Fresh off the best year of her career, Dani Samuels has again made a flying start in 2015.
Which is just as well, because the woman who shapes as the biggest obstacle between the Australian and a potential second discus world title - powerhouse Croatian Sandra Perkovic - has hit the ground running too.
With the outdoor season only just getting started in the northern hemisphere, the reigning world and Olympic champion has already shot to the top of the rankings with a huge throw of 70.08m.
Samuels has scarcely been less impressive, bettering the 64m mark in each of her three meets to date - topped by 66.21m earlier this month in Sydney.
"(Perkovic) also threw 70 metres early last year and then did 71.08 later on which was the biggest throw in the world since 1992, so she's obviously in great shape," said Samuels.
"But other people's performances don't really motivate me.
"I tend to be motivated by the want to reach my potential and achieve my goals.
"Seventy metres is always there to motivate me and that's my ultimate goal, as well as winning a medal at the worlds in Beijing and the Rio Olympics next year."
The Sydneysider is a virtual lock to claim a 10th national title this weekend, which would better the longstanding record of Gael Martin.
But the national titles are more a means to an end for Samuels.
After becoming the youngest discus world champ in 2009 at the tender age of 21, Samuels' career flat-lined somewhat for four years before she turned it around in a big way last year.
"You are always aiming to make improvements and, in those years where I didn't perform as well as I wanted to at the major championships, it didn't mean I wasn't doing the work," she said.
"Your improvements come at different times and they're not always as planned as you want them to be.
"We made a lot of good changes after the 2013 world championships in order to throw big last year and win the Commonwealth Games."
Several of the other biggest names in Australian track and field are in much the same boat as Samuels this weekend - having already bettered the qualifying standard for August's world championships in Beijing on several occasions.
Having been hugely frustrated by adverse windy conditions last weekend in Melbourne, Sally Pearson will be champing at the bit to lay down the sort of quick time in the 100m hurdles that will make her leading US and European rivals sit up and take notice.
Australia's other silver medallist from the 2013 world titles in Moscow - javelin queen Kim Mickle - will be looking to avenge a rare loss on home soil when she squares off against two-time Commonwealth champ Sunette Viljoen from South Africa in the javelin final.
Having soared over 1.96m at the national junior championships two weeks ago in Sydney, Commonwealth Games gold medallist Eleanor Patterson could well give the national record of 1.98m a real shake.
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