19th September 2013 11:00
Ohuruogu was the Great Britain captain at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, an honor she took with pride. It was a position of responsibility from which she led from the front.
The women's 400m final found its own place in track and field history, with Ohuruogu producing a storming finish to beat defending champion Amantle Montsho, from Botswana, by 0.004 of a second as she won in 49.41.
It was the closest finish ever at a World Championship in a race longer than the 100m, but for Ohuruogu, who broke the British record at the same time, there was an even greater message in her performance.
Victory saw the Londoner regain a title she had first won in Osaka in 2007, a year after she had become Commonwealth champion in Melbourne and a year before she won Olympic gold in Beijing.
'I hope that people can take comfort from that,' said Ohuruogu this week as she looked back on the drama of last month.
'I have been competing for Britain for 10 years and if you do have some off years - and I have had loads of off years when it did not quite go right - If you are diligent and determined enough, it can come round.
'You can really be successful at the end of that and I hope people can take heart from that. It does not have go right every time.'
Now for the next goal, which takes her to Rio in 2016 and the chance to run in the Olympics again.
Ohuruogu, 29, is on a three-year cycle to the Games and said: 'We are looking to plan for Rio, and now it is all about letting the body rest up a bit.'
But as she heads into that training, she might think back to 12 months ago and what her aims were for 2013. Gold, of course, but the British record was a mark she wanted to achieve, the time of 49.43 that Cathy Cook had set at the Olympics in Los Angeles as far back as 1984 when she won bronze.
It is why it could not have fallen better into place for Ohuruogu than it did in Moscow, she said: 'I am not ever going to say I don't want to win a gold medal but the record is what we were working towards.
'That was our primary goal for the season, I had to make sure I set my standards really high.
'I was fortunate enough to have won a world gold medal back in 2007 and I really had to focus my mind on something which was way beyond my kind of goals.
'I had to set my standard really high, I never really considered there to be much pressure on my shoulders to be honest. I have won a few medals anyway and I did not think there was much outside pressure.'
Now it is looking to that future, but also the legacy she is helping create in East London, over a year on from the Olympic Games just a mile or so from her family home in Stratford.
Her plan over the next two years is to visit all the schools and colleges in the borough to spread the message of what the sport is all about and how London had such a big effect on people and must never be forgotten. There are over 80 and as she says: 'I will do it, however long it takes.'