Jennifer Alen has shrugged off her May 24 collapse as ‘one of those things' and has vowed to come back stronger than ever.Alen was leading with little more than a mile to go when her legs gave out on Church Street, taking her out of the race and leaving Deon Breary to clinch her first ever May 24 title.The Englishwoman said she didn't remember too much about the incident, other than feeling her body ‘giving up on me'.“I'm feeling much better now,” said Alen. “I was kind of gutted about yesterday that I didn't get to finish, but hey, these things happen.“At the hospital they said it was a case of over-exhaustion, I think the heat as well. I was trying to drink lots of fluids throughout the race, and to my knowledge I was hydrated.“As I was coming up Church Street I could just feel my legs get tight, and my whole body just kind of giving up on me, and after that I don't remember, collapsing or anything.”Alen and Breary had pushed each other for much of the race, before Alen broke clear as they neared Front Street. But she said she didn't feel like she had taken her body to its limits.“It didn't feel like I was going that hard during the race,” said Alen. “Myself and Deon, we were running together for the most part of Harbour Road, and then I made a move, I guess at the beginning of Front Street, just after Johnny Barnes, and then coming up Queen Street that was when I was really starting to feel it.“I am a little disappointed, but it's one of those things, and in that race anything can happen, it's a long way and you're fighting with the heat, the hills on the course, so I just put it down to one of those things. It wasn't meant to be my day, so, there is always another time. I don't think it will be the last time I run it.”Alen will now turn her attention to the Island Games in June, when she will be representing Bermuda in the 1500 metres, and she said that far from being distracted by her collapse, she would turn the incident into a positive.“At the end of the day these things happen to a lot of people, you've just got to take it in your stride and be positive, come back stronger and learn from it.”This will be the second time that Alen has competed at the Games. She ran in the 800 metres at the 2007 competition in Rhodes, where she narrowly missed out on a place in the final.