WA javelin champion Kim Mickle embarks on road to gold WA's Kim Mickle is chasing more javelin medals in 2014. NATIONAL javelin champion Kim Mickle is hoisting tons of iron in November in order to lift a few grams of gold next August. Toiling under heavy weights in a gymnasium is no-one's idea of fun but Mickle knows she will shriek with delight if she attains her goal of erasing Louise Currey's 13-year-old Australian record of 66.80 metres this summer after coming agonisingly close with 66.60m, which earned her a silver medal at the track and field world championships in Moscow in August. Mickle's Moscow breakthrough has encouraged the WAIS scholarship holder to set some lofty ambitions and launch into heavy training for the season ahead. After a few weeks of light pre-season work, she is now in a heavy block of strength training that has her spending more time in the WAIS gym than throwing on the track. "The easy part of the season is actually the competitions," she said. Right now is the nitty gritty, get down and dirty. You wake up every day wishing you hadn't lifted those extra weights, but this is what we do it for. Now is the hard part of the season. Plagued by injuries in recent years, including a cracked rib in the lead-up to the London Olympics, Mickle believes she is now in the shape of her life and looking forward to the Australian domestic season. Her schedule will include the Perth Track Classic in February and the Commonwealth Games selection trials in April. The second round effort Moscow was an eye opener for Mickle. Her second throw of 66.25 briefly put her in the gold medal position, only to have it snatched by the eventual winner, Germany's Christina Obergfoll, with her very next throw. "She (Obergfoll) only had one decent throw of the competition - her second round that knocked me back to silver," she said. I did not realise I was in the lead for a while because the distance took a while to come up on the board and when I saw No.1 alongside my name I was stunned. New Delhi Commonwealth Games silver medallist Mickle is aiming to go one better in Glasgow in July 2014. "What I train for every day is that gold medal," she said. Another silver would be nice but I am definitely going for the gold this time. After Moscow I know I have it in me.