NATHAN Douglas is targeting a full assault on the indoor season for the first time in nine years as he bids to be ready for a busy period of international competition.

The Oxford City triple jumper is hoping to compete for Great Britain in three events in 2016 – the IAAF World Indoor Championships, European Championships and the Olympic Games in Rio.

It will be the first time Douglas, 33, has prioritised the indoor season since 2007, when he won silver behind countryman Phillips Idowu at the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham.

He believes it is ideal preparation in his bid to wear a British vest for the first time since the 2014 Commonwealth Games and hopes to begin competing at the end of this month.

Douglas said: “I will be putting the indoor season first, just to get some extra competition.

“I am not going to go crazy.

“At the same time, I have to be very smart with how much I am competing.

“Recovery is just as important.”

Douglas, who has suffered with injuries throughout his career, including a thigh problem which ruled him out of the London 2012 Olympic Games, added: “I have not had a full indoor season since 2007 – it was a long time ago.

“I have trialled indoors a little bit in previous years, but it was about seeing where I was at best.

“Hopefully I am now in a place where I can go for it a bit more.”

Douglas, who set up his own company last year called Jump Your Performance, which specialises in mindset coaching, has made no secret his ultimate aim this year is to qualify for Rio – his third Olympics.

But his attentions first turn to the World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon, on March 17-20.

In order to be automatically selected, Douglas will have to jump the qualifying standard of 17 metres and win the British Indoor Championships at Sheffield on February 27-28.

Douglas, who started his winter training in September, added: “I have to take everything as a step-by-step process.

“It would be foolish for me to say ‘I can do this and that’.

“My first aim is to be able to jump far enough to qualify and I will then look at the next step.”