“I really enjoyed doing the relay over 1km last year, but I have missed the longer women’s race.
“I have cut myself a bit of slack post-Olympics but I really want to start testing myself again and Edinburgh is the perfect place to start doing that.
“It is the nicest one to stretch the legs out, burn the lungs a little bit and start pushing harder over difficult terrain to get ready for the track season.”
Laura Muir, who is entering the mixed 4x1km race at Holyrood, will captain the British team, fresh from breaking the British 5,000m indoor record in Glasgow on Wednesday.
“I am sure Laura is buzzing because it was pretty impressive – it was a great solo running performance,” Twell added.
“In 2010 when I raced 4:02 [over 1500m], I also ran 14:54 [over 5,000m] so I know the two events complement each other nicely. They do work together and you have to be strong anaerobically as well as aerobically.”
British team
Senior Men
Ben Connor (coached by Spencer Duval)
Ellis Cross (Mick Woods)
Sir Mo Farah (Alberto Salazar)
Alex George (Paul de-Camps)
Dewi Griffiths (Kevin Evans)
Callum Hawkins (Robert Hawkins)
Charlie Hulson (Steve Vernon)
Mahamed Mahamed (Peter Haynes)
*Jack Martin (David Turnbull)
*Graham Rush
Jonny Taylor (Gordon Surtees)
Andy Vernon (Nic Bideau)
*Replacements for Ross Millington (illness) and Adam Hickey (injury)
Senior Women
Charlotte Arter (James Thie)
Lauren Deadman (Bill Foster)
Claire Duck (Mike Baxter)
Rachel Felton (Christopher Frapwell)
Emily Hosker-Thornhill (Mick Woods)
Jessica Judd (Mick Judd)
Rebecca Murray (Alex Stanton)
Georgina Outten (Andrew Walling)
Beth Potter (Mick Woods)
Gemma Steel (Rob Denmark)
Steph Twell (Mick Woods)
Pippa Woolven (Luke Gunn)
Junior Men
Scott Beattie (Mike Bateman)
Hugo Milner (Chris Woodhouse)
Jonathan Shields
Sam Stevens (Alan Maddocks)
Sol Sweeney (Catriona Helen Tavendale)
Alex Yee (Kenneth Pike)
Junior Women
Phoebe Barker (Richard Owen)
Cari Hughes (Andrew Walling)
Harriet Knowles-Jones (Paul Roden)
Amelia Quirk (Beverly Kitching)
Erin Wallace (Dudley Walker)
Victoria Weir (Simon Anderson)
Mixed 4x1km Relay
James Bowness (William Parker)
Laura Muir (Andy Young)
Charlene Thomas (Aaron Thomas)
James West (George Gandy)