By his own admission, Australia's great sprinting hope Rohan Browning is overdue.
Having gone within a whisker at the Tokyo Olympics of becoming only the second Australian to break the 10-second barrier - only to then miss a spot in the 100m final - he is hungry to take the next step.
And heading into the August 19-27 world championships off the best buildup of his career, Browning and his coach Andrew Murphy have the statistical modelling to back it up.
"The metric we've been working on over the past few years is the average of your top five performances," said the 25-year-old.
"You need to be capable of hitting that at a major championship and that has to be good enough to progress through the rounds.
"This year the average of my top five performances is 10.09 or 10.10 or thereabouts (headed by a flying 10.02 run at the national titles in Brisbane in April) and that is an improvement and something I've been whittling down every year."
Six years after the retirement of the incomparable Usain Bolt, track and field is still waiting on the next global superstar of men's sprinting to emerge.
American Fred Kerley is the deserved favourite to win a second straight 100m world crown in Budapest, while Britain's Zharnel Hughes (9.83) and Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala (9.84) top the 2023 world rankings.
Claiming a spot in the final on Monday (AEST) and potentially joining countryman Patrick Johnson in the ultra-exclusive Australian sub-10 second club in the process would constitute major steps forward for Browning.
"The world championships is the seminal moment for this season but they are also an event en route to the Olympics next year," he said.
"Even a few years ago I didn't have the confidence in my body and my own robustness to be able to back up through the rounds.
"I thought I had to run a PB (on any given day) just to get out of the heats.
"As the global event becomes increasingly deep and increasingly competitive I feel as if I've been keeping up.
"I'm going into this championship in the best shape I've ever gone into any championship."
Browning took great benefit from racing against Kerley on home soil during the Australian summer.
Back then his focus was on improving his work out of the blocks and the opening 30 metres of the race.
More recently it's been the final 20 metres.
"It's not easy to run a personal best at a major championship," he said.
"There's a lot of science and a little bit of an art to making sure you're in the right shape and then also really, really executing in those very few fleeting seconds.
"That trend is heading in the right direction."
The opening round of the men's 100m is on early Sunday (AEST) at the new National Athletics Stadium in Budapest.
