new year will bring with it the latest chapter of Emma Klasen's life but the theme of this next instalment is yet to be decided.
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However, the preceding theme is clear - suspense.
Klasen has gained entry to Sydney University to study secondary education but with the COVID-19 pandemic continually looming over the world, the sprinter could well be based in Tamworth indefinitely.
"I'd love to be in Sydney soonish but I just don't know with covid," Klasen said.
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The runner is also waiting to hear if she has been accepted into the university's elite athlete program.
That in itself, while exciting, could cause a headache for Klasen.
She wants to be a part of the program to fully immerse herself in university life but also wants to continue with her current club.
"I definitely want to stay with the llawong Revesby Workers, that's the club I'm a part of at the moment," she said.
"I want to stick with them but I want to be completely involved with the university life and be a part of their track team - it's just [figuring out] how that will work."
The Calrossy graduate said she's allowed to have an individual coach outside of the elite athlete program and will continue training the Illawong's Michael Dooley.
Klasen has trained under Dooley for the past six years and said he'd helped her immensely.
The majority of that training was done via correspondence with Klasen only joining the Illawong squad for sessions on a couple of occasions.
Each time she trained with the squad she said it was a "different intensity" to doing it alone or with her training partner Liam Gordon - who Klasen said had been great to train alongside the past two years - in Tamworth.
Klasen hoped training with Dooley and the Illawong club in person would help her running go to another level.
"It's definitely going to take a trial period to get with the program when I'm there but hopefully I can meet up with the expectations that will be thrown on me," Klasen said.
"I think having a coach there looking at you, being able to make those quick corrections in the moment and having repetition will be the edge that I haven't had."
Klasen will look to make those improvements ahead of the Australian Juniors in March.
The 100-metre and 200-metre runner is hoping to use the national titles as a springboard toward the World Juniors.
"I haven't run a qualifier yet [for the World Juniors] but if I medal at the nationals, then that's one tick," she said.
"It's a criteria of three, you need to run a qualifier, then medal at nationals and then, I think, run another qualifier to show you're consistent."
Regardless of exactly how 2021 will look, Klasen is ready to throw everything at her athletics career but has a solid backup plan.
Along with studying secondary education, she's considering doing a double degree in either exercise science of sport psychology.
From that, she'd love to become a PE teacher and coach NSW representative athletics teams.